The Climate Citizen Assembly (CCA) South Tyrol – the Klimabürgerrat / Consiglio dei cittadini per il Clima – held its last meeting on the weekend of 1-2 June 2024. Citizens’ assemblies have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially in the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation. They are seen as an instrument of democratization …
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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 …
Semester Inaugural Talk
“Democracy beyond disciplines: Transdisciplinary means, strategies, and approaches for amplified democratic practices“ Join us on Sept 27th 2020 (5pm) Unibz Aula Magna or via MS Teams // ENG: With the term “democracy”, one might directly associate the representative democratic system with its periodic elections, campaigns, and televised debates. However, democracy can also represent a vast …
Semester Inaugural Talk & Workshop about Digital Commons
Talk, Sept 28th, 4.30pm (Zoom)Workshop, Sept 29th, 9am-5pm (in presence, pre-registration required) Digital Commons – Alternative approach or naive dreaming in times of platform capitalism? The Semester Inaugural Talk and Workshop of the Winter Semester 2020/21 aims at exploring the topic of “Digital Commons”. Commons describe both shared material and immaterial resources amongst the involved …
First Semester Inaugural Talk: ‘The Value of Plastic’
!EVENT TAKES PLACE UPCOMING MONDAY!March 2nd, 4.30 pm, F0.03 Dear students, researchers and professors, This semester start our Faculty introduces a new event designed to foster reflections and discussion for the semester (and beyond). The Semester Inaugural Talks (SI-t), in the future integrated with Semester Inaugural workshop/s, will accompany each semester start and revolve around changing themes. As …
»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 …
Workshop »Sketching Utopia« & Open Lecture by Corinna Sy
The two day workshop »Sketching Utopia – A Societal & Political Approach on Design« deals with the systemic dimensions on design and the concrete concepts of societal value. In times when many parameters that are believed to be safe are moving, heated debates and distributional struggles are waged, known parameters change and common answers are …
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 …
»Infrastructures for Commoning« with Jennifer Schubert
The infrastructural approach helps to understand visible and invisible connections as they appear through digital communication, services or relationships between humans. Therefore the approach is suitable for identifying and strengthening common goods within all factors involved. But how to deal with socio-material infrastructures within design projects? How to build long term infrastructures in times of …
Invitation to Guided Tour »Bolzano as Interface«
The »Interface Design« class of the MA Eco-Social Design warmly invites you to take part in a guided tour through the city center of Bolzano. During the tour, you can explore and test the wide range of interactive projects the Master students realized during the course. At the end of the tour, there will be …
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 …
MA Eco-Social Design starts on October. Apply until 8 July
apply now or never — at least not this year. And help to spread the message to interested people and parties. Read more about the Master in Eco-Social Design on its web page, the latest newsletter, get updates and spread via FB + twitter. Sustainable Greetings Kris >< Krois
TODAY, 19:00: Snark – space making
“snark – space making si occupa di design relazionale, di processi decisionali e di co- progettazione, percorsi partecipati e di comprensione di fenomeni complessi.” What the hell does this mean? Come and find out: By Design or by Disaster TALK: 26.5.2015 19:00 | unibz | F0.03
intense & inspiring GLOCAL DESIGN SPRING 2015
Here are some impression from the Glocal Design Spring 2015 the charming video&interview team edited. More structured videos will follow. . GDS15 was intense, inspiring and a confirmation that with our upcoming Master in Eco-Social Design we are heading in the right direction.
Glocal Design Spring 2015
March 27–28, Bolzano, Italy / transdisciplinary convention on / transformative actions, design & research \ local developments & global contexts / design as a catalyst of change in preparation of the Master in Glocal Design. with \ Christa Müller / Aral Balkan \ Lucas Evers / Doina Petrescu \ Brave New Alps / Armin Bernhard \ Günter …
Dialogabend zur Direkten Demokratie
… der Dialogzyklus zur Direkten Demokratie, zu dem der I. Gesetzgebungsausschuss des Landtags die Bürgerinnen und Bürger einlädt. Ziel ist ein Gesetz zur Volksabstimmung, das von der Bevölkerung mitgeschrieben wird. Der zweite Dialogabend findet heute, Mittwoch, 22. Oktober, statt. 19.30 Uhr, Kulturhaus „Karl Schönherr”, Göflanerstraße 27/b – Schlanders Weitere Dialogabende sind in Sterzing, Neumarkt, Bruneck, …
Wir brauchen etwas Neues!
21.10. | 19:00 | unibz F0.03 | BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER TALK #7 Andreas Riedl: DAFÜR – UND NICHT DAGEGEN! Wir sind für eine Welt, in der nicht der schnelle Profit, sondern das Leben zählt. Wir wollen nicht mehr von den Dingen, die Ursachen der aktuellen Krisen sind. Wir brauchen etwas Neues! Wie so …
28.5. 16:00 Brixen: Klimawandel in der Alpenregion
Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp, Umweltsoziologin, München Klimawandel in der Alpenregion – Wie können Gemeinden aktiv werden? Cordula Kropp ist eine der bekanntesten Umweltsoziologinnen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung stellt sie Ergebnisse von Feldstudien in Bayern, Südtirol und Nordtirol vor. Cordula Kropp orientiert sich in ihrer Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeit konsequent an den Leitbildern einer transformativen …
EUROPA UND DIE FRAGE: WAS HINTER DEN BERGEN LIEGT?
Am 15.April (9-12 Uhr), 16.April (12-15 Uhr) 17.April (16-19 Uhr), 18.April (12-15 Uhr) organisiert blufink im Vorfeld des Festival delle Resistenze – Widerstände einen Moment des Dialogs am Kornplatz in Bozen. Was bedeutet Ihnen Europa? Welche Möglichkeiten sehen Sie darin? Welche Sprache spricht Europa? Welche Orte sind Europa? Gibt es für Sie so etwas wie …
13.5. | 10:00 Bürgerrechtler & Friedensnobelpreisträger Adolfo Perez Esquivel
13.5. | 10:00-12:00 | unibz Campus Brixen Aula Magna Organisiert von Prof. Susanne Elsen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leiter des Friedenszentrums Bozen, Francesco Comina Mehr zu Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Wikipedia)
19.3. Brixen: Das Zeitalter der Knappheit und Ansätze der Bewältigung von unten
19. März 2014 | 16.00 – 18.00 | Raum 2.60 | Campus Brixen Prof. Dr. Isidor Wallimann, Basel und Syracuse DAS ZEITALTER DER KNAPPHEIT ist als Metapher für die Zukunft gedacht, auf die wir heute mit unseren nicht nachhaltigen Verhaltensweisen hinsteuern. Um dramatische Engpässe und Konflikte in der Zukunft zu verhindern, muss heute „vorgesorgt“ und …
Ökosozialer Wandel in Diskurs & Praxis
Im Studium Generale starten Prof. Susanne Elsen (Soziologie) & Prof. Kris Krois (Visuelle Kommunikation und Interaktionsdesign) gerade das Modul “Wachstumswende und ökosoziales Wirtschaften – Zukunft partizipativ gestalten” — eine lebhafte Mischung aus hochkarätigem Diskurs und praktischer Gestaltungsarbeit. Diskutiert werden Themen des ökosozialen Wandels, u.a. im Rahmen von Gastvorlesungen von Prof. Dr. Adelheid Biesecker (Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin), Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp (Umweltsoziologin) …
UTOPIA TOOLBOX
provides and creates tools for a consciuos designing of our future which will be particularly challenging, and demanding creative processes beyond familiar dimensions. It is about desiging the space between people: the political, social, artistic, scientific, economic, philosophical, spiritual, practical space. It is an artproject by people of various professional fields who like to work …