Papanek Symposium 2011
Anti-Design: Prescription for Rebellion?
The Victor J. Papanek symposium celebrates the legacy of Papanek as a leading critical thinker of design. Each bi-annual event embraces a timely theme, bringing together interdisciplinary speakers to discuss and debate issues with a bearing on contemporary design practice.
The theme of the launch symposium, ‘Anti-Design: A Prescription for Rebellion’, takes its slogan from Papanek’s clarion call to designers, to look beyond the aesthetics of conventional product design to a broader, politicised vision of design’s power to transform social futures. Invited speakers, from historians to contemporary designers, will present their visions and critical reflections on the potentiality of design’s anarchic past and future.
Papanek Foundation Inaugural Lecture
November 2011
19.00 Design for the Real Real World
John Thackara
Director and Founder Doors of Perception, France
Social Design Award
10 November 2011
19.00 Design for the Real World REDUX
Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award
Together with the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, the Victor J. Papanek Foundation launched the competition Design for the Real World REDUX in Spring 2011. Designers were invited to submit innovative examples of ecologically or socially responsible design. The award ceremony includes the opening of an exhibition featuring designs of the 17 competition finalists.
Symposium
10 November 2011
13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome
Gerald Bast
Rector University of Applied Arts Vienna
14.15 Introduction
Alison Clarke
Research Director, Papanek Foundation
Chair of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna
14.30 Critical Design / Anti-Design
Anthony Dunne
Professor of Design Interactions
Royal College of Art, London
14.50 Uncanny Futures
Attraction and Repulsion in Critical Social Design
Jamer Hunt
Director of Transdisciplinary Design
Parsons The New School for Design, New York
15.10 Outlaw Territories
Felicity D. Scott
Director of Critical Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture
Columbia University, New York
15.30 After the doomsday machine?
True cost design in a restorative economy
John Thackara
Director and Founder Doors of Perception, France
16.30 Panel Discussion
Chaired by Alison Clarke
11 November 2011
14.00 Panel Discussion Legacy of Anti-Design
Chaired by Guy Julier (V&A London)
Anthony Dunne (RCA)
Björn Franke (ZHdK)
Jamer Hunt (Parsons)
Felicity D. Scott (Columbia)
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Anti-Design Film Screening
Introduction Alison Clarke, Björn Franke and Felicity D. Scott
IDCA: 70 by Eli Noyes and Claudia Weill, USA 1970
Biographics by Victor Papanek and Al Gowan, USA 1966
Life (Supersurface), Director: Superstudio, Italy 1972
Ceremony, Director: Superstudio, Italy 1973
Desire Management, Director: Noam Toran, UK 2006
Postponing the Inevitable, Director: Noam Toran and Onkar Kular, UK 2007
17.15–18.00 Closing Reception
Speakers
Paola Antonelli
Senior Curator, Architecture and Design, MoMA, New York
Alison Clarke
Director, Papanek Foundation and Chair, Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Anthony Dunne
Professor, Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, London
Guy Julier
Senior Fellow, Contemporary Design, V&A London
Jamer Hunt
Director, Urban and Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons The New School of Design, New York
Felicity D. Scott
Director of Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture Columbia University, New York
