Tag Archives: design

“Who rejects design, accepts to be designed”

April 29, 2010 – 10:59 pm

Critical minds: critical spaces
Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre Two
University College London
8 May 2010, 
15.00-19.00 hrs
Art historian Giulio Carlo Argan formulated his famous sentence in the nineteen-seventies, when then the modernist grand narrative of “good design” had already long disintegrated, leaving something of a semantic vacuum in the designed object, an empty space that had been promptly [...]

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Suggested reading: “Art and Answerability” by Mikhaïl Bakhtin

November 1, 2009 – 5:36 pm

Bakhtin, M. M. “Art and Answerability.”  Art and Answerability : Early Philosophical Essays. Eds. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Art and Answerability, written in 1919, is Mikhail Bakhtin’s first published essay. This early text, written when the author was only 24 years old, is usually recognised as significant for two [...]

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DESIGN ACT: Socially and politically engaged design today – critical roles and emerging tactics

August 30, 2009 – 9:23 am

On-site at ExperimentaDesign, DESIGN ACT invites you to a discussion about socially and politically engaged design.Visit and contribute to: a seminar featuring Swedish practitioners discussing historical and contemporary projects; live interviews during the opening week, and; an installation featuring a participatory archive of project examples where you can collect information and print your own publication. [...]

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