Make work work!
By Design or by Disaster Conference, 10-11 March 2017, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
What are existing and emergent Eco-Social Design practices? How do they sustain livelihoods and encourage sustainability transition? DoD17 brings together inspiring practitioners to understand how to do better! Cases, best practices, strategies and ways to develop, manage and maintain Eco-Social Design practices that are sustainable, also economically.
We understand Eco-Social Design as a diverse set of design practices and projects that want to contribute to a much needed transformation of the relations among humans and between humans and nature, in order to move towards more sustainable, non-alienated, resilient, just and equitable futures — both locally and trans-locally. However, in today’s economic and political landscape designers often struggle to keep their Eco-Social Design practices viable.
In this conference we explore what actors and support structures can economically sustain change-oriented design projects as well as long-term Eco-Social practices. We want to discuss this in the light of plausible and desirable futures of work in general — considering key drivers of change like progressing automation, demographic change and migration, put into perspective by alternative programs of progress like post-growth and Eco-Social transition.
Aspects
alternative / emergent practices, collaboration, cooperation, organisation, management, fair business models, cooperative enterprises, social entrepreneurship, funding, fund raising, support structures, new institutional arrangements and alliances, alternative economies, commoning, diversification / mixed income strategies, networking, promotion, daring, trial & error, …
Audiences
Students of design, design practitioners, design researchers, academics with a focus on sustainability-related issues, social enterprises, activists, citizens interested in sustainability
Fee
Included is the the 2-day conference ticket and catering during the breaks.
Students: Free
Teachers and researchers at UniBZ: 50€
Folks with a decent income: 90 €
Accommodation
Some suggestions, sorted by price (from low to high):
- Students Room: We try to organize some students who can host you for free. If you are interested, please contact ecosocial-design-studs16@unibz.it
- Youth Hostels: Bolzano Youth Hostel
- Hotels: Hotel Eisenhut / Cappello di Ferro | Arts Hotel | more Hotels (PDF)
You will get a discount if you say you attend this event.
Getting here
We suggest taking the train to Bolzano, the distances in the town are easily walkable.
Folks who want to come by car should use public parking garages. Finding a parking spot in the city is very hard and not recommended.
Contact
Web
designdisaster.unibz.it | fb.com/designdisaster