[D66] Webinar: Politieke theorie aangaande het scheppen van de Wereld

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

Bron:  Universiteit van Amsterdam
Datum: 26 mei 2021
URL:   https://spui25.nl/programma/the-world-as-project


The World as project - When everything is designed
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Dinsdag 8 jun 2021, 17.00-18.30, Online

In the past, designers created objects. Today, practically everything is 
designed: the climate, processes, refugee camps. But when everything is 
designed, it is high time to stop judging design solely on aesthetic 
criteria.

According to architect and professor of Design Theory Friedrich von 
Borries, we need a political theory of design. Man is forced to design 
the conditions under which he lives. If this happens in such a way that 
options for action are reduced, we are dealing with subjugation. In his 
manifesto The World as Project: A Political Theory of Design, Von 
Borries argues for a design (of survival, society, the self) that evades 
the totalitarian logic of securitization and imagines new forms of 
living together against the ideology of lack of alternatives. He will 
discuss these ideas together with curator Saskia van Stein.


About the speakers

Friedrich von Borries is an architect and since 2009 Professor for 
Design Theory at the HFBK (Hochschule fur bildende Kunste/University of 
Fine Arts), Hamburg. From 2003 to 2009 he run the office raumtaktik in 
Berlin together with Matthias Bottger. In 2008, he was general 
commissioner and curator of the German Contribution to the XI. Venice 
Architectural Biennal. At the HFBK Hamburg and in his Berlin based 
'Projektburo', Von Borries and his team create project into which the 
methods and practices of different disciplines flow, including Design, 
Architecture and Urban Planning, which meet Art, Dance and Theatre, 
Theory of Design, Architecture, Urbanity as well as Media Sciences, 
Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Politics and History.

Saskia van Stein is an independent curator, moderator, and educator with 
an emphasis on design and architecture. Since 2019 she's headmaster of 
the MA entitled 'The Critical Inquiry Lab', a department with artistic 
(design)research at its core. She was Director at Bureau Europa, 
platform for architecture and design, in Maastricht (2013-2019) and a 
curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (now Het Nieuwe 
Instituut) in Rotterdam (2003-2012). She contributes to the development 
of cultural discourse, and she's a board member of multiple advisory 
committees, involved in the several juries and advisory bodies such as 
The Independent School for the City and the architectural journal Oase. 
Besides her work as Head of Department at the Design Academy, she is a 
PhD candidate at the Curatorial Research Community at the Technical 
University of Eindhoven;

In samenwerking met
Jap Sam Books
Goethe-Institut Niederlande

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