By Design or by Disaster Talk Wednesday, 28. November 2018, 18:30 unibz, room F 0.03 An incitement to radical creativity UTOPIA TOOLBOX is an international art project of people from various professional fields that provides ideas for a conscious designing of a challenging future. How do we really want to live, as individuals, in …
BY DESIGN OR BY DISASTER spring conference 2019
11-14. April 2019 Free University of Bozen–Bolzano with Amy Franceschini / Future Farmers, US Van Bo Le-Mentzel, DE Brave New Alps, IT/UK Matteo Moretti, IT Felix Meyer-Christian / Costa Compagnie, DE Anja Adler & Dominik Wind / Open State, DE and many more. This series of conferences co-develops with the Master in Eco-Social Design at …
Jan-Christoph Zoels »Change agents«
By Design or by Disaster Talk Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 18:30 unibz, room C4.06 Adapting services to people’s behavioral models Behaviours are guided by individual and collective interpretations of what is possible. Innovative services can facilitate both behavioral and cultural change, by removing barriers to people’s actions, widening their choices and helping them to …
MA Eco-Social Design: 2 Thesis Presentations
Thursday, 15. November 2018 Faculty for Design & Art, F4 & C4 14:00, F4: Laura Heym: hinter-land – an interactive audio guide that gives a voice to people who actively shape their living environment in the countryside. The province is a space for the future! 14:45, C4:Sarah Schäfer: Teaming Tools. Reflection.Communication.Change – Shaping social dynamics …
Aart van Bezooijen »Digital Crafts – A New Relationship Between Designers and Materials for More Circular Design«
By Design or by Disaster Talk Monday, 5 November 2018, 18:30 unibz, room F0.03 »Materials are key ingredients to a more sustainable future« Moving towards a circular economy requires a different way of dealing with the valuable resources of our planet. A circular economy does not only involve economics but demands a stronger integration of …
Tom Bieling »Design as Inclusion«
By Design or by Disaster Talk Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 18:30 unibz, room F0.01 »The word disability is, at best, an inappropriate label for a poorly designed world« Tom Bieling, THE ATLANTIC, June 26, 2013 »In the conceptualisation and development of information–communication–technologies as well as in policy making, the needs, experiences and knowledge of socially …
Tues, 5.6., 19:00 Niklaus Troxler: Music is the greatest influence in my work as a designer
Open Talk at Faculty of Design and Art, Free University of Bozen Ι Bolzano, 05 June 2018, 19:00 h, room F0.03 Niklaus Troxler lets music lead his creative work. The Swiss graphic designer is known in particular for his prolific body of posters designed for music festivals and events that are in the collections of …
Tues, 22.5., 10:00 Maurizio Montalti “Material alternatives and our bio-degradable future/s”
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 …
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
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In between you, me and everything we do. What can design do for commons?
In the 2018 edition of the annual conference of the MA Eco-Social Design, we tackled and discussed issues related to the question »What can design do for commons?« – together with international experts and local heroes from diverse backgrounds. The conference was started with the MA Eco-social Design project exhibition opening, in which over …
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt: SEEING, SKETCHING, UNDERSTANDING: qualitative research in urban labyrinth
tuesday | 03.04.2018 | 19:00 | unibz f 0.01 Qualitative social research is a creative field. With three examples developed at the Bauhaus-University Weimar (DE), this talk stimulates new ways of exploring cities/societies and shows how to integrate artistic approaches. Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt Frank Eckardt is an urban sociologist and professor at the Bauhaus-Universität …
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 …
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 …
Can we design a good life? Even in the countryside?
In the beginning of November a delegation of the MA Eco-Social Design travelled to South-Germany to be part of the small but charming symposium ‘Stadt.Land.Schluss.’ in Marktoberdorf (Allgäu). Together with around hundred other people of all creative and traditionally not-so-creative fields we listened, discussed, danced, created, ate, exchanged,… – to gain an understanding of if …
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 …