Design Anthropology: Experiments in Cold War Industrial Design

Keynote Lecture

Design Anthropology: Experiments in Cold War Industrial Design

Alison J. Clarke
Design History Conference
UCA, United Kingdom
7 September 2024

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This keynote lecture argues that the origins of the design anthropology phenomena lie closer to early US decolonising & development policies than contemporary Silicon Valley innovation and grassroots community co-design initiatives. Design & social science emerged as crucial partners in negotiating Cold War geo-political interventions and in so-doing generated an enduring borderless disciplinary alliance that persists today.

On Gathering in Five Chapters

Guest Lecture

On Gathering in Five Chapters

Mindy Seu
Online Event
24 April 2024, 18:00

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Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City, currently teaching as an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts. She is the authoring editor of the Cyberfeminism Index (2023). Mindy Seu has long been a gatherer. In its material and social forms, as a collection and event, gatherings serve as the intentional aggregation of resources for a specific community. In this lecture, Seu will discuss tools, indexes, and learning trails through five chapters: 1) Cyberfeminism Index, 2) ellipses and citations, 3) asterisks and collective publishing, 4) web-to-print tools, and 5) the Carrier Bag Theory.

Crafting Alternate Futures with Design

image © Babitha George

Guest Lecture

Crafting Alternate Futures with Design

Babitha George
Online Event
17 April 2024, 10:00

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Babitha George is a director at Quicksand. She has worked on evolving design methods for research with vulnerable communities in India, for participation and co-design. She is also one of the co-founders of UnBox Cultural Futures, a platform bringing together efforts around social change, art & culture, thoughtful design and open research. Babitha is on the Advisory Board of the Victor Papanek Foundation and a member of the Mozilla Foundation’s first cohort of ‘Network50’, for outstanding work in Internet health. George shares reflections on how to build more caring and resilient design practice through actively engaging with the contextual richness, uniqueness and specificity of place-based conditions.

theOtherWay Adib Dada

© Beirut’s RiverLESS Forest, Simon Soueid for theOtherDada

Guest Lecture

theOtherWay: How can designers create conditions conducive to life, building interspecies habitats for humans and other creatures to thrive?

Adib Dada
Online Event
10 April 2024, 14:00

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Adib Dada is an award-winning environmental activist and architect, founder of theOtherDada Regenerative Consulting and Architecture Practice. Firmly committed to the UN Decade of Action, Adib is engaged in rewilding the city and reclaiming public space by planting native Miyawaki forests in urban landfills through his new initiative: theOtherForest, a nature-based tool for ecological and social regeneration. In this presentation, Adib will share the different components underpinning his work, and how his personal passions, architectural projects, biomimicry training and hands-on forest-making work are interdependent. He will cover his approach from reframing current urban challenges as opportunities to turn cities into shared spaces for humans and other organisms to thrive.

Collapsing Bodies

© “The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism [Screenshot]” (2023) Daniel Felstead

Guest Lecture

Collapsing Bodies

Daniel Felstead
Online Event
20 March 2024, 14:00

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Daniel Felstead, an academic and content producer whose practice focuses on the relationship between fashion and technology, will interrogate the fractured realities of our contemporary creative landscape. A landscape of disciplinary boundary collapse. A landscape where the realms of fashion, art and world-building converge. Through this exploration of creative frontiers, he invites us to reconsider the role of cultural production in sculpting our hypermediatised bodies. Course leader of MA Fashion Media & Communication at the London College of Fashion (UAL), Felstead’s work has been widely and internationally shown.

Presence as Practice

image © Monika Lovdahl, 2017

Guest Lecture

Presence as Practice

Amy Franceschini
Online Event
13 March 2024, 09:30

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Amy Franceschini is the founder of Futurefarmers, an international working group founded in San Francisco in 1995. They are artists, architects, computer programmers, donkeys, graphic designers, farmers, writers and anthropologists with a common interest in creating work that calls into question the social, political and economic frameworks in the contexts in which they work. A through line of their practices is an interest in the reorganization of agricultural systems. They engage issues of food sovereignty, farmers’ rights and the commons through long term engagements which manifest as temporary workshops, derives and performative processes that have led to policy change and permanent commons. Through an associative lecture Franceschini is connecting the research and actions of Futurefarmers’ work in public space.

Papanek Symposium 2023

International Symposium

Design Anthropology: Critical Speculation

Online Event
March 16–17 2023
University of Applied Arts Vienna
The New School for Social Research NYC

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Design Anthropology: Critical Speculations, a collaborative online symposium organised between the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the anthropology department of The New School for Social Research, NYC, considers the critical design politics of re-purposing design ‘for the real world’, bringing together cutting-edge designers, social scientists, curators and historians. International speakers include Michelle D. Commander, Bodhi Chattopadhyay, Elizabeth Chin, Jonathan M. Square, Victor Buchli, David Jeevendrampillai, Nicole Cristi, Elaine Gan, and Brandi T. Summers.

Lecture Series – Education, Architecture, Policy

Lecture series

Education, Architecture, Policy

Post-war exchanges on educational policy and school building

Holger Zaunstöck, Anna-Sophia Kruscha, Oliver Sukrow, Mitja Zorc, Ning de Coninck-Smith, Sanja Petrović Todosijević, Maja Lorbek, Maren Elfert
Online Event
March 2023 – June 2023

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Within the framework of the research project “Transnational School Construction”, we are organising a series of lectures on post-war education and school architecture. Topics include long-term notions of schooling and educational utopias, post-war educational reforms in GDR, Yugoslavia and Austria, historical and contemporary concepts of school interiors, and educational planning in the 1960s. 

Solidarity by Design: OSPAAAL

Guest Lecture

Solidarity by Design: OSPAAAL

Lani Hanna
Online Event
May 24, 14:00

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This lecture considers political solidarity and internationalism through print and design culture. Armed by Design was an exhibition, print portfolio, and is a forthcoming book centering the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL). OSPAAAL was a Cuban design and publishing organization that emerged after the 1966 Tricontinental Conference. The talk will explore questions about design language, publishing and distribution solidarity, and contemporary internationalism. Lani Hanna is a collective member at Interference Archive, has been involved in organizing Armed by Design since its conception, has written about OSPAAAL for other publications and is one of the editors of the forthcoming book. 

Global Design + Image Making from a South Asian Feminist lens

Guest Lecture

Global Design + Image Making from a South Asian Feminist lens

Mira F. Malhotra
Online Event
May 17 2023, 14:00

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Mira Felicia Malhotra is the principal designer and founder of Studio Kohl, a boutique design house based in Mumbai. In this talk, Mira will showcase Studio Kohl’s practice championing topics such as gender and mental health issues, that adhere to feminist ideals that inform its practice. The ambition is to present a South Asian perspective authored by South Asians themselves and a rightful taking back of the narratives on global platforms. Through the lecture we explore a landscape fraught with many problems: successfully balancing client expectations, a fluctuating, demanding market, a rapidly growing design landscape, and a fervent dedication to the design problems at hand.

Cultures of Connection

Guest Lecture

Cultures of Connection

Lucy Norris
Online Event
May 3 2023, 14:00

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What are the design challenges to bridging local capacities and building new material ecologies? This talk will explore the potential for young designers to engage with regenerative material systems and develop appropriate technologies of making, with a focus on fibre and regional infrastructures. Prof Dr Lucy Norris teaches Design Research at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, and is affiliated to the DFG Cluster of Excellence ‘Matters of Activity’. Lucy trained as a social anthropologist at University College London, and has researched cultural economies of textile making, use, reuse and recycling in India and the UK, and the global circulation of waste clothing.

A Feminist Life

Guest Lecture

A Feminist Life

Dina Benbrahim
Online Event
April 26 2023, 14:00

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Dina Benbrahim is a Moroccan multidisciplinary creative who uses an intersectional feminist lens to investigate design for visibility, civic action, and social justice for minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures. She is an Endowed Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at University of Arkansas, and also the founder and director of Hello Departures, an experimental design space at the intersection of pedagogy, strategy, and community. Dina will take us on a journey on how her feminist beliefs have shaped and influenced her unconventional approach to design education. Through her work, she hopes to inspire the next generation of designers to identify and implement, with communities, creative possibilities that can help address our most pressing challenges and bring meaningful change.

Design Me Different

Guest Lecture

Design Me Different

Beatrace Angut, Lorika Oola
Online Event
March 29 2023, 14:00

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Beatrace Angut Lorika Oola is founder of the digital information platform Fashion Africa Now and is also a guest lecturer at the University for Arts in Bremen. In this lecture she will give an introduction to Fashioning Africa and Afrocentric perspectives. Black aesthetics are increasingly shaping the fashion landscape, from Pyer Moss to Kenneth Ize, Thebe Magugu, Sindiso Khumalo and Loza Malèombho, to name a few. A booming fashion scene from Africa and its diaspora is gaining international attention, breaking stereotypes, dispelling clichés and reclaiming narratives. What role do colonial continuities play in the fashion system? What is it about “wokefishing” in fashion?

Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design

Exhibition

Victor Papanek:
The Politics of Design

Design Museum Den Bosch,
Netherlands
October 17 2020 – March 23 2021
C-Mine,
Genk, Belgium,
10 March – 12 July 2020
Design Museum Barcelona,
Catalonia, Spain
31 October 2019 – 2 February 2020
Vitra Design Museum,
Weil am Rhein, Germany
29 September 2018 – 10 March 2019

Co-curated by
Prof. Alison J. Clarke ,
a co-operation with Vitra Design Museum,
Papanek Foundation
and Museu del Disseny Barcelona

The Papanek Foundation presents the international travelling exhibition Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design, co-curated and organised with Vitra Design Museum in Weil Am Rhein, Germany. The expansive show presents varied and previously unseen materials from the Papanek Foundation archive pertaining to design activist Victor Papanek’s lifelong career, highlighting the crucial theme of design as a political and social tool. Alongside the exploration of Papanek’s links with key thinkers and design figures, ranging from media theorist Marshall McLuhan, maverick futurist Buckminster Fuller to leading feminist graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, the exhibition casts light on the legacy of 1960s and 1970s activism through the presentation of contemporary exhibits dealing with politically pertinent issues ranging from state violence, to climate change, bio-synthetics, and the precariousness of citizenship.

Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design features work from cutting edge practitioners such as: Forensic Architecture; Natsai Audrey Chieza; Flui Colectivo; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg; Femke Herregraven; NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism/Hypen-Labs; Lucy and Jorge Orta; Tomás Saraceno; Maya Jay Varadaraj.

This exhibition is a cooperation between the Vitra Design Museum and the Barcelona Design Museum, in collaboration with the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Past Events by Year

2022

2022, June 9
James Auger
Guest Lecture
Reconstrained Design
Online Event
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna


2022, May 26
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Book Launch
International Design Organizations: Histories, Legacies, Values
Online Event
Hosted by the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton


2022, May 24–25
Leah Armstrong
Symposium
Masculinities in Design: Objects, Identities and Practices
Online Event
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2022, May 19
Molly Wright Steenson
Guest Lecture
Intertwining AI & Architecture: A History
Online Event
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2022, May 12
Mona Sloane
Lecture Series
AI, Design, and Inequality
Online Event
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2022, May 6
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Lecture
The Anxiety of the Normative: Style Biographies of the Home
Spatial Anthropologies

Online Event
Royal Danish Academy,
Copenhagen, DK


2022, April 5
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Lecture
Design Anthropology: Industrial Design and the Project of Post-War Development
Online Event
Bard Graduate Center, NYC, USA


2022, March 31
John Stevens
Lecture Series
Designing for Out-of-reach Contexts
Online Event
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna


2022, March 24
Andrew Mallinson
Lecture Series
Portals
Online Event
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2021


2021, November 23
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Histories in Ecology and Design: Myths of the Circular Economy
9th Bienial Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID), Madrid

2021, October 28
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Design Anthropology: Legacies and Futures
Chilean Design Week, Santiago

2021, June 4
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Guest Lecture
Writing Critical Design Biography
Işık University, School of Industrial Design, Istanbul

2021, June 9
Carol Tulloch
Guest Lecture
This Time It’s Personal
Online Event

2021, May 11
Shannon Mattern
Guest Lecture
Purity and Security: A Cultural History of Plexiglass
Online Event


2021, April 21
Brendan Cormier
Guest Lecture
Pandemic Objects
Online Event

2021, April 16
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Beyond Interiority: The Design Politics of Normativity
Online Event, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen

2021, March 23
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Book Release
Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World
MIT Press

2020

2020, 16 October
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Lecture
Design for the Real World?
Design Museum Den Bosch, the Netherlands

2020, 6 March
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Lecture
Ecology and the Sociotechnics of Design
C-Mine, Genk, Belgium

2019

2019, 30 October
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Opening Exhibition Talk
Victor Papanek:
The Politics of Design

Barcelona Design Museum, Barcelona

2019, 26–27 September
Organised by Prof. Alison J. Clarke and Francisco Laranjo
Papanek Symposium 2019
Papanek Symposium 2019: Real World: Design, Politics, Future
Porto Design Biennale, Portugal

2019, June 13
Dr. Martina Grünewald
Open seminar session with Magdalena Reiter
“Make Design Open”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 16–17
Concept and organizer: Dr. Elana Shapira
Symposium
Design Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 2–4
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Politics of Design: Manufacturing the “Undeveloped Peoples”
Design and Authority, 4T Design and Design History Conference

2019, June 19
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth
“Catalog for the Post Human: Reflections on the Future of Human Enhancement”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, June 5
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Roman Kirschner
“Entangled Environments and Some Questions on Methods”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 22
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Noam Toran
“One Leg Up and a Hole in the Ground”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 8
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Ruth Sonderegger
“Kritik als Prozess”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, April 10
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Daniela Gruber
“EIN-SICHTEN”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, March 20
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Opening Keynote Lecture
Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design and the Role of Design Education
Bauhaus Festival School FUNDAMENTAL, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany

2019, 22 February
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
The Other Way: Designing a Sustainable Tomorrow
London Design Museum, UK

2019, 21 February
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Public Lecture
The Problem of the ‘Social’ in Design
Politechnico di Milano
Polifactory, Milano

2019, 10 January
Guest hosted by Anita Posch, organised by Martina Grünewald
Workshop
Digital Currencies and Smart Contracts: Bitcoin, Blockchain & Co.
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Design History and Theory, Seminar Room

2018


2018, 22 November
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Public Lecture
Design Revolution
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

2018, 8–9 November
Symposium
Freud and the Émigré. Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s to the 1970s
Concept by Elana Shapira with Daniela Finzi, Research Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum
Freud Museum, Vienna

2018, 15 October
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
‘Design Anthropology and Spatial Relations’
Bauhaus Dessau
Dessau, Germany

2018, 5 October
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
‘Victor Papanek: Design, Ecology, and Global Activism’
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Providence, USA

2018, 28 September
Alison J. Clarke
Panel discussion
‘Can Design Save the World?’
Vitra Design Museum
Weil-am-Rhein, Germany

2018, 22 July
Leah Armstrong
Panel discussion
‘Fashion Utopias’
Transfashional network, State of Fashion 2018
Arnhem, Netherlands

2018, 6 July
Leah Armstrong
Book Launch: ‘Fashioning Professionals’
London College of Fashion, UK

2018, 28 May
Dr Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
‘Toolkits for change: American systems furniture and the open plan office’
Seminar room, Design History and Theory
Postgasse 6

2018, 17 May
Elana Shapira
‘Jewish clients and architects, Viennese modernism and the sociology of aesthetics’
Slovak National Library,
Bratislava, Slovakia

2018, 12 April
Alison J. Clarke
Lecture: ‘The Politics of Design’
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
EnsadLab, ‘Science of Doubt’ series,
Paris, France


2018 March 22–June 10
Dana Abdulla
Workshop Series
Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love: coffeehouse debates on decolonising design
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2018, 10 March
Alison J. Clarke
‘Design Anthropology: Agencies, Inclusions and Exigencies’
Conference: The Agents of Design/Design as Agency
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2017

2017, 17 December
Alison J. Clarke
Symposium: Bauhaus Lab 2017: Between Chairs
Bauhaus Dessau, Germany

2017, 10 December
Elana Shapira
‘Adolf Loos und seine Schneider: Über Mode und Innendekoration in Wien um 1900’
Imperial Furniture Collection, Vienna

2017, 30 November
Elana Shapira
‘People are more important than things: Austrian Émigré designers in Britain’
Conference: Designs on Britain: Jewish Émigré Designers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London


2017, 9–10 November
Alison J. Clarke and Leah Armstrong(Co-Convenors)
‘International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values’
In collaboration with Centre for Design History, University of Brighton

2017, 27 October
Alison J. Clarke
‘Design as Futurism and its Discontents’
Keynote delivered on occasion of award of Honorary Doctorate, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

2017, 21 October 2017
”Chrono-Voyeurism: A Design Anthropology of Retro Food’
Alison J. Clarke
Experiencing Food: International Food Design & Food Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2017, 22 September 2017
Alison J. Clarke (Director and Co-organiser) and Leah Armstrong(Co-Organiser)
‘Papanek Symposium 2017: Design and Ethics’
Austrian Embassy, London
Official partner of London Design Festival 2017
Papanek Symposium 2017


2017, 6 September
Leah Armstrong
‘Working from home’: Representing the Professional Designer in Post-War Britain’
Conference: Mediating Cultural Work
University of Leicester, UK


2017, 28 June
Clemens Winkler
‘Political Clouds’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 24 May
Burkhard Meltzer
‘Vitamin Water: How Design has become Art’s Critical Agent’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 10 May
Julijonas Urbonas
‘Thingly Philosophy, Transtextuality and Material Hermeneutics in Art and Design’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 3 May
Eric Anderson
‘Colour Cure: Freud, Optical Science and Design Theory’
Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna


2017, 26 April
Daisy Ginsberg
‘The Dream of Better’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 26 January
V&A Design Culture Salon in collaboration with Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Speakers: Alison J. Clarke, Martina Grünewald, Guy Julier, Matthias Tarasiewicz
“Alternative Exchange: How Does Design Create Alternative Economies in Contemporary Design Culture?”
Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL), Vienna

2017, 26 January
Guy Julier
Guest Lecture: ‘Economies of Design: Materialising Finance’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 23 January
Leah Armstrong
Invited speaker: ‘Transparency in Design: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Endarkenment’
Technical University, Vienna

2017, 12 January
Dr Stefanie Wuschitz
Guest Lecture: ‘Maker Culture: A Feminist Perspective’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016

2016, 24 November
Leanne Wierzba
Guest Lecture: ‘What is Luxury and for whom?’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016, 23 November
Leah Armstrong
Work-in-Progress, ‘A new Image for a New Profession: Self-image and Representation in the Professionalisation of Design 1945-1960’
University of Applied Arts Vienna


2016, 20 November
Elana Shapira
Guest Lecture: Annual Zilk Lecture, ‘Un-designed Identities: Jewish Patrons and Viennese Modernism’
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2016, 9 November
Ufaq Inam
‘Bazaar Economy & Traditional Medicine: An Ethnographic investigation in Papad Mandi, Lahore
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016, 26 October
Leah Armstrong
‘Looking Inwards and Facing Outwards: the Society of Industrial Artists in Britain 1930-1967’
ICDHS Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

2016, 13-14 October
Dr Elana Shapira
‘Design Dialogue: Jewish Contributions to Viennese Modernism’
MAK Design Forum, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

2016, 23-25 September
Alison J. Clarke
Stamps Design Salon, Detroit Design Festival

2016, 9 September
Leah Armstrong
Chair: ‘Time, Objects and the Experience of the Home’
Design History Society Annual Conference Middlesex UK

2016, 23 June
Onkar Kular, Stanley Picker Fellow in Design and Professor in Design Interventions, HDK, Gothenburg University.
Designing Interventions
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 8 June
Carmen Weisskopf, !Mediengruppe Betnik
Random Darknet Shopping Bots, Mail Art and Surveillance Algorithms
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

Undesign Symposium Poster
2016, 2 June
Björn Franke and Alison J. Clarke
Undesign
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts
Convened as part of the FWF Research Project “Émigré Design Networks and the Founding of Social Design”
Full Programme

2016, 25 May
Edward Saunders
Negotiating Questions of Method in Biography
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 23 May
Christopher Long
Central European Modernists and the Varieties of Southern California Design
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 18 May
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture: ‘Design Anthropology: Reassessing Historiography and Critical Methods in Design Studies’
University of Antwerp

2016, 4 May
Heng Zhi
Understanding Shenzai
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 20 April
Tido von Oppeln
Design Exhibited: Versuche zu einer Praxis der Theorie im Design
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2015

2015, 13 November
Alison J. Clarke
‘Designs for the Real World: Cold War “Soft” Diplomacy and the Emergence of Radical Design Anthropology in 1960s Design & Engineering’
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK

2015, 30–31 October
Alison J. Clarke
‘Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir: The Influence of Finland’s North on 1960s Radical Design’
North as Meaning in Design and Art
Kulttuuritalo Korundi, Lapland

2015, 14 October
Book Discussion with John Thackara
‘How to thrive in the next economy’
Café Prückel, Wien

2016, 12 October
Elisabeth Peterman, PhD Candidate, Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Work-in-Progress: ‘Ways to Unlock the Trend Industry’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2015, 24–25 September
Alison J. Clarke
‘Work Activity: The Politics of Work and Design in a Neo-Liberal Economy’
Fair Design: International Conference on Design Theory and Criticism
Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Design, Warsaw, Poland

2015, 11–13 September
Alison J. Clarke
‘How we live and how we might live: Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism’
Annual Design History Society Conference 2015
California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA

2015, 8 June
Alison J. Clarke
‘Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir and Other Designs for the Real World’
NORDES 2015 Conference, Design Ecologies
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden

2015, 27-28 May
Alison J. Clarke and Elana Shapira (Co-Organisers)
Emigre Design Culture: Histories of the Social in Design
Papanek Symposium 2015
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2015, 20 February
Alison J. Clarke
How dependent is the design profession on cultures of migration?
Design Culture Salon
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

2014

2014, 26 September – 15 December
Alison J. Clarke (Co-Curator)
Exhibition: ‘How Things Don’t Work: The Dreamspace of Victor Papanek’
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design,
New York, USA

2014, 4 December
Alison J. Clarke (Co-Curator and Panellist)
Panel Discussion, ‘Permanent Garbage: Victor Papanek and Beautiful Visions of Failed Systems’
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design,
New York, USA

2014, 18–19 September
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote: ‘Design Dispersed: The Origins of the Social in Design’
Design Culture: Object, Discipline and Practice
University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

2014, 3 June
Adam Drazin
Setting up a laboratory of material life: Can anthropology and the studio mix?
Lecture Series, Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2014, 22–23 May
Björn Franke
‘The Future, the Possible and the New’
‘Multiply Futures’: International Design Symposium
Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria

2014, 5 May
Alison J. Clarke
‘Design Activism and the Cultural Cold War’
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture
New York, USA

2014, 13–16 April
Bryleigh Morsink
‘New Zealand’s Pioneering Emigre Architects: An Exceptional Legacy in the South Pacific’
Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking European Architecture Beyond Europe
University of Palermo, Italy

2014, 10 April
Josef Moser
Das Krankenhaus als Designobjekt: Entwicklung, Tendenzen
Lecture Series
Department of Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna

2014, 7–10 April
Alison J. Clarke
Public lecture as Robert W. Deutsch Visiting Scholar Social Design
‘Designer for the Real World’
MICA, Baltimore, USA

2014, 24 April
Alison J. Clarke
‘Where Social Science Meets Design’
Configuring Light/Staging the Social: A New Research Agenda
London School of Economics, UK