Dear folks,
Some information about a symposium...and lecture with Pelle Ehn which many
be of interest to people in the New England area.
Best,
Damian White
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Damian F. White
*Head of the Department of History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences, *
<http://www.risd.edu/academics/departments/HPSS/Faculty/Profiles/Damian%20White/>
*Associate Professor of Sociology*
<http://www.risd.edu/academics/departments/HPSS/Faculty/Profiles/Damian%20White/>
Rhode Island School of Design
2 College Street, Providence, RI 02903 USA 434-202-9159 <434-202-9159>
New Book!!!!! Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical
Hybridity
<http://www.amazon.com/Environments-Natures-Social-Theory-Hybridity/dp/0230241042/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441997278&sr=1-1&keywords=damian+white>
Additional info <https://risd.academia.edu/DamianWhite>
*CRITICAL DESIGN CRITICAL FUTURES II: BIG +SMALL, TOP DOWN + BOTTOM UP
RETHINKING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FUTURING*
*Saturday May 7th The Chace Center, RISD Museum*
9:30 am — 11:00 am
Hillary Brown is Principle of New Civil Works and Founder of the City of
New York’s Office of Sustainable Design i
Next Generation Infrastructure: Future-Proofing Infrastructure for the
Anthropocene
Next Generation Infrastructure highlights hopeful examples from around the
world that demonstrate how our complex, interdependent utilities can
support an urbanizing world, subject to carbon constraints and the impacts
of climate change. It shows how critical infrastructure might be designed
to be more efficient, less environmentally damaging, and more resilient,
with crosscutting benefits and lower costs.
*Pelle Ehn (University of Malmo) *
*Design thinking and future making or democratic ecodesign experiments (in
the small)? *
*11:30 am — 1:00 pm*
With design thinking successful entrepreneurs in hubris claim to design,
innovate and make a prosperous and even democratic ”future” for us all. But
what if this is only a dominant ideology and hegemonic power in disguise,
disciplining and eventually threatening our lives? This conversation, with
a dash of melancholia, explores less successful still hopeful situated
counter examples of co-designed "marginal futures made in the small and by
the many". The examples range from creative communities in less favorable
neighborhoods, to maker spaces as genuine collaborative forms of
production, to democracy revitalized through imaginative public engagements
*In Conversation with Damian White, Anne Tate, Charlie Cannon, Claudia
Rebola and Ian Gonsher*
*Thursday May 5th The Chace Center, RISD Museum*
*Pelle Ehn (University of Malmo) *
*Design, Democracy and Work: Exploring the Scandinavian
Participatory Design Tradition*
*in conversation with** Camilo Viveiros (Labor Organizer/George Willy
Center, Pawtucket) and **Elizabeth Dean Herman (DESINE-lab @RISD) *
*6:00 pm — 8:00 pm*
Pelle Ehn has been one of the most important figures in the development of
worker orientated design, participatory planning and democratic
ecodesign in Scandinavia. Author of "Manifesto for a Digital Bauhaus"
(1998) and Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and
Democracy (MIT Press, 2014), he is a professor at the School of Arts and
Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. This talk will explore traditions
of worker orientated design in Scandinavia and reflect on the ways in
which design might still contribute to a more social just workplace.
*Friday May 6th -Saturday May 7th Green Urban Futures *
*Exhibition of Student work Rethinking Green Urbanism Studio RISD Nature
Lab Gallery, Waterman St, Providence, RI 6pm-7pm*
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