Category Archives: sustainability and social innovation
Becoming Animal – How our Relationship with Nature, connected with the Senses, has developed to where we are now.
[A Film Review] Dorit Nafshy „As we humans are spending more and more time entranced by our artifacts, caught up in a dazzle of the digital screen, it enables us not to notice, not to feel, what’s really going on … Continue reading
Posted in bioethic, philosophie, posthumanism, sustainability and social innovation, Transhumanity
Tagged Becoming Animal, body, critic, David Abram, David Mettler, Emma Davie, Film, Human, Life, Nature, review, senses, sustainability, technology
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Designing Utopia – Designers as Catalysts for Transformation
by Tom Bieling It is said that if 3.5% of the population, across all classes, are prepared to change substantial aspects of their way of life, this will set in motion a profound change in society. 3.5 %, that doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in activism, architecture, awareness, body, design research, exhibition, gender, posthumanism, Protest, social design, sustainability and social innovation
Tagged Critical Care, design research, Designtheorie, NDU, New Design University, Political, Social, St. Pölten, tom bieling, Transformation Design, Transformationsdesign, vienna, wien
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Building Gravity: On Gravity in Architecture, Urban Development and Utopia
PROTOCOL Magazine’s recent issue (No. 8) showcases a variety of original works brought together under the theme of “the ground”. In their contribution “Building Gravity” Fernando Luiz Lara* (Austin University of Texas) and Tom Bieling** discuss the concept of “gravity” not exclusively related to the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, architecture, art, design research, philosophie, Protest, social design, sustainability and social innovation
Tagged architecture, blockupy, curitiba, democracy, democratic, design, favela, fernando luiz lara, gravity, jorge luis borges, movement, participatory, Protest, protocol, rio de janeiro, Social, Soziale Bewegung, space, spatial planning, teilhabe, tom bieling, urban planning, utopia
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Schrottküche
[English Version below!] Welche Roh- und Wertstoffe befinden sich in unseren mobilen Geräten? Unter welchen Produktionsbedingungen sind diese Geräte entstanden? Wie verhält es sich um ihren Lebenszyklus und das Leben nach ihrem Gebrauch? Im Rahmen der Code Week übt ein Team aus … Continue reading
Design as Radical Labour (Interview with Tom Bieling)
NewPractice (Issue One) on ‘Design as Radical Labour’ includes an interview with Tom Bieling about social, cultural and political dimensions of Design. Find the entire interview here!
Ivan Illich: A brief Introduction
Since many of his thoughts and works are still very present in our discourses, we would like to share a brief introduction with some background information about Ivan Illich, we found online:
New Book: The History of Sustainable Design
click to enlarge! The new publication ‘Die Geschichte des nachhaltigen Designs‘ (= The History of sustainable Design) by Karin-Simone Fuhs, Davide Brocchi, Michael Maxein & Bernd Draser (Hrsg.) contains a contribution by Design Research Lab‘s Tom Bieling, Florian Sametinger and Gesche … Continue reading
Posted in design research, Literature, sustainability and social innovation
Tagged Bernd Draser, buch, Davide Brocchi, design research lab, Die Geschichte des Nachhaltigen Designs, florian sametinger, gesche joost, Innovation, Karin-Simone Fuhs, Michael Maxein, nachhaltigkeit, Social, sustainability, tom bieling
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Community Infrastructuring
Communities can be understood as forms of active engagement, collaboration and knowledge sharing which create new social bonds and be regarded as catalysts for social innovation and participation. The community infrastructuring research group (Florian Sametinger, Jennifer Schubert, Andreas Unteidig, Malte … Continue reading
Radio Interview (Tom Bieling, Multicult FM, 24 October 2012)
Tom Bieling talks about the Project DESIGN IN(G) SOCIETY in this Radio Interview (Language: German). To listen or download the Interview click here! Or “watch” it on Youtube: For further Infos on the project click here! Project DESIGN IN(G) SOCIETY In the winter semester 2012/13, a … Continue reading
Manzini on Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
We already mentioned Ezio Manzini quite a lot. Here is another one of his talks (from 2010): Ezio Manzini-Keynote: Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
Posted in sustainability and social innovation
Tagged design, ezio, manzini, social innovation, sustainability
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Touching new ways of commincation for 2012 and beyond….
Dear friends Liebe Freunde Caras amigos A healthy, successful and happy 2012 to all of you (especially those we haven’t met this year)! Euch allen (insbesondere denen, die wir in diesem Jahr leider nicht treffen konnten) sowie einen sicheren Rutsch … Continue reading
Conference Review: Sustainability in Design NOW! (Bangalore/India 2010)
We recently attended the Sustainability in Design: NOW! Conference in Bangalore/India. The Conference was promoted and organized as the concluding event of the EU funded LeNS project, which aims at the development and diffusion of design for sustainability in design … Continue reading
Ramia Maze on social Inno
After Dr. Ramia Maze could unfortunately not attend personally the last DRNetwork Forum, she did an interesting online presentation. I am not sure, if that video will be uploaded on DRNetwork, so in substitute i post her recent talk on … Continue reading
