Unfolding Design Culture: practical investigations explores possibilities for a new praxis of design and enquiry.
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Unfolding Design Culture: practical investigations explores possibilities for a new praxis of design and enquiry
It asks what might it be for specialists whose work aligns partially or fully with Design Culture Studies (DCS) to actually practice in design? Put differently, how can those who normally undertake analytical research or teach in service mode to design, generate their own forms of creative practice? How might they engage publics differently? And how can they take design interventions beyond standard formats of ‘the project’ and beyond solutionist conventions?
The symposium brings together an international group of researchers, writers, historians, curators and designers who apply their creative skills towards open-ended enquiry. It is conceived to collectively explore how practicing design culture as a post-solutionist sensibility generates zones of mutual uncertainty among actors, including design practitioners, so as to generate new insights, processes and objects.
The event is convened by Guy Julier and Eeva Berglund, professors in the Department of Design at Aalto University. It is supported through the Design Culture Research Group in the Department of Design, Aalto University and additional funding from the department’s Creative Practices and Visibility programmes.
Programme
Thursday 3 September
Disclaimer: this timetable is provisional and subject to change.
Situating design culture as…
Emanuele Quinz, Paris 8 University, EnsadLab-PSL
The research condition: notes on counter-disciplinary practices
Kat Jungnickel, Goldsmiths, University of London
Invisible inventors and DIY design cultures: how (and why) ordinary people make extra-ordinary things
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Nastasia Fomina, Aalto University
Designing conditions for uncomfortable conversations
Nathaly Pinto, Aalto University
Sustaining design culture as practice: making pictograms with indigenous youth otherwise, over time
Ulises Navarro Aguiar, University of Gothenburg
Thinking/practicing DCS by problematizing value
Lucy Kimbell, University of Arts, London
Policy uncertainties and design practices
Ethnographic experimentation and research as invitation
Harun Kaygan, University of Southern Denmark
The inward turn in design: five embodied metaphors for design practice
Emilia Tikka, TikkaStudio, Basel
Design as intercosmological practice. collaborative imaginaries for postcolonial technosciences
Enya Moore, University of Sidney
FieldPress: a mobile printmaking device for relational practice
Elise Simonssen, Aalto University
How can a podcast function as a research tool and a source of data that combines design practice and research?
Xavier Acarín Wieland, Barcelona
The city is a museum, designing collective forms
Friday 4 September
Delphine Rumo, Aalto University
Thinking with soils and rocks – design culture as a practice of material inquiry
Tomas Criado (online), Open University of Catalonia
Probing in the dark: collective speculations in a field of shades
Sini Rinne-Kanto, Paris 8 University
Designing a self-run space: pragmatism, opportunism and reflexivity