Amsterdam based designer Maurizio Montalti will give a lecture “Material alternatives and our bio-degradable future/s” addressing the theme -designing with living systems and organisms-, invited by the projects Copy.Paste.Culture. and Design After Humans-Dystopia is Now. The lecture will start at 10:00 and take place on the 4th floor, room C4.06, in Faculty of Design and …
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Design, Delusion, Desire
The Milano Design Week & the Desire Week at MACAO After around 30 years of working as a designer I visited the notorious Design Week Milano for the first time. I went there, because I was invited to participate in the Desire Week at the cultural center MACAO, together with my colleague Matteo Moretti and …
MA Eco-Social Design: Application until 18 July
Find all information on the web page of the Master in Eco-Social Design. Please spread! By Design or by Disaster ><
Ruben Pater: COUNTERPOWERS
tuesday | 19.12.2017 | 19:00 | unibz C4.01 In times of crises and uncertainty, many designers want to have a positive impact on the world. This is easier said than done. How can socially or politically engaged design exist within the neoliberal order? How do designers make sure their work is not being used to …
4 Thesis Presentations of the MA Eco-Social Design
Thursday, 16.11. | 10:00–13:00 unibz C0 = entrance of the ex-hospital, from the yard behind the mensa Johanna Perret: HOLY SH-T – Auf ein Wörtchen über das stille Örtchen Supervisors: Kris Krois, Karl Emilio Pircher | C0 – Foyer Insa Keilbach: WILD BUNT – Das Permakultur-Camp Supervisors: Kris Krois, Sabina Frei | C0 – Foyer …
conference BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER spring 2018
In spring 2018 the annual conference of the MA Eco-Social Design will take place at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano. The focus will be: In between me, you and everything we do. What can design do for commons? 23–25 March 2018 What are Commons? They are resources/projects/creations that are managed by groups of people, who are …
AIR BAG 1 – a 48 hours project for better air
Can we make a Eco-Social-Design project in 48 hours? Yes we can! Students from the Master in Eco-Social-Design created a navigation tool for new students to cultivate desirable habits for high oxygen (low carbon) food Journey. The outcome is half-bag, half-rucksack with a map of the city of Bolzano printed on it. The goal is …
Holy Shit!
Die Pop-Up Ausstellung HOLY SHIT bringt ein Thema zur Sprache, das sonst eher selten in der Öffentlichkeit auftaucht: Was genau steckt eigentlich hinter dem täglichen Geschäft? Ist Scheiße wirklich scheiße? Und warum ist es wichtig, das Tabu zu brechen und darüber zu sprechen, was genau mit dem Endprodukt unserer Verdauung passiert? HOLY SHIT beleuchtet das …
SILKE HELFRICH: COMMONS LEICHT GEMACHT
Silke Helfrich: Commons leicht gemacht die welt frei, fair und nachhaltig gestalten ein partizipativer vortrag mit silke helfrich commons institut e.v. & commons strategies group montag | 16.10.2017, 19:00 | unibz F0.03 If you don’t understand German or you want to go deeper and into creative practice: On Tuesday and Wednesday we will have a …
Wanted: UI / UX / Viz Designers for Web / Spaces / Social Interaction
At the Faculty for Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano we are looking for Designers in the intersecting fields of Interface Design, Experience Design, Social Interaction Design and Information Visualization playing out in web and/or physical spaces. There are two kind of positions: contract teacher for Interface Design in the MA Eco-Social …
Cultivating Commons by Design
The new annual theme of the MA Eco-Social Design is Commoning?! All students and teachers of the 1st year draw inspiration from the ideas and practices of cultivating Commons – in manifold ways. What are Commons? They are things/resources/projects that are managed by groups of people, who are not owners, but rather co-responsible and more …
New Blog
The blog By Design or by Disaster has been redesigned completely (some things need to be optimized still, but we launch nonetheless – call it perpetual beta ;). The teachers and students of the MA Eco-Social Design will publish here about ongoing activities in and around the Master course, about projects, ideas and issues of design, …
MAKE WORK WORK! By Design or by Disaster Conference, 10-11 March 2017
Make work work! Practices in Eco-social design that are sustainable, also economically with Brave New Alps (IT, Rovereto / UK Leeds), Studio Polpo (UK, Sheffield), Raumlabor (DE, Berlin), Isacco Chiaf (IT, Tourin), Bas van Abel of Fairphone (NL, Utrecht Area / to be confirmed), Friederike Habermann (DE), Armin Bernhard (IT, Obervinschgau) In this conference we explore how …
OPEN Ateliers of the MA Eco-Social Design Fr/Sa 20/21.1.
The MA Eco-Social Design is a transdisciplinary and practice-oriented study course educating designers that aim to move towards more sustainable, resilient and fair futures. Outcomes, developments and futures At the end of each semester we open the doors to show the outcomes, give insights in the development processes and get into conversations on future potentials …
Teach design for tangible interfaces & interactive spaces
We are looking for an excellent designer, who wants to engage in teaching 60 hours of Interface- and User Experience Design for tangible interfaces and interaction in spaces in the Master in Eco-Social Design during summer semester 2017 (End of February – to end of June) at the Faculty of Design & Art, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. We are flexible …
Dimeji Onafuwa, 16.11., 20:30, Unibz
Dimeji Onafuwa currently does his PHD on “Design-Enabled Communities” at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design (Transition Design) On Wednesday, 16.11., 20:30 he talks about Recommoning Re-imagined Futures In Unibz, Master Ateliers, F4 Read more
Fritz Lietsch im DoD TALK > 19.10. 20:30 unibz
Das Dream Team für eine lebenswerte Zukunft: Nachhaltigkeit & Wirtschaftlichkeit Mi 19.10. 20:30, unibz, F0.01 Unternehmen für Mensch und Umwelt, Verantwortung von Führungskräften, Corporate Social Responsability. Da werden viele Unternehmenslenker sofort entgegnen: Wir sind nicht für das undefinierbare Konstrukt „Mensch und Umwelt“ zuständig, sondern zuallererst Anteilseignern und deren Profit verpflichtet! Spätestens bei der Gesellschafter- oder …
Design Lead in studio course Object / Space / Service
Call for interest for leading teaching position in MA Eco-Social Design WS16/17 For the Winter Semester 2016/17 (October 2016 – January 2017), we are looking for an excellent designer to teach in the field Object / Space / Service at the Master program in Eco-Social Design at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free …
Design Lead in studio course Communication / Interaction / Service
Call for interest for leading teaching position in MA Eco-Social Design WS16/17 For the Winter Semester 2016/17 (October 2016 – January 2017), we are looking for an excellent designer to teach in the field Communication / Interaction / Service at the Master program in Eco-Social Design at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free …
Optimistic Grumpiness & other qualities of Transition Design
… and many other beautiful thoughts about a design for transitions towards viable and desirable futures. Watch the video of their talk on the web site of AIGA*. Terry Irwin, Gideon Kossoff and Cameron Tonkinwise present “Transition Design”, a kind of framework they use to understand how design and design education can work towards real …
By Design or by Disaster 2016, 2-7 May @ unibz
Please visit the conference site for more up-to-date information: designdisaster2016.unibz.it I am happy to announce another issue of our conference series tackling Eco-Social Design. The focus of this years conference is ESSEN / ALIMENTARE / FOOD = also the annual topic of the Master in Eco-Social Design. We will have talks and workshops with Ezio …
Mostra / Ausstellung: BITTER ORANGES 11.–28.1. unibz
BITTER ORANGES Ausstellung. Afrikanische Bootsflüchtlinge als Erntearbeiter in Kalabrien. Die Fotoausstellung bietet Einblicke in deren Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen. Sie ist das Ergebnis eines dreijährigen ethnographischen Projektes. Mostra. Profughi africani negli aranceti calabresi. L’esposizione fotografica, risultato di un progetto etnografico triennale, offre uno sguardo sulle condizioni di vita e di lavoro dei profughi. 11. – 28.1.2016 …
HIRING: PRODUCT DESIGNER as Teacher & Researcher (closed)
We are looking for a designer, who wants to engage in eco-social issues by the means of product design, as a teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Design and Art, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. Deadline: December 7. Find the official call here in English, there in Italian and on that page in German language. …
Teach Cultural Anthropology (closed)
We are looking for a an dedicated personality, who wants to engage in teaching Cultural Anthropology to the students of the Master in Eco-Social Design in the summer semester 2015/16 (Feb 29 – June 22) at the Faculty of Design & Arts, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. The teaching in the Master is centered around projects, to …