»Start this book, or start your thesis, your essay, your talk, your thinking, your design, your gardening, your building, your song, your dance not from fear and enclosure but from richness: now is the time for our hearts to dance. Now is the time to write the poetry of overflowing.« These lines from the introduction …
Visualizing Klimawandel
EN DE ︎IT Exhibition 18.12.2024 – 29.1.2025 Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, Library, 1st Floor Climate Communication Talks 9.1.2025, 17:30 – 18:30 The Role of Information Design in Climate Citizen Assemblies with Marc Zebisch, Sabina Frei und Laisa Cordes 15.1.2025, 17:30 – 18:30 Visual Communication for Mobility Transition with Harald Reiterer (STA) und Michelangelo Lomanaca (Eco-Social …
Emotions Compost – Open Talk by Valentina Karga
Monday 16.12 – 16:30-18:00 Master in Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, C. 4.06 / Drawing Room Valentina Karga’s work operates between art, design, architecture and research. It draws together elements of socially engaged practices and speculative experiments that question existing social and physical infrastructures within the realms of energy, economy, and sustainability. In her …
Blueprints for inter-institutional collaboration in Social Design: Building bridges between academia and civil society
“Nothing is permanent, except change.” In the fast-changing landscape of 21st-century societal, political, and urban transformations, individuals and communities must continuously adapt to evolving challenges. But how can we steer these shifts towards positive outcomes? What conditions can foster constructive change, and how can design thinking, alongside cross-sector collaboration, drive meaningful progress? These are the …
It’s the economy / culture / power relations, stupid! And commons are the answer.
Open Talk by Friederike HabermannMonday, 18.11., 17:30–19:00 → SlidesMaster in Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, room F6 Apocalypse has been imagined many times in history, but for the first time it can be scientifically substantiated – and the world is doing business as usual. What are the reasons? It’s the economy, stupid: Growth compulsion. …
Open Round Table 🐑 imagine the wool futures and ecologies
Open Round Table 🐑 A Look to 2035. A workshop to imagine together the wool futures and ecologies in South Tyrol and beyond.Date: 25.10.2024, Friday 10:00-12:00 As part of the LIFEStockProtect Conference 2024, the research project Feral Wool, within the PNRR-iNEST organizes an open round table “A Look to 2035” which invites a diverse group of stakeholders—politicians, …
Don Bosco Collection
Out of the Ruins. Practices of co-imagination in precarious contextsan open lecture by the Post Disaster Collective. 22.10.2024 17:00-19.00 La Rotonda The “Don Bosco Collection” is the outcome of the first phase of Project (MA Eco-Social Design) 2024-2025. The topic of the course is Inhabiting Borders, and the focus of the first phase was the …
Open Lecture: Federation of Recuperatheques (23.10)
Presentation on the functioning of Reused Material Banks, the role of the Federation of Recuperatheques, the Lansink scale (3R), the life cycle of materials, the shortages of resources, and eco-design. The open lecture is followed by a discussion and Q&A on the Récupérathèques network. Date/Time:Wednesday 23.10. from 4–6 pm Location:Room C4.03unibz – Faculty of Design …
Violent Images – Guest Talks with Regev Nathansohn (21.10) and Monica M. Haller (22.10)
Studio Image (Faculty of Design and Arts / Unibz) is delighted to invite you to two guest talks next week, as part of this semester’s series on the theme ‘Violent Images’.Both talks will be screened in Atelier C.106 at Unibz, or can be attended online via the links provided below. You are all welcome to …
Val di Torba – an exhibition about peat extraction in South Tyrol
From October 21st to 24th, the traveling exhibition “Val di Torba”, an outcome of the master thesis by Laisa Cordes, will be presented at Waltherhaus in Bolzano. The exhibition focuses on the current challenges of peat mining and explores future perspectives for the Adige valley.
N55 / XYZ Cargo Collective: Open Talk and Workshop
We are glad to invite you to the following open talk and workshop organised in collaboration with the Competence Centre for Economic, Ecological and Social Sustainability. Open talk 15.10. – 6 PMN55 – TANGIBLE UTOPIAS An inspiring talk about walking houses, rolling gardens and the blueprint for a better world.by Till Wolfer (N55 / XYZ …
Trafo >< Lecture 1 ⥁ UTOPIAING
The series of Trafo >< Lectures tackles diverse theoretical and practical aspects of emancipatory social-ecological transformation, and what design can contribute to it. In case you have no idea what these strange terms really mean, the lecture serious is for you, because this is exactly what it is trying to answer. Trafo >< Lecture 1: …
Post Disaster Collective open lecture
Project 1 in Eco-Social Design is glad to present Out of the Ruins. Practices of co-imagination in precarious contextsan open lecture by the Post Disaster Collective. 10.10.2024 18:00 F0.03 – POST DISASTER (Gabriele Leo, Gabriella Mastrangelo, Grazia Mappa, Peppe Frisino) is an interdisciplinary collective whose practice intersects spatial, performative and curatorial actions. Their research uses the …
30.08., 17:30: Hope – Objection to the lack of alternatives
italiano ↘︎ Auftaktveranstaltung der 35. Ausgabe der Toblacher Gespräche* 30.08., 17:30, Freie Universität Bozen, Raum F6 17:30 – 18:45 Uhr Vortrag: C’è ancora speranza?! Come affrontare alcune sfide globali. Virna Bussadori 18:45 – 19:00 Uhr Pause mit Erfrischung 19:00 – 20:00 Uhr Gespräch mit dem Publikum: Toblacher Gespräche, Vergangenheit und Zukunft (ohne Anmeldung und Teilnahmegebühr) Die …
Thinking Ahead – Traveling Exhibition of the German Ecodesign Award
The Bundespreis Ecodesign traveling exhibition will stop at the NOI Techpark in Bolzano from 4 July to 1 August 2024. In cooperation with the NOI Techpark, the Faculty of Design and Art at unibz and the Competence Center for Sustainability is curating the award exhibition. Since 2012, the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the …
Register until 3 July → By Design and by Disaster
10–14 July 2024, South Tyrol, Italy → Registration open until 3 July. Free for students and persons with low incomes. More on pricing ↓ and on ↓ accommodation Wednesday to Friday, 10–12 July, at BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta, Schlanders–Silandro [1]Start: Wednesday, 10 July, 15:00, Check-in: 14:00The days at BASIS end with a party of Friday night; on …
South Tyrol’s first Climate Citizens’ Assembly concluded
The Climate Citizen Assembly (CCA) South Tyrol – the Klimabürgerrat / Consiglio dei cittadini per il Clima – held its last meeting on the weekend of 1-2 June 2024. Citizens’ assemblies have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation. They are seen as an instrument of democratization …
AND not OR
For the first By Design or by Disaster [1] conference in 2013 we wrote “Sustainability is unavoidable. It will happen anyway by the interplay of disastrous ecological, social and economic trends and events. But we could take initiatives: we can design and develop this transition in a process of collective decisions and actions.” [2] In other …
MA Eco-Social Design → Project 2: String Figures
The projects will be presented at GOG (Gäste Ospiti Guests)
Faculty for Design and Art, 4th floor.
Opening: Friday, 9 June 2024, 18:00 – 21:00.
Visits: Saturday, 10 June 2024, 11:00 – 17:00.
Workshops
Saturday h 16.00 workshop on fermentation and biodiversity – project “Rundherum” – room C4.06
Being Moved: Fostering transcultural dialogue through nature-based interactions in South Tyrol
9th May 2024, 10.00 – 16.00: At the “Being Moved” event on Thursday on the Kornplatz (Piazza del Grano) in Bolzano, three just-graduated Eco-social Design students Anna Schuierer, Emma Fourie and Paulina Eberhardt will be presenting their Master’s thesis “Being Moved” as part of the Action Days for Political Education, organised by the Office for …
Fashion For Future Bolzano 2024
From 20.–24. April 2024: This year, as part of Fashion Revolution Week, we are focusing on the three pillars of sustainable development. Society can only function well if ecological, economic and social aspects are given equal consideration. We will introduce people and their projects that show how things can be done better, we will talk …
Social Forum sull’Abitare
Dal 18 al 20 aprile, si terrà a Bologna il Social Forum dell’Abitare, iniziativa che vede coinvolte in rete oltre 200 organizzazioni di varia natura da ogni parte dell’Italia con l’obiettivo di promuovere politiche e pratiche per il dirotto all’abitare accessibile e giusto. In vista dell’appuntamento nazionale, sono state organizzate due serate a Bolzano (lunedì …
Culture jamming, Online hoaxes and Tactical Media lecture
Hesso Plattner, culture jammer, tactical media and hoaxer, will give a lecture on his work and then be available for questions. unibz, room C1.05Friday March 22nd, 15:30 Since 2013, the Berlin based artivist collective Peng! as focused on culture jamming, online hoaxes and tactical media. Some of their media stunts include an exit organisation for secret service …
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 …
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 BASIS Vinschgau Venosta …