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