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The registration for Nordes 2015, Design Ecologies, is open. Early bird fee until May 5.
http://nordes.org/nordes2015/ <http://nordes.org/nordes2015/>
Besides high quality presentations, worskhops and an exhibition, we are proud over the five great keynote speakers::
Alison Clarke, Professor Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Kate Fletcher, Professor, London College of Fashion
Mugendi K. M’Rithaa, Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Cameron Tonkinwise, Director of Design Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
John Wood, Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths
Alison J. Clarke
"Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir and Other Designs for the Real World"
Alison J. Clarke, Professor of Design History and Theory and Director, Victor Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, trained at the Royal College of Art and V&A Museum, London, before gaining her doctorate inHome Cultures: Journal of Design Architecture and Domestic Space, author of Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century and Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (made into an Emmy-nominated documentary). She is presently director of a major Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project ‘Émigré Cultural Networks & the Founding of Social Design’ (2013-2016), and has been a regular media contributor including the award-winning series The Genius of Design (BBC). Alison is presently completing a monograph for MIT Press titled Designer for the Real World: Victor Papanek and 1970s Design Activism and recently co-curated a design exhibition of the same theme titled How Things Don’t Work with Fiona Raby and Jamer Hunt at the Sheila Johnson Design Center, Parsons New School of Design, NYC.
Mugendi K. M’Rithaa
"Climate Change: a designerly perspective from The South"
Industrial Designer, Educator and Researcher
https://twitter.com/MugendiM
Prof Mugendi K. M'Rithaa is an industrial designer, educator and researcher at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He holds postgraduate qualifications in Industrial Design, Higher Education, and Universal Design. He is passionate about various expressions of socially (responsive and) responsible design, including Participatory Design; Universal Design; and Design for Sustainability. Mugendi has a special interest in the pivotal role of design in advancing the developmental agenda on the African continent. He is associated with a number of international networks focusing on design within industrially developing/majority world contexts, and is currently serving a second term on the executive board of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid).
Cameron Tonkinwise
"Design for Cosmopolitan Localism in an Era of Xenophobia"
Cameron Tonkinwise is the Director of Design Studies at the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He also directs the School of Design's Doctoral research program which aims to bring practice-based design research to task of transitioning our societies toward more sustainable futures. Cameron has a background in philosophy and continues to research what designers can learn from philosophies of making, material culture studies and sociologies of technology. Much of his research focuses on the design of systems that lower societal materials intensity, primarily by decoupling use and ownership - in other words, systems of shared use.
John Wood
"Designing Beyond Names, Codes, Forms and Signs
John is currently Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths, University of London. In the early 1970s, his interest in environmental issues led him away from his art studio and inspired him to invent several new solar energy systems. He then became Deputy Head of Fine Art at Goldsmiths (1978-1988), after which he developed several radical degree programmes in design. His (2005) masters programme in ‘Design Futures’ invited graduates to ‘re-design design’ as a self-reflexive, comprehensive and integrated framework that will enable them to catalyse positive change. This work grew into an AHRC/EPSRC funded research project and led to more practical developments via the Metadesigners Network. in addition to publishing many articles, papers and chapters, John also co-founded the international ‘Writing-PAD Network’ and is co-editor (with Julia Lockheart) of its ‘Journal of Writing in Creative Practice’. He is currently active in several cult bands (including Deaf School & The Clang Group) with which he records and tours, whenever possible.
Website: http://metadesigners.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/metadesigners
Best wishes
Bo Westerlund
Design Ecologies
Challenging anthropocentrism in the design of sustainable futures
Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Stockholm, Sweden
Sunday 7 – Wednesday 10 June 2015
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