{"id":54,"date":"2023-03-08T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2023-03-23T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:05:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\r\n\t\tclass=\"alignfull full-width-class wp-block-psb-parallax\"\tid='psbParallaxSection-1'\r\n\tdata-attributes='{&quot;cId&quot;:&quot;003b25ff-7&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:0,&quot;background&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:199,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/designdisaster.unibz.it\\\/2023\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/Background_shapes.png&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;background shapes&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Background_shapes&quot;},&quot;overlayColor&quot;:&quot;rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.27)&quot;},&quot;padding&quot;:{&quot;vertical&quot;:&quot;5px&quot;,&quot;horizontal&quot;:&quot;30px&quot;,&quot;side&quot;:2,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;20px&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;30px&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;20px&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;30px&quot;},&quot;className&quot;:&quot;full-width-class&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;verticalAlign&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;textAlign&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;minHeight&quot;:&quot;700px&quot;,&quot;styles&quot;:{&quot;particles&quot;:{&quot;color&quot;:{&quot;r&quot;:255,&quot;g&quot;:255,&quot;b&quot;:255},&quot;movingSpeed&quot;:0.8,&quot;density&quot;:10},&quot;leaf&quot;:{&quot;status&quot;:true,&quot;color&quot;:&quot;#16a34a&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:20},&quot;cube&quot;:{&quot;position&quot;:{&quot;x&quot;:{&quot;desktop&quot;:&quot;47%&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;:&quot;40%&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;:&quot;42%&quot;},&quot;y&quot;:{&quot;desktop&quot;:&quot;45%&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;:&quot;45%&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;:&quot;28%&quot;}},&quot;front&quot;:&quot;#60caf81a&quot;,&quot;back&quot;:&quot;rgba(0, 136, 91, 0.1)&quot;,&quot;top&quot;:&quot;rgba(7, 181, 255, 0.1)&quot;,&quot;bottom&quot;:&quot;rgba(0, 241, 161, 0.1)&quot;,&quot;left&quot;:&quot;rgba(56, 189, 248, 0.1)&quot;,&quot;right&quot;:&quot;rgba(47, 255, 186, 0.1)&quot;,&quot;border&quot;:{&quot;width&quot;:&quot;1px&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;solid&quot;,&quot;color&quot;:&quot;&quot;}},&quot;t4Styles&quot;:{&quot;backgroundColors&quot;:{&quot;upper&quot;:&quot;#f0fdf4&quot;,&quot;lower&quot;:&quot;#dcfce7&quot;}}},&quot;options&quot;:{&quot;isCube&quot;:true},&quot;selectedTheme&quot;:&quot;default&quot;}'\r\n  data-pipecheck='false'\r\n>\r\n  <style>\r\n    \r\n  #psbParallaxSection-1{\r\n    min-height: 700px;\r\n  }\r\n  #psbParallaxSection-1 .psbParallaxSection{\r\n    justify-content: center;\r\n    text-align: center;\r\n    min-height: 700px;\r\n    padding: 5px 30px;\r\n  }\r\n  #psbParallaxSection-1 .psbParallaxImg{\r\n    background: url(https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Background_shapes.png);background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.27);background-position: center center;background-blend-mode: overlay;\r\n  }\r\n  <\/style>\r\n\r\n  <div class='psbParallaxImg' data-speed='0'><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class='psbParallaxSection'>\r\n    \n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is happening?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">String Figures \u221e transforming together \u221e will happen between <strong>29<sup>th<\/sup> March <\/strong>and<strong> 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2023<\/strong>, in the location of the social activation hub <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/basis.space\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BASIS Vinschgau Venosta<\/strong><\/a>. There you will be guided through a lively mix of talks, workshops, walks, exhibitions and paper presentations, while enjoying good food, drinks, music, dance, connection and exchange. See the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/schedule\/\">schedule<\/a><\/strong> for more details.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who is organising it?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">The conference is organised by students and professors of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/next.unibz.it\/de\/faculties\/design-art\/master-eco-social-design\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Masters in Eco-Social Design<\/strong><\/a> (Faculty of Design and Art, Unibz), with the support of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unibz.it\/home\/organisation\/press-event-management\/person\/8532-massimo-eccli\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Massimo Eccli<\/strong><\/a>. It will take place in partnership with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kauz-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KAUZ<\/strong><\/a> (a laboratory for climate justice, work and future) and in collaboration with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/da.bz.it\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Citizen Cooperative Obervinschgau.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" id=\"String-Figures\"><strong>Overview of String Figures \u221e transforming together \u221e<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">String figures are a game in which string is woven between fingers to create patterns and illustrate stories. As Donna Haraway suggests, this can be understood as a way of collaborating, weaving together narratives, and co-writing stories \u00bbto craft conditions for finite flourishing on terra, on earth\u00ab (Donna Haraway, 2016). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">This requires the interplay of many actors, building upon each other,\u202f interconnecting niches, imagining and experimenting with care and commoning, criticising and supporting each other, passing on knowledge and narrations in collective actions, joining struggles and creating momentum for a movement to overcome patriarchy and capitalism, and their devastating exploitation of humans and nature, in a \u00bbprocess of change towards a Good Life for All based on solidarity. It involves a radical transformation of the global mode of living and production as well as of political institutions, norms\/values and the relationship of humans to the living world.\u00ab (ILA Kollektiv, 2019).\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>The conference will be an open space to exchange thoughts across diverse disciplines on forming connections and collectively working<\/strong> <strong>on this transformation.<\/strong> This will happen through workshops, talks, and collaborative activities. Everyone is welcome!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Want to know more? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">In the location of the social activation hub <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/basis.space\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BASIS Vinschgau Venosta<\/strong><\/a>, a former military base in Silandro, <strong>you can participate in activities and exchanges for all senses, hands, hearts, and heads. These will embrace topics such as energy, food, space, activism and multispecies co-existence.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">We explore these themes from the perspective of transformation-engaged designers and related teachers\/researchers at Unibz, a university in the Alps. We invite persons from other fields of work\/research and areas of the world to understand better <strong>what really can and should be done.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Is this conference for me?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">Are you a\u2026 student \/ practitioner \/ researcher, transformation practitioner \/ researcher \/ advocate \/ activist \/ entrepreneur, utopist &amp; realist, academic with a focus on social-ecological transformation, and\/or <strong>human being with an interest in a good life for all?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">In the DoD23 conference, we want to focus on practices and related theories of the outlined transformative interplay. There will be contributions tackling diverse scales, aspects and fields. We refer to design in the widest sense, since <strong>\u00bb<\/strong><strong>Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones<\/strong><strong>\u00ab<\/strong> (Simon, 1996).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DOD_23_arrow.png\" alt=\"hand drawn arrow\" class=\"wp-image-226\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DOD_23_arrow.png 500w, https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DOD_23_arrow-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DOD_23_arrow-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"csbAdvScrollBarCursor":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}