Anti-Design: Prescription for Rebellion?

Anti-Design: Prescription for Rebellion?
How radical design transforms social futures
9-11 November 2011

Paola Antonelli (MoMA)
Gerald Bast (University of Applied Arts)
Alison Clarke (University of Applied Arts)
Anthony Dunne (RCA)
Guy Julier (V&A)
Jamer Hunt (Parsons New School)
Felicity D. Scott (Columbia)
John Thackara (Doors of Perception)

Symposium
10–11 November 2011

The Victor J. Papanek symposium celebrates the legacy of Papanek as a leading critical thinker of design. Each bi-annual event embraces a timely theme, bringing together interdisciplinary speakers to discuss and debate issues with a bearing on contemporary design practice.

The theme of the launch symposium, ‘Anti-Design: A Prescription for Rebellion’, takes its slogan from Papanek’s clarion call to designers, to look beyond the aesthetics of conventional product design to a broader, politicised vision of design’s power to transform social futures. Invited speakers, from historians to contemporary designers, will present their visions and critical reflections on the potentiality of design’s anarchic past and future.

Program: Victor J. Papanek Foundation Symposium: ANTI-DESIGN: “Prescription for Rebellion?” (PDF, 582 KB)

Papanek Foundation
Inaugural Lecture

11 November 2011

14.00?Panel Discussion Legacy of Anti-Design
Chaired by Guy Julier (V&A London)

Anthony Dunne (RCA)

Björn Franke (ZHdK)

Jamer Hunt (Parsons)

Felicity D. Scott (Columbia)

John Thackara (Doors)

15.30?Coffee

16.00?Anti-Design Film Screening
Introduction Alison Clarke, Björn Franke and Felicity D. Scott

IDCA: 70 by Eli Noyes and Claudia Weill, USA 1970

Biographics by Victor Papanek and Al Gowan, USA 1966

Life (Supersurface), Director: Superstudio, Italy 1972

Ceremony, Director: Superstudio, Italy 1973

Desire Management, Director: Noam Toran, UK 2006

Postponing the Inevitable, Director: Noam Toran and Onkar Kular, UK 2007

17.15–18.00?Closing Reception