{"id":944,"date":"2024-05-27T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2024\/?page_id=944"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:35:24","slug":"ddcon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/designdisaster.unibz.it\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"By Design and by Disaster Conference 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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10 – 12 July 2024 at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Schlanders-Silandro
13 – 14 July 2024 at Klimacamp Alto Adige, V\u00f6ran-Verano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since their start in 2013,  the annual By Design and by Disaster Conferences have been focussing on social-ecological transformations, and what design and art can contribute along with partners and allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A different sort of conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The conference series has co-developed with the Master in Eco-Social Design<\/a> at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. It offers a mix of inspiring presentations, hands-on workshops, academic tracks, performances, walks, talks and more in a convivial atmosphere with tasty food, music, dancing, sun, mountains, \u2026 The conference gathers transformation-engaged designers and artists, activists, critical scientists, courageous farmers, unconventional social workers and entrepreneurs, commoners and more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More time, more space, more movement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, for the first time, we are collaborating with Klimacamp Alto Adige<\/a> on Saturday and Sunday. The joint venture will feature a keynote by climate activist Indigo Drau and several workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us on Wednesday 10th July, 10:00 at NOI Techpark, Bolzano<\/em> for the Eco Design Award Exhibition with brunch<\/strong>. From Wednesday 10th \u2013 Friday 12th July we will be at BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta, Schlanders\u2013Silandro. <\/em>Check-in at 14:00 with the conference starting at 15:00. The days at BASIS will end with a party on Friday night; on Saturday morning we move to Klimacamp Alto Adige, V\u00f6ran\u2013Verano<\/em> for a joint weekend program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A (dark) reality check<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the first By Design or by Disaster<\/strong> conference in 2013 we wrote \u201cSustainability 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.<\/em>\u201d In other words, transformation is on its way, either by design or disaster<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, 10 years later, it has become brutally evident that even within our privileged global north: the disaster is happening. We have to deal with it, ideally with solidarity and in radically democratic ways (as opposed to through capitalistic or authoritarian pseudo-solutions). To not acknowledge the disaster is na\u00efve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, the updated title of the conference is By Design and<\/em><\/strong> by Disaster. Among other things, this brings more importance to questions of power in transformation. It also forwards the personal and collective challenge to overcome hopelessness. How can we empower each other to cope with the bleakly realistic analysis? And thus, unfold the power and attitude to effectively engage in emancipatory transformations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What kind of power is needed for transformation? What kinds of power must be overcome? What power sustains change? What ways are there to deal with power, and each other to prefigure tomorrow today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Power in Transformation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We are meeting this year to gain an understanding of the diverse dimensions of power that must be considered in relation to social-ecological transformation. We want to clarify how design and art can contribute in moving towards solidary and just power relations among humans and with the more-than-human world. In other words, we consider how to deal with power in movements from capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy towards commons, care, and queerness. How does design and art contribute to these transformations of power? And what about power in the processes and products of design and art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will take off and stay grounded with about 30 papers and visual essays<\/strong> in our academic track, approximately 12-18 hands-on workshops<\/strong>, 5\u00d77 talks<\/strong>, collective tinkering, debates, dancing, the joy of good food, drinks \u2026 and 6 keynotes<\/strong> by Habibi.Works<\/a>, Rosalyn D\u2019Mello<\/a>, Bianca Elzenbaumer<\/a> (Brave New Alps<\/a>), <\/a>Jan Baykara<\/a> (Common Knowledge<\/a>), Indigo and the Citizen Cooperative Obervinschgau\u2013Alta Val Venosta<\/a> \u2013 all clustered in 5 areas: co-creation, pedagogies, decolonise, economies and movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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