By Design and by Disaster conference 2024: Call for workshops and talks

By Design and by Disaster conference 2024: Call for workshops and talks

Following the call for papers and visual essays for By Design and by Disaster Conference 2024, we are excited to announce calls for hands-on workshops and 7 x 7 talks today.  By Design and by Disaster has been bringing together people and organizations from diverse fields such as design, art, sciences, activism, rural and urban development, etc. since 2013. Taking place in Bolzano–Bozen (Italy) on 11-14 …

By Design and by Disaster Conference & Calls

By Design and by Disaster Conference & Calls

We are glad to announce the upcoming By Design and by Disaster Conference, taking place in Bolzano–Bozen (Italy), 11–14 July 2024. Since 2013 we’ve been bringing together people and organizations from diverse fields such as design, art, sciences, activism, rural and urban development, etc. We offer a lively mix of talks, workshops, walks, exhibitions, paper …

Essay: Transdisciplinary teaching and learning at the Master in Eco-Social Design

Essay: Transdisciplinary teaching and learning at the Master in Eco-Social Design

Elena Giunta of Studio Shift invited me to write a contribution for the book “Design for Social”. I took it as an opportunity to describe and reflect on the teaching/learning in and around the MA Eco-Social Design, our achievements, learnings and challenges. Abstract: The 2-year masters program in Eco-Social Design is a practice-oriented, transformation-engaged and …

”Is it possible to make culture here?”

”Is it possible to make culture here?”

A conversation of students in MA Eco-Social Design and Rosario Talevi with Robida Collective A group of students and teachers of the MA Eco-Social Design travels from Bolzano to the village of Topoló/Topolove – at the border between Italy and Slovenia – to encounter Robida collective, a young association that takes care of the abandoned …

Change Agents: Inter-institutional collaborations in social design 

Change Agents: Inter-institutional collaborations in social design 

Presentation and panel discussion connected to the Erasmus+ funded project Change Agents.  How to establish virtuous collaborations serving the real needs of different communities using design? The project Change Agents explores how to create lasting infrastructures of collaboration between different key social agents and institutional settings in social design education and practice. The project wishes …

Research Assistant – Playground: Designing Visions of Play in a More-than-Human-World

Research Assistant – Playground: Designing Visions of Play in a More-than-Human-World

UNIBZ’s Faculty of Design and Art is seeking a Research Assistant with a track record in design research in the context of eco-social transformation. The research assistant will work within the framework of the project, “Playground: Designing Visions of Play in a More-than-Human World“, funded by UNIBZ’s internal start-up grant. From the outset, this project asks …

Change Agents: Blueprints for Inter-institutional Collaborations in Social Design

Change Agents: Blueprints for Inter-institutional Collaborations in Social Design

ERASMUS+ KA203 – Strategic Partnerships for higher education  Change Agents is a “cooperation partnerships in higher education” funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The project consortium consists of six higher education institutions (MOME, unibz, EKA, UdK, ELISAVA, Shenkar) and two NGOs as associated partners (OfficineVispa in Bozen-Bolzano and Democratic Society in Berlin).  …

Creative Composting – The role of soil in engaging communities, creating daily circularity and activating microorganisms

Creative Composting – The role of soil in engaging communities, creating daily circularity and activating microorganisms

Lecture: 11-12hDate: 6.12.2023Location: BITZ fablab Photo: DIY instructions for Terra Preta In this seminar, Ayumi Matsuzaka will share several community examples of creating Terra Preta Soil substrate in various neighbourhoods of Berlin. Since 2015, the neighbourhood of Eden garden (Berlin-Pankow) has collected kitchen waste and have created a Terra Preta substrate together. The members order …

Winter Wonder Land

Winter Wonder Land

Veronika Hackl (Vienna, Austria) Lecture: 18-19hDate: 20.11.2023Location: F4.01 The public lecture and (internal) workshop “Winter Wonder Land” explores possibilities of using public spaces in the cold season. When we speak about the use of public space and a democratization of the city, we often think of the need for green spaces, shady places to linger, …

Material Talks: Technosoil – The Origin Of The Future Soil

Material Talks: Technosoil – The Origin Of The Future Soil

Lecture: 18-19hDate: 14.11.2023Location: BITZ fablab Photo: Making of TECHNOSOIL popup exhibition. Through a public lecture and (internal) workshop we will learn and experience more about the research of multidisciplinary-designer Davide Balda on the use and study of the earth to create a new sustainable building material that replaces materials such as cement, which production processes …

On Transformative Spatial Practices

On Transformative Spatial Practices

Date: 14.11 2023 – from 14:00-16:00 A Lecture Conversation hosted by Project 3 open for all MA students On transformative Spatial Practices with Daria Habicher – introducing The future of Stilfs–Stelvio (and beyond) Marielle Scharfenberg – presenting A Place to BZ and Martina Dandolo – advancing Italy goes Mietshäusersyndikat. Daria Habicher, born 1993 in Bolzano, …

STRING FIGURES ∞ laboratori e interventi ludici

STRING FIGURES ∞ laboratori e interventi ludici

Domenica, 8.10.23, 15:30-20:00, SundayBolzano Don Bosco → La Rotonda ∞ Via Alessandria, 47B Laboratori & interventi ludici ∞ Playful workshops & interventionsMaster Eco-Social Design & OfficineVispa 15:30Opening & Visita guidata18:00Abitare Stanca: Manifesto per politiche abitative trasformative ∞ Manifesto for Transformative Housing Policies → PDF DE ∞ IT18:30Aperitivo lungo & musica »Questo significa aprirsi a collaborazioni …

Parliament of Sustainable Fashion: Online Conference 08/10

Parliament of Sustainable Fashion: Online Conference 08/10

Globally the fashion industry generates a complex web of environmental and social issues; and while sustainable fashion seems to be on trend, the rate of clothing consumption continues to rise.  The sustainable fashion discourse often upholds capitalist structures and inequality. This is because it benefits the wealthy and links morality to economic status. Industry efforts …

Material Crush x Science Live

Material Crush x Science Live

During the this year’s SCIENCE LIVE, we will introduce you to established materials including our favourite sustainable alternatives from the material library at the Faculty of Design and Art. With the support of Artificial Intelligence, we will explore how to transform local byproducts into future application ideas. Curious how this works? We’ll include a live design session (Fri 19–20h) where you can see how the physical meets the digital!

Teaching Position: Transformative Work as a Livelihood

Teaching Position: Transformative Work as a Livelihood

For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Information Designer & Visual Story Telling’. Here is the call. Application deadline: 01.09.2023, 12:00 a.m. (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure, please email Recruitment Design. For questions concerning the MA Eco-Social Design and the teaching …

Teaching Position: Information Designer & Visual Story Telling

Teaching Position: Information Designer & Visual Story Telling

For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Information Designer & Visual Story Telling’. Here is the call. Application deadline: 11.08.2023, 12:00 a.m. (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure, please email Recruitment Design. For questions concerning the MA Eco-Social Design and the teaching …

Teaching Position: ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ in Eco-Social Design

Teaching Position: ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ in Eco-Social Design

For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ co-leading the ‘Thesis Preparation Project’ in Eco-Social Design. Here is the call. Application deadline: 10.08.2023, 12:00 a.m. (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. For questions concerning the …

STRING FIGURING by design AND by disaster

STRING FIGURING by design AND by disaster

Many know string figures from their childhood. They exist in many cultures. One person stretches a looped cord between their fingers, the next person takes over and crosses the cord in such a way that a pattern is created, which in turn is taken over and changed by another person, and so on. In this …

Exhibiting STRING FIGURES ∞ transforming together

Exhibiting STRING FIGURES ∞ transforming together

End-of summer semester exhibitionFaculty for Design & ArtFr, 9 June 18:00 – 22:00 OpeningSa, 10 June 11:00 – 17:00 »…we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles.«   Donna Haraway In this spirit 12 teams of students of the Master in Eco-Social Design co-create contributions to social-ecological transformations together with diverse …

Terrestrial Cosmologies

Terrestrial Cosmologies

30 May 2023, 18:00 – 20:00unibz, F6 (hybrid, on site presence preferred) Students and teachers–researchers are sharing of the experiences and observations they made in the area of Batman, East Turkey. This excursion is part of the “Erasmus – Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP)” between University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany Fine Arts Academy (Studio Experimentelles …

Isacco Chiaf “Design for social good”

Isacco Chiaf “Design for social good”

How to combine journalism, storytelling and design practices to make an impact Thursday, 18 May, 17:30, hybrid*unibz, F0.01 Isacco Chiaf is an art director and UX designer, with a background in journalism and campaigning. He focuses on design products for good causes. By creating digital content aimed at communicating a variety of socially relevant issues, …

UPCON – Upcycling Convention: 19+20 May

UPCON – Upcycling Convention: 19+20 May

Feel very welcome to this year’s edition of the UPCON – Upcycling Convention in Bressanone/Brixen! This 4th edition comes with a conference on Friday evening, starting from 19:00 at the cultural hotspot ASTRA. After a keynote by Materialnomaden (Vienna) and short talks by Jennifer Aksu (Berlin) and Martin Welker (Berlin) there will be a short discussion …

Open Talk: IM KONTEXT / NEL CONTESTO: Vom Acker auf den Teller? at the Museion with eco-social designers Merve Bektas, Meike Hollnaicher, and agronomist Dr. Jutta Staffler

Open Talk: IM KONTEXT / NEL CONTESTO: Vom Acker auf den Teller? at the Museion with eco-social designers Merve Bektas, Meike Hollnaicher, and agronomist Dr. Jutta Staffler

On May 18, the themes of the PLOT exhibition at MUSEION will be an opportunity to understand the important diversity of fertile humus as a metaphor for sustainable local agriculture and ethically behaving society. In dialogue with the audience and invited speakers from local entities committed to the environment and sustainable agriculture, the public will …