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"Design as an attitude - fields of action beyond the commercial"
Prof. Ulrike Brückner and Prof. Dr. Bianca Herlo present their latest book. In it, the two design researchers discuss how designers are opening up new fields of action beyond the commercial. Using countless examples from social design, independent art projects, protest actions and cooperative initiatives, they show that design is much more than websites and advertising, editorial and aesthetics. If design is no longer seen exclusively as a service, it can be a powerful tool: in shaping politics and society, the world we live in and the way we live together.
"This book makes you want to get involved, break new ground and not only put your creative energy at the service of your clients, but to start creative interventions together with like-minded people, to give protest form, to tackle a social design project or to launch a neighborhood initiative. Who, if not us creatives, could provide the impetus to think in new ways? And there can no longer be any doubt that the old way of thinking has led us down a dead end ..."
Text: Published by Hermann Schmidt
*) Copies of the book can be purchased on site after the lecture (35 €)
More at:
https://typografie.de/produkt/design-als-haltung/(Opens in a new tab)
Bonus:
A report on "NICE lab 50/50 - Summer School Nairobi 2024":
50/50 means splitting something in half, for example in a deal, a sale or a profit. In our summer school, we thought of the phrase in relation to our everyday lives. What everyday stories does 50/50 tell? NICE Lab 50/50 is a workshop project format at the interface of international education and cultural networking. The NICE Lab 50/50 involved young artists and creatives with a self-taught background from Vivandani, Nairobi, as well as students from the universities of TUK-Nairobi, Kenya and UP-Pretoria, South Africa, and Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany. The material produced in the workshops resulted in a magazine, two A5 booklets, various postcards and pins, combined in a typical Kenyan shopping bag.
*) 10 NICE bags, various postcards and pins will be given away at the end of the lecture series!
More about the project at:
https://sugarscroll.de/work/nice-lab-50-50-nairobi/(Opens in a new tab)
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