Social Design Symposium - Fear of Life. The City as a Habitat to All.
Vienna Design Week 2016
The actual (and not entirely surprising)
political conditions of life in Austria and its neighboring countries is a burning as well as starting point to the planning
of this international symposium. Fear respectively the creation of anxieties has become a much too powerful instrument of
political persuasion. Solidaric processes are undermined if not destroyed, future is discounted: if circumstances do obviously
not improve at least they should not change anymore.
How do notions of innovation come into play in an atmosphere of
re-bordering Europe?
How could artists, how should intellectuals act now? And from where? Should they change the contexts
of their work? Should they start to focus already on much younger generations? Or should they establish safe spaces inside
institutions?
Big questions and maybe the answers could be found in distinct if not even pungent words, in highly precise
and detailed actions, in repeated societal acupunctures in both virtual and analogue spaces?
Speakers:
Ruth
Wodak
Oto Hudec
Barbara Holub
Ton Matton
Angelika Fitz
Kateřina Šedá
Andrew Herscher
Antonio
Cosme
Pawel Althamer
