In the third semester, students of the Master’s programme in Eco-Social Design develop the conceptual, theoretical and practical foundations for their final theses. You are warmly invited to engage with them in the final semester exhibition of the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Get insights into research and experiments. …
MA Eco-Social Design
28.1.-7.2. Exhibition: VAL DI TORBA – peat extraction in Salurn
From January 28th to February 7th, the public library in Salurn will host an exhibition on peat extraction in South Tyrol. After some parts of this exhibition were previously shown in Bolzano, it now invites visitors to add their perspectives! As part of the Eco-Social Design master thesis by Laisa Cordes, the exhibition offers insight …
Inhabiting Borders
Exhibition of Project 1 – Master of Eco-Social Design during the GOG – Gäste Ospiti Guests Where: Faculty of Design and Art, 4th floor, F BuildingWhen: Friday, 26.01 (from18) opening / Saturday, 27.01 (11–17) The Faculty of Design and Art opens its doors by presenting the semester projects of its courses. Winter Semester 24/25 – …
calls ~ By Design and by Disaster 2025 on hope
Following the call for papers and visual essays for the By Design and by Disaster Conference 2025, we are excited to publish fresh calls for hands-on workshops and short talks. For workshoppers and short talkers we cover travel expenses, offer simple overnight stay, free entry and food, and in case we gather sufficient sponsoring money, we also might be able to pay …
It’s the economy / culture / power relations, stupid! And commons are the answer.
Open Talk by Friederike HabermannMonday, 18.11., 17:30–19:00 → SlidesMaster in Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, room F6 Apocalypse has been imagined many times in history, but for the first time it can be scientifically substantiated – and the world is doing business as usual. What are the reasons? It’s the economy, stupid: Growth compulsion. …
Val di Torba – an exhibition about peat extraction in South Tyrol
From October 21st to 24th, the traveling exhibition “Val di Torba”, an outcome of the master thesis by Laisa Cordes, will be presented at Waltherhaus in Bolzano. The exhibition focuses on the current challenges of peat mining and explores future perspectives for the Adige valley.
Trafo >< Lecture 1 ⥁ UTOPIAING
The series of Trafo >< Lectures tackles diverse theoretical and practical aspects of emancipatory social-ecological transformation, and what design can contribute to it. In case you have no idea what these strange terms really mean, the lecture serious is for you, because this is exactly what it is trying to answer. Trafo >< Lecture 1: …
Being Moved: Fostering transcultural dialogue through nature-based interactions in South Tyrol
9th May 2024, 10.00 – 16.00: At the “Being Moved” event on Thursday on the Kornplatz (Piazza del Grano) in Bolzano, three just-graduated Eco-social Design students Anna Schuierer, Emma Fourie and Paulina Eberhardt will be presenting their Master’s thesis “Being Moved” as part of the Action Days for Political Education, organised by the Office for …
Essay: Transdisciplinary teaching and learning at the Master in Eco-Social Design
Elena Giunta of Studio Shift invited me to write a contribution for the book “Design for Social”. I took it as an opportunity to describe and reflect on the teaching/learning in and around the MA Eco-Social Design, our achievements, learnings and challenges. Abstract: The 2-year masters program in Eco-Social Design is a practice-oriented, transformation-engaged and …
By Design and by Disaster conference 2024: Call for workshops and talks
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 BASIS Vinschgau Venosta …
By Design and by Disaster Conference & Calls
We are glad to announce the upcoming By Design and by Disaster Conference, taking place in BASIS Vinschgau Venosta on 10 – 14 July 2024 (featuring an optional joint program with Klimacamp Alto Adige on 13 – 14th July in Vöran-Verano). Since 2013 we’ve been bringing together people and organizations from diverse fields such as …
On Transformative Spatial Practices
Date: 14.11 2023 – from 14:00-16:00 A Lecture Conversation hosted by Project 3 open for all MA students On transformative Spatial Practices with Daria Habicher – introducing The future of Stilfs–Stelvio (and beyond) Marielle Scharfenberg – presenting A Place to BZ and Martina Dandolo – advancing Italy goes Mietshäusersyndikat. Daria Habicher, born 1993 in Bolzano, …
Teaching Position: ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ in Eco-Social Design
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ co-leading the ‘Thesis Preparation Project’ in Eco-Social Design. Here is the call. Application deadline: 10.08.2023, 12:00 a.m. (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. For questions concerning the …
STRING FIGURING by design AND by disaster
Many know string figures from their childhood. They exist in many cultures. One person stretches a looped cord between their fingers, the next person takes over and crosses the cord in such a way that a pattern is created, which in turn is taken over and changed by another person, and so on. In this …
Exhibiting STRING FIGURES ∞ transforming together
End-of summer semester exhibitionFaculty for Design & ArtFr, 9 June 18:00 – 22:00 OpeningSa, 10 June 11:00 – 17:00 »…we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles.« Donna Haraway In this spirit 12 teams of students of the Master in Eco-Social Design co-create contributions to social-ecological transformations together with diverse …
Terrestrial Cosmologies
30 May 2023, 18:00 – 20:00unibz, F6 (hybrid, on site presence preferred) Students and teachers–researchers are sharing of the experiences and observations they made in the area of Batman, East Turkey. This excursion is part of the “Erasmus – Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP)” between University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany Fine Arts Academy (Studio Experimentelles …
The Brightmoore Maker Space, Detroit – Building a Creative Community
unibz, MA Eco-Social Design, Atelier F4.012 May 2023 at 17:30 to 19:00, CEST Nick Tobier, UTOPIA TOOLBOX USAStamps School of Art&Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Due to the collapsing car industry in the 80es, Detroit lost almost half of its population and became a failed city. The BRIGHTMOOR MAKER SPACE contributes to an impressing …
Open Call: Junior Researcher at the Competence Centre for Sustainability
Open call for a 3-year junior university researcher (fixed-term contract, RTDa) at the Competence Centre for Economical, Ecological and Social Sustainability at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, dedicated to “Participatory design and visual narration to inspire and enable more solidary and sustainable modes of production and living”. Deadline for applications: January 30th at 12:00 PM …
Open Call: Research Assistant for ‘BIODESIGN’ Project
Open call for a 12-month Research Assistant Position (assegnista di ricerca / Forschungsassistent*in) at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, dedicated to “BIODESIGN – Exploring the Educational Practice of Growing Biomaterials for Sustainable Design”. Deadline for applications: January 31st at 12:00 PM (noon)Starting around April 2023 The project focuses …
Proceedings of the Care Beyond Crisis conference
By Design or by Disaster is the title of a series of conferences co-developing with the Master in Eco-Social Design at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, Italy. 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 …
A place to B(z) – Christmas Walk
Let‘s connect the city! Join us in a Christmas-Walk from Bozen‘s Obstmarkt to the area behind the trainstation. There will be live music throughout the walk and a small concert with Glühwein at the area.
We start at on Saturday, 17.12, at 14:00h in Obstmarkt and walk together to the area opposite Via del Macello 19. Live musik by TurboTrööT!
For more information follow A place to B(z).
Activating Underused Spaces – A place to B(z) at EUniverCities in Innsbruck
This event focuses especially on the promotion of collaborations between universities and cities in the EU. For Bolzano we joined with the municipal council of Bolzano, Chiara Rabini, professor for eco-social design Kris Krois and Philipp Rier and Marielle Scharfenberg from A place to B(z). group of people with backgrounds in both administration and project …
Intelligence Beyond the Human_by James Bridle about his new book Ways of Being
Wednesday 30 November, 2:30 pm Open lecture with Q&A streamed from F0.03, unibz, Bolzano–Bozen Online open lecture including a presentation from the author of Ways of Being, a book about AI, non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing, more-than-human relations, published by Penguin Books in the UK in April 2022. The lecture expands on the projects annual …
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[NON] HO TEMPO fest
You never have enough time? Do you want some? We invite you to an event to share your time with others, and others share theirs with you, to do what you cannot do because you are very busy. Where: Kehl’s Club, Via Goethe 42 When: 25-27 November 2022 (Friday 15-18h / Saturday 10-17h / Sunday 13-17h) …
Teaching Position: ‘Cultural Anthropology’
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an engaged teacher/researcher for the coruse in Cultural Anthropology. Here is the call. Application deadline 25 Nov 2022, 12:00 a.m. CET. 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 teaching …