Anti-Design: Prescription for Rebellion?

Victor J. Papanek Foundation Symposium: ANTI-DESIGN: “Prescription for Rebellion?”

ORT:
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Symposium
Ausstellungszentrum Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Grashofgasse 3 oder Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Wien

TEILNEHMER:

Paola Antonelli
Senior Curator, Design and Architecture, MoMA

Gerald Bast, Rector, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Alison J. Clarke
Symposium Convenor & Chair
Professor Design History & Theory, University Applied Arts Vienna
Research Director, Victor J. Papanek Foundation

Anthony Dunne
Professor, Design Interactions, Royal College of Art London

Guy Julier
Senior Fellow, Contemporary Design, V&A, London

Jamer Hunt
Director, Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New School for Design

Felicity D. Scott
Director, Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture,
Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University.

John Thackara
Leading thinker in socially responsible and sustainable design

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Can design ?un-design?? Has design the power to disrupt, and agitate?
The first Victor J. Papanek Foundation symposium explores the power of design in generating alternative visions of society; from historical precedence to contemporary initiatives. By 1971, Design For the Real World, Papanek?s best-selling polemic, offered a “Prescription for Rebellion”. It advocated a new critical discourse of social ecology embracing a humanitarian vision: Design put to social use.

ANTI-DESIGN: “A Prescription for Rebellion?” brings together leading figures and institutions in the field of design history and practice exploring the legacy and future of radical design, and the relevance of alternative models of design practice and political economy in the 21st century through lively debate and expert insight.

The symposium is a public and free event, but registration is essential.
Registration: victorj.papanekfoundation@uni-ak.ac.at

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Programme

9 November 2011 19:00

Papanek Foundation Inaugural Lecture

A History of Violence - Design, Control, and Rebellion
Paola Antonelli, MoMA

10 November 2011

13:30
Registration/Refreshments

14:00
Welcome
Gerald Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

14:15
Introduction
Alison J. Clarke, Symposium Convenor & Chair, Professor Design History & Theory, University Applied Arts Vienna, Research Director, Victor J. Papanek Foundation

14:30
Critical Design/Anti-Design
Anthony Dunne, Professor, Design Interactions, Royal College of Art London

14:50
Uncanny Futures: Attraction and Repulsion in Critical Social Design
Jamer Hunt, Director, Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New School for Design

15:10
“Outlaw Territories”
Felicity D. Scott, Director, Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University.

15:30
After the doomsday machine? True cost design in a restorative economy
John Thackara, Leading thinker in socially responsible and sustainable design

16:30
Panel Discussion
Chaired by Alison Clarke

19:00
Papanek Foundation Design Award and Opening of Exhibition

11 November 2011

14:00
Panel Discussion, Legacy of Anti-Design
Chair: Guy Julier, Senior Fellow, Contemporary Design, V&A, London
Anthony Dunne, Björn Franke , Jamer Hunt, Felicity D. Scott, John Thackara

15:30
Coffee

16:00-17:15
Anti-Design Film Screening

Introduction (Alison Clarke & Björn Franke & Felicity D. Scott)

IDCA: 70 by Eli Noyes and Claudia Weill, Aspen Colorado, 1970, Colour, 22:03 min

Biographics by Victor Papanek and Al Gowan, 1966, Purdue University, Colour, 6:39 min

Life (Supersurface), Director: Superstudio, Italy 1972, Colour, Sound, 15. min. (from the series: Fundamental Acts: Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death, 1971-1973)

Ceremony, Director: Superstudio, Italy 1973, Colour, Sound, 15 min. (from the series: Fundamental Acts: Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death, 1971?1973)

Desire Management, Director: Noam Toran, UK 2006, Colour, Sound, 11 min.

Postponing the Inevitable, Director: Noam Toran and Onkar Kular, UK 2007, Colour, Sound, 16 min.

17:15-18:00
Closing Reception