Viktoria Heinrich / IDRV (AT)
Design Patterns for Future Commons
Friday 23 March / 15:00 – 16:00
Short Biography
Viktoria Heinrich is specialized in product design and design research. She completed her BA in 2014 in Industrial Design at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden and worked as an intern in Eindhoven and Nanjing, China, before joining the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna as a research associate in 2016. At the Institute she was involved in the CityFactory 2016, as well as in the Vienna Biennale exhibition CityFactory: New Work. New Design. in 2017. In 2018 she is co-curating the CityFactory research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries, together with Harald Gruendl. Her recently completed master thesis in design research and theory at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, focused on participatory design in context of the refugee crisis since 2015.
Abstract
While a growing number of designers around are committing themselves to principles such as the Creative Commons, commons are perceived as an avant-garde counter-movement in many areas of life, work and economics. At the same time, the majority of the commons are made without the involvement of professional designers. Despite their long tradition, the possibilities offered by community welfare strategies for a socially and environmentally compatible consumption and production culture are not well known and are even suspicious for many reasons.
In the light of the changing world of labour, the presentation “Design Patterns for Future Commons” radically rethinks design practice by drawing on knowledge culture and forms of interaction within commons. The case studies investigated within the proposed research project include MakerNurse, apertus° AXIOM, WikiHouse, Open Source Bionic Hand, and Faircap Open Water Filter. As they protect and share natural common goods or foster social production, their alternative organisational and economic structures lead to new design principles – identified as “design patterns for future commons.”
Suggested Readings
Weltentwerfen: Eine politische Designtheorie / Friedrich von Borries / 2016
Design, when everybody designs / Ezio Manzini / 2015
Beyond the New / Hella Jongerius, Lousie Schouwenberg / 2015
Tools for the Design Revolution / IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna (Harald Gruendl, Ulrike Haele, Marco Kellhammer, Christina Nägele) / 2014
Statements
„Complex systems are shaped by all the people who use them, and in this new era of collaborative innovation, designers are having to evolve from being the individual authors of objects, or buildings, to being the facilitators of change among large groups of people.”/ John Thackara / In the Buble. Designing in a complex world / 2005
“(…) design of democracy (…) design for democracy (…) design in democracy (…) design as democracy (…)”
/ Victor Margolin, Ezio Manzini / Stand up for Democracy / 2017
“Design is not about products. Design is about relationships.”
/ Hella Jongerius, Louise Schouwenberg / Beyond the New / 2015