Following the call for papers and visual essays for By Design and by Disaster Conference 2024, we are excited to announce calls for hands-on workshops and 7 x 7 talks today. By Design and by Disaster has been bringing together people and organizations from diverse fields such as design, art, sciences, activism, rural and urban development, etc. since 2013. Taking place in Bolzano–Bozen (Italy) on 11-14 …
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By Design and by Disaster Conference & Calls
We are glad to announce the upcoming By Design and by Disaster Conference, taking place in Bolzano–Bozen (Italy), 11–14 July 2024. Since 2013 we’ve been bringing together people and organizations from diverse fields such as design, art, sciences, activism, rural and urban development, etc. We offer a lively mix of talks, workshops, walks, exhibitions, paper …
EXTENDED call ∞ STRING FIGURES ∞ transforming together
29 March to 2 April 2023 the By Design or by Disaster Conference will take place at BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta in South Tyrol, Italy. Find out more about it in this first announcement. This time we intergrate an academic track and are looking forward to papers and visual essays inspired by the focus STRING FIGURES – …
Call: Workstorming → transformative work for livelihoods → extended to 27 July 2021
How to make a living by hugging trees? How to transform work to change the system? And other questions related to transformative work for livelihoods. Awaiting your inputs in any format (talk, performance, video, …) until 27 July 2021. Send us your → → → labours of love, projects of purpose, works of wonder, collaborations …
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 …
Call: Make Transformation Tangible!
Projects, papers, provocations, products, purgatories, paradises, promises, plans, phantasies, policies, poetries … wanted, related to the topic of our annual conference BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER: Make Transformation Tangible! 11–14 April 2019 With the organization of our conference BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER 2019 in full swing, we’re excited to announce the MemActs*. In this …
Call for Projects and Papers on Design for Commons
Inspiring projects or papers wanted, related to the topic of our annual conference BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER: In between me, you and everything we do. What can design do for commons? 23–25 March 2018 With the organization of our conference BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER 2018 in full swing, we’re excited to announce a …