Trans-local Trafo Team
unibz, HSLU, HFBK, HM, Angewandte

At DDcon25 a lot of students and teachers/researchers in transformation-engaged study courses gather. Let’s use this opportunity to elaborate ideas and actions on organising. How to join forces and mutually support each other? How to share care, knowledge, skills, resources, contacts, tools, channels, …? How to work in truly transformative ways and make a living at the same time? Are there emancipated positions of designing within established logics of employment? How to install related job profiles? How to co-create strong alternatives, through interconnected self-help groups, solidarity economies, support funds, and programs? How to act locally and trans-locally? How to interconnect beyond Europe? Who are our partners and allies? What can we learn from unions? How to formulate shared interests, generate visibility, and power? Which organizational models are promising?
With all these serious efforts, how to cultivate lightness and magic?

We will use our collective intelligence and creativity to collaborate on these questions, and come up with elegant next steps.

»Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.« (Herbert A. Simon). Everyone, who is acting in this sense, is invited to join ~ not only persons with a formal design background.

About 

Students, alumni and teachers/researcher from multiple transformation-engaged study courses are preparing the Pro Action Future Workshop. The working group so far consists of persons from the Master in Eco-Social Design in Lucerne and the one in Bolzano-Bozen, The Class for Experimental Design of the HfbK Hamburg and the Master in Social Change as a Design Challenge of the University of Applied Sciences Munich and the Master in Social Design of the Angewandte Vienna. Participants will all have active roles. In case you want to host a table as moderator, note taker/graphical recorder or give a short input or any other contribution, please write to kris.krois@unibz.it.