From the outset, this project asks how playgrounds might provide an opportunity to bring biodiversity to urban environments. Urbanization and related phenomena, such as changes in land use, the subsequent fragmentation of natural habitats and the degradation of ecosystems more generally, severely threaten biological diversity in urban environments. At the same time, lack of human …
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Registration Extended to 29 April ~ By Design and by Disaster 2025
→ Registration extended to 29 April, 12:00 noon CEST The By Design and by Disaster Conference 2025 explores hope not as naive optimism, but as a collective and empowering practice. In the face of ecological collapse, social injustice, and political crises, we ask: how can we reclaim the future through design and art in Social …
Emotions Compost – Open Talk by Valentina Karga
Monday 16.12 – 16:30-18:00 Master in Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, C. 4.06 / Drawing Room Valentina Karga’s work operates between art, design, architecture and research. It draws together elements of socially engaged practices and speculative experiments that question existing social and physical infrastructures within the realms of energy, economy, and sustainability. In her …
Blueprints for inter-institutional collaboration in Social Design: Building bridges between academia and civil society
“Nothing is permanent, except change.” In the fast-changing landscape of 21st-century societal, political, and urban transformations, individuals and communities must continuously adapt to evolving challenges. But how can we steer these shifts towards positive outcomes? What conditions can foster constructive change, and how can design thinking, alongside cross-sector collaboration, drive meaningful progress? These are the …
Open Round Table 🐑 imagine the wool futures and ecologies
Open Round Table 🐑 A Look to 2035. A workshop to imagine together the wool futures and ecologies in South Tyrol and beyond.Date: 25.10.2024, Friday 10:00-12:00 As part of the LIFEStockProtect Conference 2024, the research project Feral Wool, within the PNRR-iNEST organizes an open round table “A Look to 2035” which invites a diverse group of stakeholders—politicians, …
Don Bosco Collection
Out of the Ruins. Practices of co-imagination in precarious contextsan open lecture by the Post Disaster Collective. 22.10.2024 17:00-19.00 La Rotonda The “Don Bosco Collection” is the outcome of the first phase of Project (MA Eco-Social Design) 2024-2025. The topic of the course is Inhabiting Borders, and the focus of the first phase was the …
Violent Images – Guest Talks with Regev Nathansohn (21.10) and Monica M. Haller (22.10)
Studio Image (Faculty of Design and Arts / Unibz) is delighted to invite you to two guest talks next week, as part of this semester’s series on the theme ‘Violent Images’.Both talks will be screened in Atelier C.106 at Unibz, or can be attended online via the links provided below. You are all welcome to …
Social Forum sull’Abitare
Dal 18 al 20 aprile, si terrà a Bologna il Social Forum dell’Abitare, iniziativa che vede coinvolte in rete oltre 200 organizzazioni di varia natura da ogni parte dell’Italia con l’obiettivo di promuovere politiche e pratiche per il dirotto all’abitare accessibile e giusto. In vista dell’appuntamento nazionale, sono state organizzate due serate a Bolzano (lunedì …
Culture jamming, Online hoaxes and Tactical Media lecture
Hesso Plattner, culture jammer, tactical media and hoaxer, will give a lecture on his work and then be available for questions. unibz, room C1.05Friday March 22nd, 15:30 Since 2013, the Berlin based artivist collective Peng! as focused on culture jamming, online hoaxes and tactical media. Some of their media stunts include an exit organisation for secret service …
”Is it possible to make culture here?”
A conversation of students in MA Eco-Social Design and Rosario Talevi with Robida Collective A group of students and teachers of the MA Eco-Social Design travels from Bolzano to the village of Topoló/Topolove – at the border between Italy and Slovenia – to encounter Robida collective, a young association that takes care of the abandoned …
Change Agents: Inter-institutional collaborations in social design
Presentation and panel discussion connected to the Erasmus+ funded project Change Agents. How to establish virtuous collaborations serving the real needs of different communities using design? The project Change Agents explores how to create lasting infrastructures of collaboration between different key social agents and institutional settings in social design education and practice. The project wishes …
Research Assistant – Playground: Designing Visions of Play in a More-than-Human-World
UNIBZ’s Faculty of Design and Art is seeking a Research Assistant with a track record in design research in the context of eco-social transformation. The research assistant will work within the framework of the project, “Playground: Designing Visions of Play in a More-than-Human World“, funded by UNIBZ’s internal start-up grant. From the outset, this project asks …
Change Agents: Blueprints for Inter-institutional Collaborations in Social Design
ERASMUS+ KA203 – Strategic Partnerships for higher education Change Agents is a “cooperation partnerships in higher education” funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The project consortium consists of six higher education institutions (MOME, unibz, EKA, UdK, ELISAVA, Shenkar) and two NGOs as associated partners (OfficineVispa in Bozen-Bolzano and Democratic Society in Berlin). …
STRING FIGURES ∞ laboratori e interventi ludici
Domenica, 8.10.23, 15:30-20:00, SundayBolzano Don Bosco → La Rotonda ∞ Via Alessandria, 47B Laboratori & interventi ludici ∞ Playful workshops & interventionsMaster Eco-Social Design & OfficineVispa 15:30Opening & Visita guidata18:00Abitare Stanca: Manifesto per politiche abitative trasformative ∞ Manifesto for Transformative Housing Policies → PDF DE ∞ IT18:30Aperitivo lungo & musica »Questo significa aprirsi a collaborazioni …
Open Talk: IM KONTEXT / NEL CONTESTO: Vom Acker auf den Teller? at the Museion with eco-social designers Merve Bektas, Meike Hollnaicher, and agronomist Dr. Jutta Staffler
On May 18, the themes of the PLOT exhibition at MUSEION will be an opportunity to understand the important diversity of fertile humus as a metaphor for sustainable local agriculture and ethically behaving society. In dialogue with the audience and invited speakers from local entities committed to the environment and sustainable agriculture, the public will …
Eco-Social Design at Time Week
Bolzano–Bozen is the capital of time in 2023 and currently holding an international conference. Part of it are Eco-Social Designers with their ongoing projects; Eliza Zimmermann’s and Nicole Faiella Perdomo’s thesis project on Time Interactions for Care (IG), and the 2nd semester project About Time by Clara Vardon, Koen Reerink and Rosario Castro. Here you …
Fashion For Future Bolzano
Social Conference, Materials Exhibition and Interactive Workshops Thinking and acting for more sustainable and fair fashion with a social conference, materials exhibition and interactive workshops in Bolzano, 27.4.—6.5.2023
Open Talk: From Toxic Textile Troubles to Fabulous Fibre Futures by Alexandra Fruhstorfer
28.03.2023, Tuesday, at 17:30, F4.06 Atelier, Unibz. Alexandra Fruhstorfer is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher. In her practice she questions prevalent political and cultural paradigms, while trying to embrace phenomena of accelerated technological and ecological change. Using design as a strategic, yet playful tool she aims to enable more equitable imaginaries for our material culture …
La Dolce Ciclovita per l’Italia at Klimahouse 2023 – Prize-giving ceremony for the In Motion team
A week before the thesis presentations of the March session, the graduating project “La Dolce Ciclovita per l’Italia”, by the In Motion collective (Michelangelo Lamonaca and Vivian Art Rustige), will be awarded by Isola Ursa Institute at the Klimahouse event. The Italian institute, which is composed of professionals from the field of urban and landscape …
What do Landscapes dream of?
The exhibition will be on display at the Tublà da Nives Cultural Centre in Selva from 15.05.2022 until 03.07.2022. Opening hours: Thursday and Friday 4pm-7pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-12pm / 5pm-8pm. Do landscapes dream? With this question, we* want to enter a sensual, living state of consciousness and close our eyes for a moment and …
Semester Inaugural Talk »Hybrid Experiences«, Feb 28th, 4.30pm, Unibz & MS Teams
Dear all, We warmly invite you to the next Semester Inaugural Talk happening on the first day of the new semester: “Hybrid Experiences – Challenging the binary mode of spaces, technology and materials”28/02/2022, 4:30pm, hybrid format: D1.01 & MS Teams Speakers: Elisa Poli, NABA Milano, Hybrid times and the symptoms of architectureFrancesco D’Abbraccio,Krisis Publishing, AI generated …
Invitation to “NOTTERNA“ II – Art walk through peripheries
Saturday, 2. October, 20:00 starting point: in front of Alessandriastraße, 47b On the occasion of the Bolzano Art Week 2021, we curate the second edition of notterna under the motto “Spotlight”. For this theme, artists have submitted existing and also new works that will now be exhibited throughout the evening. The works are intended to …
Seçil Uğur Yavuz: From the body to play design – a body-centric design project
By Design or by Disaster TALK: Tuesday, 9 March, 17:30 Zoom link In design research, there are many methods which provides designers valuable insights during the design process. These insights are generally based on qualitative or quantitative data that is collected by using various tools and probes. When designing interaction, the human body itself can become …
Rivista Casanova – Introducing the Human-sized Community Magazine
End of March 2021, a life-sized community magazine, Rivista Casanova, will be launched in the heart Casanova, a neighbourhood of Bolzano, Italy. Rivista Casanova is a gigantic, analogue community magazine that hopes to offer the citizens of Casanova, Bolzano, a communal space to write and share their own narratives. Although its steel structure is movable, …
Matthew Lee-Smith: Designing Technological Beings_Taking a Non-Human Perspective in Design
Designing Technological Beings: Taking a Non-Human Perspective in Design Online talk: Friday 26th February, 17:00 link Towards the Realm of Materiality – TROMOpening a series of meetings, talks and workshops led by designers and artists to explore, through both the instruments of speculative design and transmedia processes, the oeuvre and the non-existing technologies imagined by …