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Category Archives: sustainability and social innovation
Aesthetics of Sustainability
Tom Bieling | Buchbesprechung Die Gestaltung von Dingen und Räumen ist unweigerlich mit deren (werk-) stofflichen Beschaffenheit, also ihrer Materialität verbunden. Oberflächenstrukturen oder sensorische Merkmale sind dabei ebenso von Bedeutung, wie funktionale, ästhetische Aspekte oder solche der an sie … Continue reading
Posted in aesthetics, design research, design study, Literature, research, sustainability and social innovation
Tagged aesthetics, Ala Tannir, Chris Lefteri, Christophe Guberan, design research, Material Agency, material turn, Materialforschung, New Materialism, Research through Design, sustainability, Thilo Alex Brunner
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The long 1960s: Cartographies of hope
by Èrica Soler Casanovas Cities are dynamic. They have rhythms, movement and a temporal dimension. It is useless to think of the city as a container and establish an order. Listen to the everyday life because the city is … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Politik, space, sustainability and social innovation, urban
Tagged Anti-Design, archigram, Archizoom, Èrica Soler Casanovas, cultural criticism, Deleuze, design research journal, designabilities, Ettore Sottsass, Foucault, Guattari, Heterotopia, merleau-ponty, Modern, Social Craft, social impact, Socialism, Urbanisation, utopia, Utopian Movement
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Design als Problem(+)Lösung: Impulse zu einer zukunftskompatiblen Designvermittlung und -praxis
von Philipp Rösler Während die designerische Arbeit erfahrungsgemäß noch immer und viel zu oft mit oberflächlicher Formgebung gleichgesetzt oder mit starken Brands, User Centricity und ähnlichen Marketing- und PR-Klischees assoziiert wird, kommen andere, wichtige Aspekte der Entwurfstätigkeit häufig zu … Continue reading
Gewinner und Verlierer nach Covid-19. Teil V (letzter Teil): Stakeholder-Kapitalismus
von Sibylle Barden Wie wird die Welt nach Covid-19 aussehen? Die Frage ist so weit gefasst, wie die Zerstörung durch das Virus. Die Pandemie hat uns 7,8 Milliarden Weltbürger in den Ausnahmezustand versetzt, 170 Mitgliedsländer des Internationalen Währungsfonds in … Continue reading
Gewinner und Verlierer nach Covid-19. Teil IV: Das Ecosystem des Menschen
von Sibylle Barden Nahezu 71 Millionen Menschen sind laut UNHCR auf der Flucht vor Klimawandel, Konflikt und Krieg. 90 Prozent aller Vögel und Fische, so das World Economic Forum, haben Plastikpartikel in ihren Mägen. Böden, Wälder und Wasser werden … Continue reading
Die Helden der Krise
von Lars Jaeger In Krisenzeiten wird vieles auf die Probe gestellt. Mediensysteme, politische Systeme, die Gesellschaft als solche, jede*r Einzelne. Unterschiedliche Akteure versuchen Regeln zu bestimmen, sie zu verstehen, sie einzuhalten oder zu umgehen. Welche Regelsysteme und welche Akteure sich dabei durchsetzen … Continue reading
Posted in german/deutsch, philosophie, Politik, sustainability and social innovation
Tagged Bolsonaro, Corona, Covid-19, Drosten, Fake News, Kekulé, klima, Klimakatastrophe, Klimakrise, Krise, Lars Jaeger, Lüge, politik, Populismus, postfaktisch, Rechtspopulismus, SARS-CoV-2, Trump, Umwelt, Verschwörungstheorien, Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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produkt | NACHHALTIG | design
von Sonja Stummerer und Martin Hablesreiter. Das erste Mal überhaupt wage ich mich an einen persönlichen Text. Zwar stehe ich der Wissenschaftlichkeit durch Fußnoten seit jeher skeptisch gegenüber und betrachte Zitate als Feigheit vor der eigenen Aussage, aber dieser Essay … Continue reading
Es wurde alles gesagt. Handeln!
Die Erkenntnisse der Klimaforschung sind eindeutig: Um das Pariser Klimaabkommen einzuhalten, sind weitreichende Klimaschutzmaßnahmen erforderlich. Doch weder das Klimaschutz- noch das Kohleausstiegsgesetz werden den Empfehlungen der Klimaforschung gerecht. Die Folgen einer weiterhin ungebremsten globalen Erwärmung sind jedoch absehbar verheerend. Damit … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Conference Report, LeNS, Sustainability in Design NOW!, tom bieling
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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
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