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Why the specification 40 × 40 × 80? Six questions for designer Ineke Hans, head of the bachelor‘s programme in product design at the UDK Berlin. ZEITRAUM supports the summer semester project of product design students at the University of the Arts Berlin. Find out more about the project and the challenges for future living in the interview. Read more about the project with Universität der Künste Berlin: https://ow.ly/eutL50SIeaE #Zeitraum #UDKBerlin #MinimalFootprint #DesignEducation #FutureLiving

What next for the education in art and design pipeline? We predicted in 2016, when we first surveyed our subject, that the pipeline into the creative industries would be broken. We predicted it would break by 2020. We were wrong. Under funded and under valued since 2010, a cohort of children and young people had passed through primary and secondary education with less access to arts education. By 2020 the cracks in the pipeline were already in clear view for all to see. In many secondary schools, the arts were taught on carousels - taught only for one term at a tim; in year 6 they were taught only after SATs, and then there was the EBacc! A year ago today, 27 June 2023, when Art Now, our APPG for Art, Craft and Design subject survey was published, the damage had grown even deeper: 67 per cent of art and design teachers (across all phases and nations) reported that they were considering leaving the profession; 21% reported they had never attended any subject-specific CPD. What’s more, the DfE can no longer recruit sufficient numbers of art and design trainees. It is time for all arts teachers, arts subjects and teacher trainees to be valued – for the art design education pipeline into the creative industries, to be repaired and prioritised once again. Read our latest 2023 APPG subject survey here: https://lnkd.in/eJ7Nyixj Thank you to the team of academics, gallery educators, advisors and APPG chair and vice chair that made possible, and supported, these essential surveys and reports.

Attention artists and art historians: I am chairing a panel called "Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art" for SECAC 2024 in Atlanta, October 23-26. Consider submitting an abstract or sharing it with others who may be interested. Abstracts are due on May 1. 🎉 🖌🎨🖼 ✒ 🎉 =>This panel explores the formal and conceptual emphasis on materiality in modern and contemporary art. Considering recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality, it focuses on the moments when materials become intentional actors/agents within artistic processes and investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter— “material” as the basis of medium specificity—and technique-based approaches in art history reinforced more focus on the science of artistic materials. To engage critically with the meaning, for example, of hair in David Hammons's installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth, or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, we need a different set of methodological tools. This panel welcomes contributions from both artists and art historians. Possible topics include but are not limited to how materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with aesthetic conventions as well as social norms; materiality, immateriality, and “dematerialization”; addressing materialist critiques; relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; exploring the permanence and ephemerality of substances; materiality emerging in digital media.

The back-to-school season always makes me reflect on my college experience — and one professor in particular who helped shape my passion for design. Read about that here and see some examples of my college work: https://lnkd.in/g3wrjbkX #backtoschool #graphicdesign #valuablelessons

New month, new #openaccess publication! 🎉 The journal article "Designing the In-Between: Outlining the Roles of the Designer in the Civic Arena" written by me with Valentina Auricchio is finally out on #temesdedisseny (the design research journal by Elisava School of Design and Engineering)! If you are interested in knowing more about the roles of designers in the civic arena, this is the paper for you! Looking forward to your feedback! 📥 Download it here: https://lnkd.in/dh3qnj7s #civicdesign #civicness #design #publication

It is rare to see such a wide definition of service design, that spans the Industrial Revolution, and talks of the complexity of the public sector. Describing the narrowness of the Neo-liberal service agenda and digital, and the caution that is needed. This definition of service design, with its integration with systems thinking, management, behaviour and social applications, moves service design into the realm where it should be. It is so important to widen our definition to talk about examples like Buurtzorg in The Netherlands.

The first talk from the Service Futures Lab public event series this year is now online Service Design – Historical frames and contemporary issues. Professor Dr. Alison Prendiville Starting with a historical lens this lecture will explore the nature and emergence of service to contextualise key developments that have come to define it. Different perspectives on service design will then be presented to explore its role and contribution to contemporary challenges. This first talk from the Service Future Lab at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (recorded: 1st February 2023) opens by setting the scene for understanding the historical origins of service and different ways of designing for service. Having worked in service design research and practice over the last two decades, I have observed its emergence and rapid adoption that started tentatively with its early focus on improving user experiences, to today’s more comprehensive engagement with organizational transformation, and societal challenges. In parallel, I have always had an interest in design history and culture and how people are connected, and the relationships formed through design. Starting with the infrastructural nature of services during the industrial revolution, and their role in enabling the transportation of people and goods as a key component of the capitalist system, the session presents general principles that come to define today’s global systems and raises questions on the ethical role and potential for service designers in the current climate. What follows is reflections from projects with local government, and transdisciplinary projects in human and animal health in India, to highlight some of the methods that make service design so well suited to tackling complex systemic challenges. In parallel consideration will be given to different ways of conceptualizing designing for service and how this may assist our understanding in configuring relationships between humans, more than human, technologies, institutions, and place. This lecture is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in service design research and practice and more generally those students or professionals curious to better understand the opportunities for design to address societal challenges.

Our latest blog takes a deep dive into how important it is for students to enter design and visualisation competitions, and also the Domeble Symetri Student Awards. https://lnkd.in/e4PvNg5Y

Our latest blog takes a deep dive into how important it is for students to enter design and visualisation competitions, and also the Domeble Symetri Student Awards. https://lnkd.in/e4PvNg5Y

Our latest blog takes a deep dive into how important it is for students to enter design and visualisation competitions, and also the Domeble Symetri Student Awards. https://lnkd.in/e4PvNg5Y