Following the call for papers and visual essays for the By Design and by Disaster Conference 2025, we are excited to publish fresh calls for hands-on workshops and short talks. In its annual conference, since 2013 the Master in Eco-Social Design is bringing together people and organizations from diverse fields such as design, art, sciences, activism, rural–urban development, alternative agricultures, etc. …
hope ~ reclaiming the future
»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 …
Exhibition: HOPE – 24 thesis projects in progress
In the third semester, students of the Master’s programme in Eco-Social Design develop the conceptual, theoretical and practical foundations for their final theses. You are warmly invited to engage with them in the final semester exhibition of the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Get insights into research and experiments. …
28.1.-7.2. Exhibition: VAL DI TORBA – peat extraction in Salurn
From January 28th to February 7th, the public library in Salurn will host an exhibition on peat extraction in South Tyrol. After some parts of this exhibition were previously shown in Bolzano, it now invites visitors to add their perspectives! As part of the Eco-Social Design master thesis by Laisa Cordes, the exhibition offers insight …
Inhabiting Borders
Exhibition of Project 1 – Master of Eco-Social Design during the GOG – Gäste Ospiti Guests Where: Faculty of Design and Art, 4th floor, F BuildingWhen: Friday, 26.01 (from18) opening / Saturday, 27.01 (11–17) The Faculty of Design and Art opens its doors by presenting the semester projects of its courses. Winter Semester 24/25 – …
Oben bleiben: Landwirtschaft und Gesellschaft – Stare a galla: Agricoltura e società
DEDie Vortragsreihe „Oben bleiben. Landwirtschaft und Gesellschaft“ spannt den Bogen vom Gedenkjahr 1525 an den Bauernkrieg in Tirol bis zur aktuellen Situation der Landwirtschaft in Südtirol und Europa, die sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Marktorientierung, Klimawandel und Umweltschutz bewegt. Damals wie heute befindet sich die Landwirtschaft in einer prekären Situation, die bäuerliches Durchhaltevermögen und Widerstand gleichermaßen …
Exhibition & Talks: 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 & Laisa Cordes, Moderation: Kris >< Krois, room D103 (in German language) 15.1.2025, 17:30 – 18:30 Visual Communication for Mobility Transition …
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 …