IT WASN’T WRITTEN:
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DESIGNERLY-WAYS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 10am – 7pm
The Museum of Modern Art, Celeste Bartos Theater
4 W 54th St, New York, NY
itwasntwritten.org
In the past decades there has been much discussion about the construction and impact of history. Historians claim to have overcome teleological narratives, moving away from grand narratives and challenging the white-male canon in order to decolonize and diversify.
Histories, however, have not only been constructed from words but also designed in various media in different dimensions. What happens when the past is given a particular form? How do designers interpret historical information and, by doing so, shape our knowledge of the past and its impact on the future?
This symposium focuses on historiographic dimensions of design in both the creation and the reception of history. It aims to discuss how specific knowledge, methods and elements of design are used to create histories, how they differ from each other and from written and oral histories, and how they create different trajectories for the future.
After an introductory keynote, the symposium will be organized in four panels, bringing together invited contributions and papers via an open call. The contributions will analyze the construction and dissemination of historical narratives in visualizations, publications, exhibitions, and software.
PROGRAM
10:00am Welcome & Introduction
MARTINO STIERLI & OLIVER HAUGEN
JULIA MEER & ROBERT LZICAR
11:00am Keynote
CLIVE DILNOT
11:30am Panel “Visualizations”
DANIEL ROSENBERG “Line and Time”
YVONNE ERIKSSON & KAROLINA UGGLA “Re-Cycling Visual Representations of Time”
1:45pm Panel “Publications”
JOHANNA DRUCKER “Designing History”
JEREMY AYNSLEY “Significant Absences: Early Writings on the New Typography”
MICHAEL J. GOLEC “A Page is a Space Where Histories Appear: Design and Race in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices”
3:30pm Panel “Exhibitions”
TEAL TRIGGS “Exhibiting a Politics of Graphic Design History”
JONA PIEHL “Taking Histories Off the Page”
4:45pm Panel “Software”
ORIT HALPERN “Smart Histories”
KATHERINE HEPWORTH “Mapping Treacherous Historical Data: Historiographic Implications of Interaction Design in Culturally Sensitive Digital Histories”
5:45pm Closing Address
ARNE SCHEUERMANN “Learning from Lego: Designing the Affective Staging of Historical Artifacts”
ORGANIZERS
Julia Meer (Humboldt University in Berlin, visiting researcher at the MIT)
Robert Lzicar (Bern University of the Arts HKB)
VENUE
The Celeste Bartos Theater
The Museum of Modern Art
4 West 54th St.
New York, NY 10019
TICKETS
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Best regards,
Robert Lzicar
Berner Fachhochschule / Bern University of Applied Sciences
Hochschule der Künste Bern / Bern University of the Arts
Prof. Robert Lzicar
Head of MA Design
Co-Coordinator of «Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited»
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