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18-20 dec: exhibition: Ungovernable Ingredients

Visual & Gestaltung: Katja Koeberlin & Gosia Warrink / Typeface: Tresor by Christoph Koeberlin
 

Eine Ausstellung von Künstler*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen
der Fakultät Gestaltung der UdK Berlin, in der sie ihre Forschungsarbeiten der letzten Jahre präsentieren

Ungovernable Ingredients
Die Ausstellung nimmt die wachsende Liste an „unregierbaren Zutaten“ in den Blick, die in der zeitgenössischen künstlerischen Praxis von immer entscheidenderer Bedeutung sind. Mikroorganismen, Gefühle, Konflikte oder auch Tiere gesellen sich zu altbekannten Medien wie Licht, Video oder Tonmasse hinzu. Lebewesen, neue Sprachen, Gemeinschaften und eigensinnige Materialien bereichern mit ihren unkontrollierbaren Qualitäten künstlerische und Forschungsprozesse, in denen sie mitarbeiten, zur Quelle politischen Widerstands werden oder, wie das Salz in der Suppe, den entscheidenden Unterschied machen.

Mit Beiträgen von Maciej Chmara, Manja Ebert, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Annika Haas, Anita Jóri, Anna Kokalanova, Lilli Kuschel, Gosia Warrink.

Open:
18. dez. 2024,  18 – 23 u, Vernissage
19. dez. 2024, 14 – 22 u
20. dez. 2024, 14 – 22 u, Finissage

Programm
18. Dezember
– 18 Uhr Eröffnung Ungovernable Ingredients
– 20 Uhr, Maciej Chmara: Multisensorial bread experience
19. Dezember
– 19 Uhr, Anna Kokalanova: Inauguration Ceremony: School of Impermanence
20. Dezember
– 15 Uhr, the other garden: Tea Session
– 17 Uhr, Annika Haas: Alphabets as Infrastructures of Feelings, a Writing Workshop
– 20 Uhr, Anita Jóri aka DJ NittNo: A vinyl-only listening set

Adresse
Silent Green – Betonhalle
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

An exhibition of artists* and scientists* from the Faculty of Design at the UdK Berlin, presenting the work they have been researching on over the last years

Ungovernable Ingredients
The exhibition sheds light on the expanded set of ingredients that have become critical to contemporary artistic practice. These include micro-organisms, feelings, conflict and animals, alongside long-familiar media such as light, video, and clay. Living beings, new languages, communities, or strange materials are invited into artistic and research processes for their ungovernable qualities and become co-creators, a source of political resistance, or the crucial pinch of salt.

With contributions by Maciej Chmara, Manja Ebert, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Annika Haas, Anita Jóri, Anna Kokalanova, Lilli Kuschel, Gosia Warrink.

Open:
18 dec. 2024,  18 – 23 h, Vernissage
19 dec. 2024, 14 – 22 h
20 dec. 2024, 14 – 22 h, Finissage

Program
18 December
– 18 h, opening Ungovernable Ingredients
– 20 h, Maciej Chmara: Multisensorial bread experience
19 December
– 19 h, Anna Kokalanova: Inauguration Ceremony: School of Impermanence
20 December
– 15 h, the other garden: Tea Session
– 17 h, Annika Haas: Alphabets as Infrastructures of Feelings, a Writing Workshop
– 20 h, Anita Jóri aka DJ NittNo: A vinyl-only listening set

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DE-FASHIONING EDUCATION – A critical thinking and making conference 15-16 September 2023 I Berlin I hybrid I PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OUT NOW – REGISTRATION OPEN


De-Fashioning Education – a critical thinking and making conference 

Berlin // hybrid

 

Call for Collaborations

De-Fashioning Education is a call to action as much as contemplation. A collaborative, critical and creative re-thinking and re-making of fashion education. An exploration of different fashion learning cultures.

Education for essential de-growth calls for radically different educational models and approaches: a community of learners who aim to co-create shared and diverse futures, relationships with nature, and with one another.[1]

De-Fashioning Education explores how to bring the learning and practices of fashion into balance with nature’s limits and needs and the equality and well-being of all human beings. An education for being, not only for having.[2]

‘Is the earth’s balance, for which no-growth – or even degrowth – of material production is a necessary condition, compatible with the survival of the capitalist system?’[3] André Gorz, 1972

‘The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy […] Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions…’[4] bell hooks, 1994

DOWNLOAD PRELIMINARY PROGRAM HERE or VISIT CONFERENCE WEBSITE

[1] Degrowth / Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung (2014) ’Dimensions of learning for a de-growth society’ Degrowth conference Leipzig, 3 September https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iewh1DG2Ug.

[2] Fromm, Erich (1976) ‘Introduction: The Great Promise, Its Failure, and New Alternatives’ in: To Have or to Be? New York: Harper & Row, pp. 1–12.

[3] Gorz, André (Bosquet, M.) (1972) ‚Proceedings from a public debate‘ in: Nouvel Observateur. Paris, p. 397.

[4] hooks, bell (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, p. 12

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fashioning education is a collaborative research initiative to open, facilitate and formalise the debate on fashion education against the backdrop of global social transformations. 

It brings together experts and creatives from different fields of fashion related education, research and practice into critical conversation and exploration of the transformative potential of fashion. The intiative seeks to contribute to the reflection, networking and reorientation of fashion education that meets the demands of a sustainable, social and conscious future. The three-year project is funded by the Einstein foundation and jointly led by the colleagues of the Fashion Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen, Franziska Schreiber and Renate Stauss. fashioning educationaims to share and interact by a series of annual public events culminating in a closing conference ‘Fashioning Education: A Conference on Critical Thinking and Making’ in Berlin 2023.  

fashioning education is currently shaped by the following members: Berit Greinke (Prof Dr, Wearable Computing, Berlin University of Arts(UdK)), Britta Bommert (Dr, Fashion Image Collection, Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin(KGM)), Christina Moon (Prof, Dr, Fashion Studies, The New School – Parsons New York), Dilys Williams (Prof, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion (LCF)),  Elisabeth Meier (Prof, Film Costume, Berlin University of Arts (UdK)), Franziska Schreiber (Prof, Fashion Design, Berlin University of Arts (UdK)),Melchior Rasch, student of Fashion Design, Institute of Experimental Fashion & Textiles Design, Berlin University of the Arts, Oliver Ibert (Prof, Dr, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS)), Renate Stauss (Prof, Dr, Fashion Theory, Berlin University of Arts(UdK) & Fashion Studies The American University Paris(AUP)), Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen (Prof, Fashion- and Textile Design, Berlin University of Arts(UdK)), Wowo Kraus (Prof, Fashion Design, Berlin University of Arts(UdK)),  Zowie Broach (Prof, Fashion Design, Royal College of Art London(RCA)), Patrick Presch (Lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin), Tanveer Ahmed (PhD candidate at The Open University).

 

fashioning education
Prof. Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen, Prof. Franziska Schreiber&Dr. Renate Stauss

Institut für experimentelles Bekleidungs- und Textildesign
Universität der Künste Berlin
Strasse des 17. Juni 118
10623 Berlin

more information/ latest interaction&involvement
https://fashioning.education

contact

 

Call for Participation – The De-Fashion Test Kitchen

Call for Participation

The De-Fashion Test Kitchen – Translating Degrowth into Action

a student think and make tank accompanying  “De-Fashioning Education –  A critical thinking and making conference (The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2023 X Fashioning Education )

When? Friday 15.9.23 and Saturday 16.9.23 from 09:00 until 18:00

Where? Haus Bastian: Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin

For whom? Students and recent graduates whose studies and work revolve around fashion and textiles and who are on the ´journey towards socio-ecological change in the field of fashion

Using the impulses of the De-Fashioning Education Conference as a framework, the Test Kitchen is a space for collective reflection, experimentation, action and to explore possibilities of Degrowth in our own fashion and textile practices.

The perspectives of young fashion practitioners (as change agents) plays a crucial role in the pursuit of de-fashioning education and fashion practice. Join us for this two-day workshop to learn about de-growth concepts and practices, reflect on them within the context of your work and translate them into your own practice within the context of the group. Be part of the de-fashion movement that carries fashion towards social and ecological justice!!

Through a series of workshops we will explore Degrowth from a wide range of perspectives and positions and interlink these with topics such as local production, activism, the role of care, our approach to the human and non-human environment, and our role as designers within a global fashion system.

The Test Kitchen is organized and facilitated by Isabell Schnalle and Nina Birri and a range of collaborators who will join us for workshops.

Students enrolled at The Berlin University of the Arts are eligible to gain Studium Generale Credits (2LP).

Registration is required until 30 June 2023.

Get detailed information here or visit the conference website.

We look forward to your participation.

 

Interwoven Sound Spaces – Werkstattkonzert im Konzertsaal 21. Dezember

A cello player wearing an interactive textile sleeve making expressive movement of cello playing

Foto: Nikolaus Brade

Interwoven Sound Spaces – Werkstattkonzert

Das Werkstattkonzert erforscht die Möglichkeiten telematischer Musikperformances in der Neuen Musik. Ensembles in Berlin und Piteå präsentieren das gemeinsame Konzertieren und Interagieren auf Distanz und erproben neue musikalische Ensemblepraxis durch Textil- und Netzwerktechnologien

Können zwei Ensembles, die Hunderte von Kilometern voneinander entfernt in Berlin und im schwedischen Piteå konzertieren, spürbar miteinander musizieren und interagieren und auf diese Weise ein völlig neues Musikerlebnis für das Publikum und das Ensemblespiel der Musizierenden an beiden Orten erschaffen? Genau dies erforscht das Projekt „Interwoven Sound Spaces“, die Möglichkeiten telematischer Musikperformances in der neuen Musik. Durch neue Textil- und Netzwerktechnologien wird eine spürbare Interaktion zwischen Musiker*innen ermöglicht, die räumlich an verschiedenen Orten sind. Die Ergebnisse dieser Forschungen präsentiert „Interwoven Sound Spaces“ in einem gemeinsamen interaktiven Werkstattkonzert mit dem Ensemble KNM in Berlin und dem Ensemble Norrbotten NEO im schwedischen Piteå.

Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.interwovensoundspaces.com/

Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2022, 20 Uhr: Werkstattkonzert „Interwoven Sound Spaces“ im konzertsaal der udk berlin

Neue Werke von: Ana Maria Rodriguez, Ann Rosén, Cat Hope, Malte Giesen

Kostenlose Tickets unter: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interwoven-sound-spaces-werkstattkonzert-tickets-473398055327

(Eintritt frei, Einlass ab 19 Uhr, vor und nach dem Konzert gibt es die Gelegenheit, die verwendeten Technologien in einer Ausstellung im Foyer des Konzertsaals in Berlin zu besichtigen)

 

Fotos: Nikolaus Brade, Emma Wood, Codi Körner

Kimia & Sany receive creative prototyping stipendium x sustainablity!

vorkoster / taster

Founders: Kimia Amir-Moazami and Sany Chea

Mentor: Prof. Ineke Hans

funded by: Creative Prototyping x sustainability – the Berlin startup grant at the UdK Berlin

The taster is a product that makes the deterioration of food visible in color. It is used as a lid for all sorts of containers in which food is stored. Its shape is a homage to the upside-down plate, which is often used to cover food. In the middle is a pH-sensitive film that reacts to the spoilage of protein-containing foods by changing color. The color of the lid shows us when the food should no longer be consumed or it reminds us unobtrusively and analogously to use the food in our refrigerator before it becomes inedible.

The Berlin Startup Scholarship is funded by the European Social Fund and the State of Berlin (Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Businesses), more info

 

Anna & Marie receive Creative Prototyping Stipendium X Sustainability!

FIRST AID GLOVES

Founders: Anna Koppmann and Marie Radke

Mentor: Prof. Ineke Hans

funded by: Creative Prototyping x sustainability – the Berlin startup grant at the UdK Berlin

The Berlin Startup Scholarship is funded by the European Social Fund and the State of Berlin (Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Businesses), more info

The human brain decides within eight seconds whether to initiate first aid measures or not. In emergency situations, only every third accident victim in Germany receives first aid, which many people pay for with their lives every year. The greatest inhibitions when carrying out first aid measures are the fear of touching strangers, little knowledge about first aid in emergency situations and the associated lack of practice. The First Aid Gloves combine the basic protection of disposable medical gloves with helpful first aid instructions. They ensure patient and self-protection and, by overcoming inhibitions, promote willingness to provide first aid. The printed medical latex gloves use internationally understandable pictograms to create a safe and intuitive framework for dealing with a hectic emergency situation. On the left hand is a first aid checklist. The right glove is printed with instructions on how to perform chest compressions. The First Aid Gloves impress with their compact and wallet-friendly packaging and are therefore immediately ready for use.
The First Aid Gloves should help, give courage and ultimately save lives.

Design Research Lab

Design Research Lab

The Design Research Lab is a laboratory for experimental design and research reflecting on the digital society. Through playful interventions, critical making and collaborative reasoning we investigate possible futures. As a platform and network, we are deeply involved with the requirements and policies needed for an inclusive and sustainable development of the digital society from a design perspective.
We believe in new forms of research that inherently need to be open, collaborative and rooted in practice. Critical Prototyping is one of our major heuristics. We conduct participatory design and invite different groups of people to join our research endeavours in order to reflect on their individual experiences, hopes and constraints. Furthermore, we work with interventions, cultural hacking and design explorations as research methods to address today’s challenges in a different way. Our research is divided into three different clusters:

Digital Sovereignty

The term digital sovereignty has been used for some time as a new leitmotif for navigating the digital world that focuses on the competencies, duties, and rights of the individual in times of increasing data analysis, profiling and dwindling privacy. With our research projects, workshops and lectures we reflect on the question of what are the ramifications of digital sovereignty in our society? How can design interventions, policies and new practices enable it and what is our individual responsibility for that?

Material Interactions

Within the material interactions theme, we develop and analyse novel interactive interfaces based on electronic textiles and textile production techniques. Applying practice-led research approaches, principles and knowledge from fashion and textile design are utilised to develop a textile-specific vocabulary for interaction modes. The aim is to create soft Wearable Technology that promotes autonomy, inclusion and diversity in application areas such as Creative Industries, Health and Wellbeing, Industry 4.0, and Smart Home.

Social Design
The research fields of Social Design discover the social and political dimensions of design. Following an inclusive and diversity-based approach for transformational change and activism in underrepresented and disadvantaged communities, this research cluster addresses issues such as dis/ability, poverty, ageing, gender, health, protest culture or intercultural dialogue.

www.drlab.org

 

Looming Over – Performance @ Designtransfer

Looming over

“If something looms over you, it appears as a large or unclear shape, often in a frightening way.”
Definition of ’loom‘, Collins Dictionary.

The experience of being with others, of proximity, of social spaces has undergone sudden, intense shifts. Public life suddenly saw us with our faces concealed and physical proximity put on hold until further notice. Our exchanges often occurred in mediated environments with most of our bodies left out of sight, and the spaces around each of us filtered, blurred, or entirely concealed and replaced with arbitrary imagery of non-places.

Deep into a long period of increased uncertainty, we faced the need to learn new ways of being and expressing ourselves. The material and the immaterial are constantly intertwined, our senses adapt and learn to perceive the concealed, to see through the medium, to touch without touching.

While we’re moving closer, something is drawing near.

“Looming over” is a performative interactive installation housed in the Vitrine of the designtransfer gallery at Universität der Künste Berlin at Einsteinufer 43. The enclosed space of the Vitrine is concealed by large pieces of fabric. Embroidered sensors create electromagnetic fields that react to proximity and touch. A performer moves inside this isolated yet public space, activating sound and light by means of body movement and physical presence. The large glass surface of the Vitrine itself becomes the medium through which sounds and vibrations are transmitted. Bystanders and passers-by are invited to get closer.

Performance:

25 February 2022 // 18:30
@ Designtransfer Vitrine, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Designed and fabricated by:

Berit Greinke – https://www.beritgreinke.net/

Federico Visi – https://www.federicovisi.com/

Emma Wood – https://wovenbywood.com/

Performed by:

AQAXA – https://aqaxa.bandcamp.com/

 

Fashioning Education

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: Transformation through fashion education?
Towards Systemic Change.
19 May 2022, 6-7.30 pm (CEST)
long table conversation, online

In the modernist logic of the global west fashion was constructed as the favorite child of capitalism. Fashion was defined as essentially transient, modern, urban – thus western. Fashion Education has fed a system based on this narrative. Ever faster. Ever more. One of the fastest growing educational sectors. To contribute to regenerative formation, fashion education has to become unfashionable. It has to disrupt itself, to re-configure itself – to be disruptive. 

With its second public event fashioning education continues to explore the transformative potentials of different fashion educational settings. It debates the extent to which fashion education can contribute to regeneration – from within. It invites opposing positions to a long table discussion supplemented by showcases of social fashion educational projects dedicated to new ecologies of community based on principles of collectivity, collaboration and care – proposing transformative tactics.

The event takes place on Zoom. REGISTER HERE

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fashioning education is a collaborative research initiative to open, facilitate and formalise the debate on fashion education against the backdrop of global social transformations. 

It brings together experts and creatives from different fields of fashion related education, research and practice into critical conversation and exploration of the transformative potential of fashion. The intiative seeks to contribute to the reflection, networking and reorientation of fashion education that meets the demands of a sustainable, social and conscious future. The three-year project is funded by the Einstein foundation and jointly led by the colleagues of the Fashion Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen, Franziska Schreiber and Renate Stauss. fashioning educationaims to share and interact by a series of annual public events culminating in a closing conference ‘Fashioning Education: A Conference on Critical Thinking and Making’ in Berlin 2023.  

fashioning education is currently shaped by the following members: Berit Greinke (Prof Dr, Wearable Computing, Berlin University of Arts(UdK)), Britta Bommert (Dr, Fashion Image Collection, Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin(KGM)), Christina Moon (Prof, Dr, Fashion Studies, The New School – Parsons New York), Dilys Williams (Prof, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion (LCF)),  Elisabeth Meier (Prof, Film Costume, Berlin University of Arts (UdK)), Franziska Schreiber (Prof, Fashion Design, Berlin University of Arts (UdK)), Oliver Ibert (Prof, Dr, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS)), Renate Stauss (Prof, Dr, Fashion Theory, Berlin University of Arts(UdK) & Fashion Studies The American University Paris(AUP)), Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen (Prof, Fashion- and Textile Design, Berlin University of Arts(UdK)), Wowo Kraus (Prof, Fashion Design, Berlin University of Arts(UdK)),  Zowie Broach (Prof, Fashion Design, Royal College of Art London(RCA)), Patrick Presch (Lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin), Tanveer Ahmed (PhD candidate at The Open University).

 

fashioning education
Prof. Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen, Prof. Franziska Schreiber&Dr. Renate Stauss

Institut für experimentelles Bekleidungs- und Textildesign
Universität der Künste Berlin
Strasse des 17. Juni 118
10623 Berlin

more information/ latest interaction&involvement
https://fashioning.education

contact

 

BOL Symposium 2021

Date/Time

May 18th, 2021
9:30 – 13:30

About 45 people are currently working in the Berlin Open Lab, doing exciting projects on wearables and smart textiles, on AI and ethics, on dancing, making music and acoustics in VR/AR/MR, on 3D printing, on critical making and designing (trans./feminism post-anthropocentric approaches in DIY/DIT), on machine learning and the digitalization of human learning and many more…Find out more about who is doing what in BOL in our program and meet us on BigBlueButton!

BOL Symposium Program

Many thanks to: Nikolaus Brade, UdK Photography (footage) and Irina Bogdan, Projekt Galath3A

Climate Change Focus

Ed Hawkins: warming stripes

Design & Social Context is keen to contribute to complex societal, political and strategic questions where design can play a role and even make a difference!

It is important that designers today are offered tools and opportunities to be prepared for future challenges that lay ahead of us in Design.
Climate Change is an important issue for our society and research into climate-change-orientated facts and figures and cooperations between (industrial) partners and researchers play a pivoting role in our projects. Design & Social Context aims to intensify closer cooperations between the applied arts, cultural, industrial and technological partners including research labs and let BA & MA students work and touch base with them in their design projects.
That is why Design & Social Context is for instance related to  Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg, see profile

External research relations:
2021-2024: C-Dutch (Circular Design Using The Cultural Heritage) see  and see Footprint 1850

Since 2018 a number of projects have been set that resulted in outcomes with potential impact on Climate Change and in award winning projects in the field of design.
Next to it, a number of graduates worked together with labs and Fraunhofer institutes coming up with exciting results.

CURRENT PROJECTS:
2024/2025: Food, Tools & Politics & Dare to share

PAST PROJECTS:
Since 2018: various Graduate projects
2024: Find Your Footprint, cooperation project with ZEITRAUM furniture
2023: ONE + ONE = ONE, reducing the amount of ’stuff‘
2022-2023: Circular Impact, design for What Design Can Do challenge
2021-2022: Supermarket of the Future, with CCC + Philipp Brandts (future supermarket)
2021-2022: One Material, One project, cooperation project with BASF
2020-2021: Find a Fact & Act, with intro’s from Nionhaus Berlin & Fraunhofer CeRRI
2020: Talking Shop, presents for planet earth
2019-2020: Past Present, including a mini symposium: Conservation for Innovation
2018-2019: New Grounds, with exhibitions at Istanbul Design Biennial & Bauhaus Archiv Berlin and mini symposium: What Design Can Do
2018: Power House, including a mini symposium: Sense & Sustainability

 

Design Research on Thermal Regulating Curtains Anna & Esmeé published

During the Wintersemester of 2019/20 Anna Koppmann and Esmeé Willemsen developed Thermal Regulating Curtains: Plus Minus 25ºC.Starting point was the project Past Present – conservation for innovation. For their development they were supported by Microtek Laboratories with a phase changing Material (PCM).An interview with Anna and Esmeé and Microtek is online. You can read it here including a link to their Case Study. You can also find out more on their semester project including the film they made here/below.

 

MINI SYMPOSIUM: Conservation for Innovation, 7 Nov/10 Dec, | Wise 2019/20

As part of the BA-course Past Present and the MA-course Avant Garde Attitudes (WiSe 2019/2020) a mini symposium in two parts will take place together with  designtransfer  on 7 November and 10 December, 19:00 hrs

Can we conservate to innovate and can forgotten issues become a present for our future?
A series of talks will highlight a number of themes – Methods of doing, Methods of making, Methods of informing, Methods of living – with a focus on how good ideas can transit into solutions for sensible and sustainable future living. A number of international guests will speak about inspiring cases that we can learn from:

7 November:

→ methods of doing: how did/do we live with natural recources like water and how can design turn ancient habits into innovative future projects?
Speaker: Jane Withers, British design consultant, curator, and writer.
Jane has a lot of experience on design culture and water and how ancient habits are transformed into sustainable projects. She was recently in India where she was involved in Ancient Futures a project on how old habits can be used / changed improved for future living. Jane will present all kind of inspiring examples she has come across over the years on Past and Present.

Jane Withers

 

→ methods of making: how did/do we make things, how can we do this in the future and where and how do design and science come in?
Speaker:  Carolien Niebling, Swiss based award winning researcher and food designer
Carolien studied at ECAL and made the book ‚The sausage of the Future‘ for which she won a number of impressive awards. Her starting point is that a sausage is actually one of the first industrial food that we as human beings produced. In an age where food and meat production is more and more problematic she looks at how the sausage of the future could be.

Carolien Niebling (photo: Marvin Zilm)

→ methods of informing: how do you observe and inform yourself and incorporate your findings and the right knowledge into your design process?
Speaker: Form us with love, Swedisch designers and strategists
Jonas Pettersson and John Löfgren are the founders of Form us with Love and with their studio they design industrial furniture and products. They also set out new strategies for what we DO need as sustainable future projects and they made an issue out of how do you inform yourself and what you do and do not take into your design process.

John Löfgren & Jonas Petterson

10 December:

→ methods of living: how did communities and cooperations work, what materials were available and how can we deal with that nowadays in design?
Speaker: Fernando Laposse, Mexican product and material designer

Fernando Laposse grew up with the community of Tonahuixtla, a small village of farmers and herders. With the support of CIMMYT – the world’s largest corn seed bank – native seeds were reintroduced in the impoverished village. They returned to traditional agriculture but also preservation of biodiversity for future food was secured, and they managed  to introduce a new veneer material made with husks of heirloom Mexican corn.

Fernando Laposse

FIND AN IMPRESSION OF THe TALKS HERE AND HERE