Papanek Symposium 2017 - Design & Ethics London UK, 22 September 2017
Directed by Professor Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria, organised by Dr. Leah Armstrong (Papanek Foundation University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria) and Professor Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria), hosted by His Excellency Dr. Martin Eichtinger, Austrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Austrian Embassy UK, 18 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PX. Questions of design and ethics take on a new currency, form and prescience in a post-industrial, ‘post-truth’ landscape. The technological shifts that have re-organised work through the automation of labour are intimately connected to global social problems relating to immigration, racial and gender politics. New classifications of intelligence, ‘artificial’, ‘alternative’ and ‘false’, are produced and consumed through the design and management of infrastructures of information. Meanwhile, new experts in algorithmic cultures, engineering and synthetic biology pursue the application of these forms of intelligence in medicine, security, health and social care as practical solutions to complex social problems. Design and architecture occupy a powerful and precarious responsibility within this complexity, which goes beyond mere application and facilitation. The Papanek Symposium 2017 considers the deeply embedded social and political implications of design; a practice which can be so vulnerable to co-option and yet conversely so valuable as a form of dissent. It explores the unique position of design practice and research - contemporary, historical and anthropological - to address questions of ethics in design. Bringing academics and designers into dialogue, it aims to generate new ideas and critical thinking on the state of ethics in design and architecture today. Speakers include: Jan Boelen, Artistic Director Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium. David Breummer, Roboticist and Co-Founder of 5D Robotics, San Diego, California. Professor Chris Csíkszentmihályi, ERA Chair and Scientific Director, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal. Dr Bianca Elzenbaumer, Associate Professor in Design Research at Leeds College of Art and Co-Founder of Brave New Alps. Corinna Gardner, Acting Keeper, Design, Architecture and Digital, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Designer, Artist and Writer working with experimental synthetic biology, and its ethical implications, Royal College of Art, London. Dr Orit Halpern, Associate Professor Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Dr Alison Powell, Assistant Professor and Programme Director of MSc Media and Communication, London School of Economics, London. Matthias Tarasiewicz, New Media Artist and Technology Theorist, Co-Founder of the Research Institute for Arts and Technology, Vienna. Professor Eyal Weizman, Architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and Director of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Papanek Lecture 2017: The Architectural Sensorium Following the Papanek Symposium 2017: Design & Ethics, Professor Eyal Weizman, Architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and Director of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London will deliver the 2017 Papanek Lecture, ‘The Architectural Sensorium’. In recent years Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd sourcing. In this lecture Eyal Weizman, the group’s founder, provides an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. Programme 22 September 2017 10.00-10:30 Registration 10:30-11.00 Welcome 11.00-13.00 Session 1: Bio-Synthetics and Artificial Intelligence 13.00-14.30 Lunch break 14.30-16.30 Session 2: Algorithmic Cultures 16.30-18.00 Reception 18.00-19.00 Papanek Lecture Professor Eyal Weizman, Architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and Director of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Directed by: Professor Alison J. Clarke Organised by Dr. Leah Armstrong and Professor Alison J. Clarke Hosted by His Excellency Dr. Martin Eichtinger, Austrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Austrian Embassy UK Organised in collaboration with the Austrian Embassy, London and Austrian Cultural Forum, London and in official partnership with the London Design Festival. Public event, free of charge, registration required. For more information, including full programme and registration, please visit: http://papanek.org/symposium/ http://papanek.org/lecture/ http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/victor-papanek-symposium-lecture-2017 -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Reichle Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien / University of Applied Arts Vienna Abteilung Medientheorie / Media Theory Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 1010 Wien, Austria www.dieangewandte.at -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/