Challenging reductive frameworks such as universal
modernism, neocolonial narratives, and centre-periphery binaries, this symposium examines the networks, platforms, and assemblages
shaped, negotiated, and contested by the local and transnational actors involved in designing, constructing, manufacturing,
trading, and consumption. What are the enduring legacies of traditional development models? What new dynamics, infrastructures,
and power structures are emerging beyond Eurocentric analytical frames? How do designers, users, communities, and institutions
contribute to the reconfiguration of global and social hierarchies?
Bringing together leading international researchers
in design history, media and cultural studies, fashion studies, and architectural theory, this event explores diverse ways
of understanding design’s role in global development politics across the multi-layered conditions of post-colonial worlds.Please register in advance:
Registration
Programme
9:30am – 9:45am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45am
– 12:30pm
Panel 1 Contemporary Practices of Design and Development
Chair: Heng Zhi,
University of Applied Art Vienna
With: Miao Lu (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Tommy Tse (University
of Amsterdam) Innocent (Ib) Batsani-Ncube (Queen Mary University of London)
11:30am
Response:
Alpay Er (Özyegin University Istanbul)
Panel Discussion
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm
– 5:00pm
Panel 2 Cold War Politics and Histories of design and development
Chair:
Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Art Vienna)
With: Vishal Khandelwal (Harvard University), Bahar
Emgin (Izmir University of Technology), Danielle Charlap (Wolfsonian–Florida International University)
3:45pm
Response: Tanishka Kachru (National Institute of Design, India)
Panel Discussion
4:45pm
- 5:00pm
Closing remarks and End
For detailed programme please visit: https://designanthropology.org/
Design and Development: Histories, Legacies and Futures is an event organised by the
Department of Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, as part of the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF)-funded research project directed by Professor Alison J. Clarke: “Design
Anthropology: Cold War Industrial Design & Development” (Grant DOI
10.55776/PAT4411223). 
