Becoming Assembly: On the Whys and Hows of Design Today
GENERAL INFO
- LOCATION
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Maus Hábitos, Porto
- DATE
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09/10/2023 – 14/10/2023
- TYPOLOGY
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WORKSHOP
- CURATED BY
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Vera Sacchetti
As a discipline born out of the industrial revolution, design was shaped by mentalities and worldviews that were very different from those we have today. Concepts such as consumerism, industrial production and capitalism, which were important foundations and drivers of the design discipline, are under scrutiny today, given the realization of the finite nature of our planet's resources and the fragile nature of our democracies. Is this a sustainable way of encouraging and promoting the practice of design? Can we imagine ways of doing design differently, with different goals and processes? Can design be freed from its origins and away from contemporary neoliberal paradigms? And can designers recover (or rediscover) different forms of agency that can contribute to a profound change in practice?
This course analyzed the paradigm shifts in and around the contemporary reality of design practice, in all manifestations of the discipline, and seeks to understand the implications of a post-industrial and multidimensional reality for a discipline that is currently at a moment of profound redefinition.
Contribution: Listening for Coexistence
The basis for implementing new ecologies of coexistence is based on actively listening to the voices of those around us, human and non-human, artificial and organic, imagined and real. Art and design thus emerge as important performative practices for moving away from the supremacy of the visual and practicing empathy, care and sensitivity towards "otherness". This contribution to the program explored design thinking for assembling through active listening, speculative writing, vocalizations, readings and sound practices.
CREDITS
- Coordinated by
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Galeria Municipal do Porto - Colectivo Pláka
- Part of
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Becoming Assembly: On the Whys and Hows of Design Today
- Photos
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Dinis Santos
