Interactive Institute och Iaspis presenterar DESIGN ACT i Lissabon
Välkomna till DESlGN ACT-aktiviteter på ExperimentaDesign '09 i Lissabon, Portugal med början 9 september!
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Interactive Institute and Iaspis invites you to an installation, live interviews & seminar at ExperimentaDesign '09.
Seminar participants: Ana Betancour, Otto von Busch, Tor Lindstrand, Helena Mattsson
Moderators: Ramia Mazé, Magnus Ericson
Panel discussion with international guests
Venue: EXD'09 Lounging Space, Palácio Braamcamp, Pátio do Tijolo 25, Lisbon, Portugal
For details and updates on the participants and program: http://www.design-act.se
Installation: 9 September - 8 November
Live interviews: 10 September, 12AM - 8PM
Seminar: Friday 11 September, 2.30 - 8 PM
On-site at ExperimentaDesign, DESIGN ACT invites you to a discussion about socially and politically engaged design. Visit and contribute to: a seminar featuring Swedish practitioners discussing historical and contemporary projects; live interviews during the opening week, and; an installation featuring a participatory archive of project examples where you can collect information and print your own publication. The installed and online archive of DESIGN ACT will be continually updated with media and materials produced from these activities.
How can design materialize ideas that can lead to wider change? Can design reform - or contest - social and political conditions? Where does this take place - in the design studio or on the factory floor, in exhibition settings or on the streets? What are the emerging tactics, outcomes and audiences for such forms of practice?
The DESIGN ACT seminar explores critical roles for designers in society. In Sweden, architecture, fashion and design have historically participated in constructing the ideals - and forms - of the welfare state. Today, practitioners continue to engage in social and societal issues, whether materializing a critique of the status quo, proposing alternatives to reform systems and spaces, or staging participatory design processes and public debates. While too often reduced to questions of form and function, such tendencies expose powerful and political forms of design practice.
Featuring a series of presentations from Swedish designers and a panel session with international guests, the DESIGN ACT seminar at ExperimentaDesign reflects on historical precedents and discusses examples of contemporary practice. Presentations by: Helena Mattsson, on Swedish welfare politics, critique and design; Ana Betancour, on architecture as catalyst for social change; Otto von Busch, on hactivism and participation in fashion design; Tor Lindstrand, on architecture and performance for staging new social interactions.
In the panel session following the presentations, the presenters, international guests and the audience take up the seminar theme in relation to issues in other contexts, disciplines and parts of the world - and, together, reflect on future directions for design.
DESIGN ACT is a project highlighting and discussing contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues. It traces current and historical tendencies towards design as a 'critical practice' that engages ideologically and practically in such/these issues.
DESIGN ACT is initiated and produced by Iaspis in collaboration with the Interactive Institute. Project managers: Magnus Ericson (Iaspis), Ramia Mazé (Interactive Institute). Project coordinator: Sara Teleman. Research assistant: Natasha Llorens. Graphic design: Friendly Matters.
For more information, contact: Ramia Mazé, ramia.maze@tii.se, +46 (0) 70 594 2932
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Interactive Institute är ett experimentellt IT-forskningsinstitut som utmanar traditionella perspektiv och tankesätt genom att kombinera konst, design och ny teknik i forskningsprojekt och strategiska initiativ i samarbete med partners från akademi och näringsliv. Huvudkontoret ligger i Kista utanför Stockholm, och verksamhet bedrivs även i Göteborg, Eskilstuna, Norrköping, Umeå och Piteå. http://www.tii.se
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