Victor J. Papanek Foundation Symposium: ANTI-DESIGN: "Prescription for Rebellion?"

Paola Antonelli
Senior Curator, Design and Architecture, MoMA

Gerald Bast, Rector, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Alison J. Clarke
Symposium Convenor & Chair
Professor Design History & Theory, University Applied Arts Vienna
Research Director, Victor J. Papanek Foundation

Anthony Dunne
Professor, Design Interactions, Royal College of Art London

Guy Julier

Senior Fellow, Contemporary Design, V&A, London

Jamer Hunt
Director, Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New
School for Design

Felicity D. Scott
Director, Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture,
Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University.

John Thackara
Leading thinker in socially responsible and sustainable design

Can design ?un-design?? Has design the power to disrupt, and agitate?
The first Victor J. Papanek Foundation symposium explores the power of design in generating alternative visions of society; from historical precedence to contemporary initiatives. By 1971, Design For the Real World, Papanek?s best-selling polemic, offered a “Prescription for Rebellion”. It advocated a new critical discourse of social ecology embracing a humanitarian vision: Design put to social use.

 
ANTI-DESIGN: “A Prescription for Rebellion?” brings together leading figures and institutions in the field of design history and practice exploring the legacy and future of radical design, and the relevance of alternative models of design practice and political economy in the 21st century through lively debate and expert insight.

The symposium is a public and free event, but registration is essential.
Registration: victorj.papanekfoundation@uni-ak.ac.at

 
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Programme

Biografies

Paola Antonelli

Senior Curator of Design and Architecture, MoMA,  New York, USA
Victor J. Papanek Foundation Inaugural Lecture 9 November 2011: A History of Violence - Design, Control, and Rebellion.

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design of The Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked since 1994. Through her exhibitions - among them Design and the Elastic Mind in 2008 - teachings and writing, Paola strives to promote a deeper understanding of design's transformative and constructive influence on the world. She is very proud of a recent acquisition into MoMA's Collection: the @ sign. She is working on several exhibition ideas - including the upcoming Talk to Me - and on the book Design Bites, about basic foods taken as examples of outstanding design.

Alison J. Clarke

Symposium Convenor & Chair
Professor Design History & Theory, University Applied Arts Vienna
Research Director, Victor J. Papanek Foundation

Alison is editor of "Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century“ (2010), bringing together key thinkers in the areas of social science and contemporary design. She completed her PhD in anthropology at University College London with Prof. Daniel Miller, and has an MA in History of Design from the Royal College of Art, London. Editor of Home Cultures: Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space and has organized numerous conferences and symposia around material culture including "Interior Insights: Design, Ethnography and the Domestic“ (RCA); "The Death of Taste: Unpicking the Fashion Cycle“ (ICA London/MAK Wien); "Design Anthropology“ (Angewandte, Wien). Alison recently contributed to a ground-breaking documentary series, The Genius of Design (BBC 2010), exploring the social impact of design over the last two centuries.

Anthony Dunne
Professor of Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, London

Title: Critical Design/Anti-Design

Anthony Dunne is professor and head of the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art in London. He studied Industrial Design at the RCA before working at Sony Design in Tokyo. On returning to London he completed a PhD in Computer Related Design at the RCA. He was a founding member of the CRD Research Studio where he worked as a Senior Research Fellow leading EU and industry funded research projects. Anthony was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education in 2009.

Guy Julier

Senior Fellow, Contemporary Design, V&A, London

Guy Julier is the University of Brighton Principal Research Fellow in Contemporary Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Formerly Professor of Design at Leeds Metropolitan University, he has directed several design activist events and was director of "Leeds Live It Share It“, an urban innovation company. His books include "The Culture of Design“ and he is co-editor of "Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice“.

Jamer Hunt
Director, Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New School for Design, New York City, USA

Title: Uncanny Futures: Attraction and Repulsion in Critical Social Design

 
Jamer Hunt collaboratively designs open and flexible programs that respond to emergent cultural conditions. He is the director of the experimental graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons the New School for Design. His practice, Big + Tall Design, combines conceptual, collaborative, and communication design, and he is co-founder of DesignPhiladelphia an initiative to foreground the city as a laboratory for innovative design projects. With MoMA and SEED Magazine he collaborated on and co-hosted MIND08: The Design and Elastic Mind Symposium as well as the project Headspace: On Scent as Design in 2010. He has consulted or worked at Smart Design, frogdesign, WRT, Seventh Generation, and Virtual Beauty. His written work engages with the poetics and politics of the built environment and has been published in various books, journals, and magazines, including I.D. magazine, which published his "Manifesto for Postindustrial Design in 2005“.

Felicity D. Scott
Director, Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University.
Title: “Outlaw Territories”

 
Felicity D. Scott is director of the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University. She is also a founding co-editor of Grey Room, a quarterly journal of architecture, art, media, and politics published quarterly by MIT Press since fall 2000. In addition to publishing numerous articles in journals, magazines, and edited anthologies, her book, "Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism“, was published by MIT Press in 2007, and another book, "Living Archive 7: Ant Farm“, appeared on ACTAR Editorial in May 2008. She recently completed the manuscript for a book entitled on the Austrian émigré architect Bernard Rudofsky, entitled “Cartographies of Drift: Bernard Rudofsky’s Encounters with Modernity.”
 
John Thackara
Leading thinker in socially responsible and sustainable design
Title: After the doomsday machine? True cost design in a restorative economy

 
Described by Business Week as "one of the great voices on sustainability", John Thackara is a writer, speaker, and event producer. He is the author of "In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World“ (MIT Press) among thirteen books, and of a widely read blog at Design Observer about design for a restorative economy. As founder and director of Doors of Perception (Doors), John organizes festivals around the world, at a city-region scale, in which communities imagine sustainable futures and take practical steps to realize them. John studied philosophy, trained as a journalist, worked as a London bus driver, and later was a book publisher and magazine editor in London and Sydney. He was director of research at the Royal College of Art in London, and then from 1993-2000 was director of the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam. John produced seven doors conferences in Amsterdam, and then three, so far, in India. In 2007, he was programme director of Designs of the time (Dott), the social innovation biennial in England. In 2008 he was Commissioner at Cité du Design, the main French design biennial. He is an Associate of The Young Foundation in London; sits on the advisory boards of the Pixelache Festival in Helsinki and the Pecha Kucha Foundation in Tokyo; and is a member of the UK Parliament's Standing Commission on Design. John Thackara lives in France.
www.thackara.com

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