Monday, 8 Feb 2021, 17:00 – 18:30 Several exchange partners of the Faculty of Design and Art present themselves. The focus is on programs of interest for the students of the MA Eco-Social Design, but the event is also relevant for students of the BA in Design and Art, who are looking for Masters programs …
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CARE BEYOND CRISES ∙ By Design or by Disaster Conference 2020
17–19 December 2020 – online and convivial with Niels Hendriks (Dementia lab), Amy Franceschini (Future Farmers), Bianca Elzenbaumer (Alpine Community Economies Lab / Brave New Alps) Andrea Vetter (Laboratory for new economic ideas), Andreas Unteidig (MA Transformationdesign, HbK Brunswickshig), Elke Krasny (exhibition & book: ‘Critical Care – Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet’) and …
Transforming the City by Care
Nel quadro del progetto Transforming the City by Care (TCC), circa 30 studenti del Master in Eco-Social Design collaborano con la Cooperativa Sociale OfficineVispa nel quartiere Don Bosco durante il semestre invernale 2020/21 intorno allo spazio di comunità La Rotonda (all’interno del “Lotto C” dei caseggiati IPES). Il progetto si presenta come approfondimento della collaborazione …
Teaching Position: ‘Objects–Spaces–Services’ in Eco-Social Design
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Objects–Spaces–Services’ co-leading the studio course ‘Project 2’ in Eco-Social Design. Here is the call. Application deadline 16 November 2020, 12:00 a.m. If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. For questions …
Teaching Position: ‘Social Interaction Design’
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced expert for teaching the short seminar ‘Social Interaction Design’. Here is the call. Application deadline 16 October 2020, 12:00 a.m. If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. For questions concerning the MA Eco-Social Design and the …
POSTPONED: By Design or by Disaster: Beyond Crises, 1–4 Oct 2020
It’s a pain. After a summer of preparing, we have to give up for now. Under the just recently decided Covid19-policy of the University, it is practically impossible to do the conference as planned. But this is not the end. We will do the great “festival difuso” as soon as possible, probably in spring 2021. …
Beyond Crisis @ Degrowth Vienna 2020
We got a slot at the Degrowth Vienna 2020 conference – fitting perfectly the focus on “Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation”. There we will share the experiences and outcomes of the Beyond Crisis Conference, and above all, we continue working, learning and extending the network of Transformation Engaged Actors (TEA). Yes, this is the name we …
Beyond Crisis Outcomes & Next Steps
Saskia Hebert called it a „social un-distancing-experience“, and yes, in fact, we experience the conference as a vibrant, empowering and productive coming together – not only as an interesting set of topics and talks. This was only possible through the collaboration of many people (see more here under Danke! Grazie! Thank you!). On this page, …
The Berlin Corona Tower
Proposal by Berlin based studio realities:united for a temporary installation at Berlin’s television tower in times of the Corona pandemic, 2020cc2020 realities:united, Berlin (BY-NC-ND 4.0), based on photograph by David Cyklarz (CC BY 3.0) Send by Dana Giesecke of futurzwei.org
Es ist was es ist. Es wird, was wir draus machen
by Friederike Habermann from the blog an AnsteckendSolidarisch. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Easter Egg 2020
by Kris Krois, based on a sentence by Friederike Habermann: “Es ist was es ist, es wird was wir draus machen” from the blog an AnsteckendSolidarisch. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Beyond Crisis Conference
Online conference, 17-18 April 2020, MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano. A public live stream of the inputs of Friday will be available in our youtube channel shortly before the start at 17:00 (Time zone: CEST / UTC+2h). The documentation page is ready! Beyond Crisis Outcomes & Next Steps Danke! Grazie! Thank you! …
Corona: By dystopic foretaste to utopian momentum?
While writing this I am sitting my kitchen in Bolzano–Bozen, the capital city of the predominantly German-speaking province South Tyrol in northern Italy. The university, where I am heading the Master’s program in Eco-Social Design has been closed, just like all Universities and Schools in Italy. Teaching and learning take place online. I had to …
Johannes Euler: Commons-based social-ecological transformation
Tuesday, 25 Feb 2020, 18:30, unibz, room F0.01 Johannes Euler, Commons Institute The living world is in trouble: Peak everything, climate change, social polarization. The root cause is that we are disconnected with, or even worse: in opposition to, nature, other people and ourselves. What to do about it? A far-reaching transformation of the very …
Supernova Exhibition & Festa!
Exhibition / Esposizione / Ausstellung A Space, some People and lots of IdeasUn Luogo, delle Persone e molto IdeeEin Ort, einige Leute und viele Ideen Venerdì / Friday / Freitag, 17.1., 18:00 – 21:0021:00 SUPERNOVA FESTA!Sabato / Saturday / Samstag, 18.1., 11:00 – 19:00 Faculty for Design & Art, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, F4 (4th …
Teaching Position: ‘Project Funding for Eco-Social Designers’
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced expert for teaching the short seminar ‘Project Funding for Eco-Social Designers’. Here is the call. Application deadline 20th January 2020, 12:00 a.m. If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. For questions concerning the MA Eco-Social Design …
»Strategies for social-ecological transformation« with Kris ><
Wednesday, 18 Dec, 18:30, unibz, C4.01 How can a multitude of complementary changes lead to a “great transformation” within the tight time frame of 15 to 30 years estimated by scientists to avoid the catastrophic decline of life on earth? Which (kind of) collaborations, alliances and institutional arrangements should be strengthened and started? What can …
Invitation to the 1st (Online) Eco-Social Transformation Alumni Network Meeting on May 15th 2020
Invitation to the 1st (Online) Eco-Social Transformation Alumni Network Meeting on May 15th 2020
Amy Franceschini: Presence as Practice
9 dec 2019, 18:30, unibz, C4.06 Amy Franceschini, the founder of Futurefarmers, a group of artists, designers, farmers, and architects with a common interest in creating frameworks of participation that recalibrate our cultural compass. Their work uses various media to enact situations that disassemble habitual apparatus: public policy, urban planning, educational curricula, and public transportation …
BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER 2020 – POSTPONED TO OCTOBER
2-5 April 2020 POSTPONED TO OCTOBERFree University of Bozen–Bolzano, Italy This series of conferences is co-developing with the Master in Eco-Social Design. It is an opportunity for a lively exchange on the creative practices contributing to social-ecological transformations. Both speakers and participants come from diverse fields of practice, ranging from progressive local farmers to internationally acclaimed …
Teaching Position: ‘Objects–Spaces–Services’ in Eco-Social Design
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Objects–Spaces–Services’ co-leading the studio course ‘Project 2’ in Eco-Social Design. Here is the call. Application deadline 13 December 2019, 12:00 a.m. If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. For questions …
2 Thesis Presentations of the MA Eco-Social Design
Thursday, 14 Nov, 16:00, Faculty for Design & Art, unibz, Room F4 Freiraum Lea Luzzi: ConvivialAn interactive tool for ‘co-ideating’ social infrastructure in neighbourhoods Convivial is a participatory game designed to harness citizens’ local knowledge to creatively improve the social infrastructure in their neighbourhoods. It is designed for those who engage in community-driven neighbourhood development, …
Jan-Christoph Zoels »Change agents«
By Design or by Disaster Talk Monday, 4 November 2019, 18:30 unibz, room F0.01 Adapting services to people’s behavioral models Behaviours are guided by individual and collective interpretations of what is possible. Innovative services can facilitate both behavioral and cultural change, by removing barriers to people’s actions, widening their choices and helping them to make …
»Why Eco-Social-Design?« with Kris >< Krois
Wednesday, 23 October 18:30, unibz. F0.01 The multiple crises require fundamental changes. Part of it is the reorientation of professional roles and practices for contributing effectively to the urgently needed social-ecological transformation. Eco-Social Design is responding to this need by cultivating design practices that are transforming the relations among humans and between humans and nature, …
»Utopiaing« with Kris >< Krois
Imagining the desirable and preenacting it to make it happen Tuesday, 8 Oct, 18:30, unibz, F0.01 Apocalyptic fiction, dystopian science fiction, serious reports and publications on multiple crises and worse disasters to come, plus news on terrible things all the time, create an atmosphere of fear, hopelessness and powerlessness. While “smart” futures of tech-driven convenience …