Fall program
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 / 7 P.M.
Katharina Jourdan
DESIGN AND PEOPLE –
DESIGN AS A SOCIAL-POLITICAL
FORM OF EXPRESSION
Katharina Jourdan is a graphic designer and student at HAWK University of Applied Art and Sciences in Hildesheim. She is also a member of Design and People.
Design and People explore how design can make a contribution to current aspirations of improving the lives of those who are impaired due to war, discrimination and political or environmental circumstances. Design and People connects graphic and industrial designers, architects and journalists and encourages them to use their experience and skills to implement social and humanitarian projects. Their mission is: design for people in need.
The talk aims to demonstrate the possibilities that exist in our society for creative minds to become actively involved in such initiatives.
http://www.designandpeople.org/
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 / 7 P.M.
Sebastian Feucht
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN,
HOW WILL OUR PRODUCTS BECOME
FIT FOR THE FUTURE?
Sebastian Feucht, b. 1969, is a designer and studied Product Design at the Berlin Weissensee Art College and Sustainability Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. In 2000 he founded his own company eco3plan, an agency for product development complete with its own workshop for prototype and small-series production. He regularly lectures on sustainable design at the Berlin University of the Arts and School of Economics and Law, amongst others. In 2004 he collaborated with IRIS e.V. to design the UNESCO-awarded teaching aid “sustainability suitcase”. In 2009 he founded the SUSTAINABLE DESIGN CENTER e.V. together with fellow designers and is now its chairman. Moreover, he is also the co-author of FLOW, a short film about resources, made in cooperation with the SDC and the Federal Environmental Agency.
The talk will begin with a showing of the short film FLOW, which illustrates our handling of our planet’s non-renewable resources up to now and explores a new, more sensible approach. The production of FLOW was a joint project between the SUSTAINABLE DESIGN CENTER e.V. and the Federal Environmental Agency. Using numerous examples of products as well as systematic solutions, it demonstrates how a potential world could look that is both considerably more ecologically compatible yet also takes social aspects into consideration. Some solutions successfully establish themselves on the market while others simply await application in designer’s desk drawers. The wide spectrum will be outlined in both a regional and global context. Given that we live in a world where any desires can apparently be fulfilled through so-called “retail therapy”, the perspective is both of the product and on the product. With solutions that are fit for the future and resemble services rather than hardware, great steps towards sustainability will become a possibility.
http://www.sustainable-design-center.de/
OCTOBER 04, 2011 / 7 P.M.
Michel Müller
CYBERMOHALLA HUB –
A HYBRID CULTURAL INSITUTE
IN DELHI, INDIA
Michel Müller is an architect and professor at the Köln International School of Design of Cologne University of Applied Sciences. He has also published various essays and completed a PhD on the subject of autopoietic space systems and planning methods in convertible architecture.
The “Cybermohalla Hub”, the fruit of a collaborative project with the Sarai/Ankur-Society and RAQs Media Collective, is a hybrid cultural institution in Delhi, India that incorporates a school and a small exhibition hall in addition to providing a meeting point for young people. “Cyber” stands for the Internet, “Mohalla” for neighborhood and “hub” denotes a technical device that connects individual things to one another. In keeping with the name, it creates a space for communication and networking amongst young people.
OCTOBER 6-11, 2011 / 7 P.M.
SALON FRANKFURT
RESEARCH WITH IMAGES:
WHY AND TO WHAT END DO WE
CONDUCT RESEARCH ON DESIGN?
OCTOBER 6 / 7 P.M.
RITUAL DESIGN. NEW CATHEDRALS OF CAPITALISM.
An introduction to research by Kai Rosenstein with respondent, Harald Gründel, Ritual Designer and Design Researcher, Vienna
After completing his degree in Industrial Design at the University of Applied Art Vienna in 1995, Harald Gründel founded design studio, eoos, together with Martin Bergmann and Gernot Bohnmann. eoos considers design a poetic discipline. He also fathered the extramural Institute of Design Research Vienna (IDRV), which produces independent contributions to design theory with a focus on sustainable design and design history.
Within the context of an investigation into the role of design in an event society, which he conducted between 2008 and 2010, Kai Rosenbaum created documentary photo series of events that examined the role played by rituals and gestures mimicking rituals in event design.
OCTOBER 8 / 7 P.M.
THE CHANGING PRESENTATION OF GOODS. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS UNDER THE TERMS OF GLOBALISATION
An introduction to research by Christine Schwienhorst with respondent, Clemens Bellut, Philosopher, Zurich.
Following his degree in Philosophy, German Philology and Ethnology, which he completed in Bonn and Tübingen, in 2006 Clemens Bellut co-chaired the Institute for Design Research, design2context, at the Zurich University of the Arts together with Ruedi Baur and Stefanie-Vera Baur Kockot. He is currently in preparations to open a new institution for research into design and philosophy and is in preliminary talks on the conception of a postgraduate degree program focusing on this field in Germany or Austria.
Christine Schwienhorst exhibits an extract from her documentary photography which explores regional differences in the presentation of goods in the context of the process of an accelerated circulation of goods on the globalized market.
OCTOBER 11 / 7 P.M.
OSAMA/OBAMA – WHERE IS THE MASS DISTRIBUTION OF IMAGES VIA SOCIAL NETWORKS HEADING?
An introduction from Diana Djeddi with respondent, Regula Stämpfli, Philosopher and Political Scientist, Brussels.
Regula Stämpfli lives in Brussels but also works in France, Germany and Switzerland. Alongside her work as a university tutor in History, Politics and Political Philosophy at various Swiss and European educational institutions she has published numerous articles, columns and non-fiction books. She is a member of the Ethics Council of Public Statistics in Switzerland and the Advisory Board for the International Forum for Design, Ulm.
Inspired by recent political events, Diana Djeddi is conducting research on images of the death of Al-Qaeda boss Osama Bin Laden. When he was killed by a US special unit, there were photographs taken that remain unpublished, which in turn led to wild conspiracy theories and the spread of manipulated images online. Exploring the medium of photographic images Djeddi considers the power that images have over our culture, even if they have not been published.
OCTOBER 14-15, 2011
FIRST ISSUE: SELF-PUBLISHING
FAIR FOR DESIGN AND ART
YOUNG DESIGNERS, ARTISTS AND AUTHORS PRESENT AND SELL BOOKS AND MAGAZINES, WHICH THEY HAVE DESIGNED AND PRODUCED INDEPENDENTLY.
DEAD OR ALIVE? There is hardly any other sector whose dissolution has been prophesized as often as the book industry. Despite the apodeictic assertions we have heard from many experts that “the book is dead”, countless books have yet again been released this summer. Now a new event, aimed to illustrate that young designers and artists have long since returned to working with paper and print, will take place parallel to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Named First Issue, the event will focus on self-publishing in design and art. As the title already suggests, it considers itself the first edition, which is to be followed by a Second and Third Issue. A new start. For print is far from dead – it is in fact reinventing itself right now.
And so the new producers are taking the bull by the horns. They are working to finance graphic designers, authors and artists and publish their works and sell their books, catalogs, magazines and collectibles independently. This new generation of publishers is not motivated by potential profit; rather they seek to assert design and print as an independent, artistic form of expression.
At First Issue, designers, authors and artists from both Germany and abroad will present their publications as well as holding talks and working during the conference and accompanying program under the title “Print Culture – Dead or Alive?!”
Conference, trade fair and live events will take place on both days. More detailed information can be found at www.issue-ffm.com/events
Trade fair and book sale 3-9 p.m.
Bar open from 8 p.m.
Conference 4-8 p.m.
TALKS:
ÅBÄKE / dent- de-Leone
MARCO BALESTEROS & SOFIA GONÇALVES
CHARLOTTE CHEETHAM / Manystuff
ROLAND FRÜH / Werkplaats Typografie
URS LEHNI / Rollo Press
KAI VON RABENAU / mono.kultur
JAN WENZEL / Spector Books
PUBLISHERS / EXHIBITORS:
Dent-de-Leone, Edition Fink, Edition
Taube, Kodoji Press, Lubok Verlag,
mono.kultur, m z i n – Buchhandlung und Galerie, Occasional Papers,
Rollo Press, Shake Your Tree, Spector Books, and others.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Copy Shop, FourfiveX, Plakatwerkstatt,
Werkplaats Typografie
KINDLY SUPPORTED BY:
afri cola / Antalis / basis e.V. / Club
Michel e.V. / Engelhardt & Bauer Druck
und Verlag / Hochschule für Gestaltung
Offenbach/Main / Klingspor-Museum /
Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt/Main /
Kai Linke / Seven Swans
An event by the DESIGN-VEREIN FRANKFURT e.V. / Petra Schmidt,
Catrin Altenbrandt, Sandra Doeller, Alexander Lis, Adrian Nießler, Michael Satter