'Cost of Design 2019', Design History Society

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    Chaired conference panel 'Design Challenges for Sustainability'

     

    Panel speakers:

    A Feminist Model of Industrial Design Practice
    Dr Isabel Prochner, Syracuse University

     

    From draining swamps to urban activisms: sustainability in the design of Finnish landscapes
    Dr Eeva Berglund, Adjunct Professor, Department of Design, Aalto University, Finland

     

    The role of design for craftsmanship in a growth-critical transformation
    Dr Ulrike Haele, Assistant Professor, Institute of Design Research Vienna, Austria

     

    Conference theme: Cost of Design 2019.


    Conference Call:
    "'The Cost of Design' explores the complexities of the historic and contemporary relationship between design and economy. Design is both influenced by, and can shape, economic systems. Both 'cost' and 'economy' are to be understood beyond their financial implications. 'Cost' is envisaged as the exchange of resources, meaning or value. The conference looks at how design sustains, accelerates or challenges dominant systems, and examines the resulting social, cultural, economic or environmental consequences that arise. It examines the roles of design in rapidly changing economies, examining the relationship between technological advances and the economy. 'The Cost of Design' also looks at design's relationship to the political economy and the global/regional/local exchanges occurring within. Design practices can react to, resist, challenge or seek to influence economies that are viewed to negatively impact in some way. The ways in which design has been used to affect positive change within economic systems will also be examined."


    The conference welcomes historic, contemporary and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic, and invites contributions from design historians, scholars, and academics in related fields, as well as design practitioners and educators, museum professionals and students. Topics might include:

    Technological and changing economies

    Impact of automation
    Digitisation of design culture
    Hybridisation of physical and virtual spaces
    Political economies and global/local exchange

    Supply chains, manufacture and relocation vis-à-vis geopolitical and cultural borders
    Challenges to/persistence of dichotomies of North/South; East/West; Centre/Periphery
    Dynamics of transcultural (intra- or extra regional) design
    The relationship between design and soft power
    Appropriation and copyright
    Resistance, sharing economies and design

    Design for "post-growth" economies
    Political design in a national/regional/local context
    Artisanal/craft solutions
    Indigenous autonomy
    Designing for wellbeing, happiness and social values"

    Source: <https://www.designhistorysociety.org/conferences/view/dhs-2019-the-cost-of-design>

     

    Period5 Sept 2019
    Event typeConference
    LocationNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomShow on map