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Breakout Sessions
Each workshop will open with briefing statements by its group leaders and then proceed with group discussion. Please select a workshop when registering.
* The History and the Future of the Radical Gift of Design
Critical Design Discourse, Practice, and History and Their Influence on the Future of Design
Does design history offer any examples, structural analyses, or inspiration that could be useful for a future understanding and practice of design?
Led by
Paola Antonelli,
Jamer Hunt,
Günther Zamp Kelp,
Wolfgang Laubersheimer,
Marco Piva,
Susan Yelavich
* The Critical Gift of Communication
The Limits and Extents of Design as Communication
In an age of rapidly proliferating communication technology, the media shape — and are shaped by — design. In the face of new communications challenges for design, we urgently need a discourse to understand the effects these new phenomena will have on society and design.
Led by
Ted Byfield,
Michael Gais,
Philipp Heidkamp,
Cynthia Lawson,
Tim Parsons
* The Gifted Theory of Design
Designing as Giving: Excess and Exchange
Throughout the last few years, we have observed the development of a distinct design theory. How can we formulate this as a transdisciplinary theory, and how can this theory become an innovative and maybe even radical perspective for and partner of design practice?
Led by
Ruedi Baur,
Clive Dilnot,
Michael Erlhoff,
Pascale Gatzen,
Gesche Joost
* The Social Construction of the Gift of Design
Gender, Pluralism, and Design Futures
Design plays a crucial role in reinforcing, but also allowing changes to, sociocultural constructions of identity. This group will explore the extents and limits of design agency when it comes to the differentiation of society.
Led by
Uta Brandes,
Vicky Hattam,
Regula Stämpfli,
Cameron Tonkinwise
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