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

10 November 2011

13.30?Registration

14.00?Welcome
Gerald Bast
Rector University of Applied Arts Vienna

14.15?Introduction
Alison Clarke
Research Director, Papanek Foundation?
Chair of Design History and Theory?
University of Applied Arts Vienna

14.30?Critical Design?/?Anti-Design
Anthony Dunne
Professor of Design Interactions
Royal College of Art, London

14.50?Uncanny Futures
Attraction and Repulsion in Critical Social Design
Jamer Hunt
Director of Transdisciplinary Design
Parsons The New School for Design, New York

15.10?Outlaw Territories
Felicity D. Scott
Director of Critical Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture
Columbia University, New York

15.30?After the doomsday machine?
True cost design in a restorative economy
John Thackara
Director and Founder Doors of Perception, France

16.30?Panel Discussion
Chaired by Alison Clarke

Social Design Award

10 November 2011

19.00 Design for the Real World REDUX
Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award

Together with the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, the University of Applied Arts launched the competition Design for the Real World REDUX in Spring 2011. Designers were invited to submit innovative examples of ecologically or socially responsible design. The award ceremony includes the opening of an exhibition featuring designs of the 17 competition finalists.