Dear Ezio and all,
As an information designer (ID), standing up for Democracy is in my blood if not my DNA. Some of ID's earliest and most venerated practitioners were Marie and Otto Neurath. I commend to you all their work in the service of democracy. They began a a fine tradition which lives on. I might also mention John Heartfield as a Neurath contemporary and a source of inspiration from the design tradition of poster making, most notably through the work of Klaus Stack.
Warm greetings from a not yet faltering but sorely tested democracy.
David
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> On 20 May 2017, at 1:36 am, Ezio Manzini <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> few days ago Luke Feast has kindly presented and commented the Stand Up for Democracy initiative. Now I would like to share with all of you some information on it, to invite everybody who agrees with its spirit to participate and to give indications on how to do it.
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> /Stand Up for Democracy/is an international initiative motivated by the concern for the attack to democracy we are witnessing in several countries in the world. Its first aim is to be a strong political statement of the Design Community against these on-going highly concerning trends. But, facing this crisis, /Stand Up for Democracy/ presents also a constructive side: it aims to create and multiply arenas of conversations and experimentations on how to conceive, develop and connect new possibilities for democracy.
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> This initiative has been started in March 2017 by an Open Letter sent by Ezio Manzini and Victor Margolin to the Design Community. Now it is autonomously moving on and spreading internationally.
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> Everyone who agrees with the Open Letter spirit can participate. The way to do it is simple:
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> (1) Write a "personal statement", organize a "event" and upload them in these two digital forms:
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> * for your personal statement: http://bit.ly/ddp-person <http://bit.ly/ddp-person>
> * for the related event:http://bit.ly/ddp-event <http://bit.ly/ddp-event> <http://bit.ly/ddp-event <http://bit.ly/ddp-event>>
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> (2) spread the Open Letter with your personal statement in your networks, asking for other friends and colleagues to participate in the initiative in the same way.
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> These statements and the information on the related events are collected by DDP Democracy-Design Platform http://www.democracy-design.org <http://www.democracy-design.org/>. DDP is a digital platform that works as the Stand Up for Democracy initiative enabling system, giving the collected statements and events more visibility, coordinating them with other projects and offering other relevant information. DDP has been designed and is coordinated by three of laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano (Design Policy Lab, Density Design and DESIS Lab) and can be considered as their contribution to the Stand Up for Democracy initiative. __
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> The Stand Up for Democracy initiative will last until October 2017 and will have its milestones in some main design-related events that have introduced or will introduce its topics in their programs.The first of these main event already took place and has been at the EAD /Design for Next Conference/, in Rome, where the organizers offered Stand Up for Democracy a space for discussion in the opening day, the12^th April.
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> For the future, several other possibilities are under discussion. Two important ones are already confirmed. They are: the Cumuls Conference, in Kolding-Denmark, at the end of May, and the WDO-World Design Organization Conference in Turin in October 2017.
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> All the best
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> Ezio (and Victor)
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