Social Design Network Conference

All Day

Exhibits & Interventions (More)

09:30

Conference Opening

Welcome remarks by the Conference Chairs, Jacqueline Holzer (Director, HSLU DFK) and SDN Board members

10:15

Flor Avelino: The Power and Prefiguration in Just Sustainability Transitions

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11:30 –
13:00

Diversity & New Actors

Room: Aktionshalle

Literacies & Pedagogies

Room: 754.079

Workshops & Discussions

Rooms: Master Ateliers A/B

Nuri Kwon, Carlos Lopez-Galviz
Reimagining the Social: Understanding the 'marginal' of current research practices (Abstract)

Merle Ibach
Impact Assessment for Social Design: Bridging Gaps and Unlocking Potentials (Abstract)

Louis Alderson-Bythell, Daniela P. Santillan N.
Imagination Actors in Social Design: Reflections on Spatiality, Affective Labour and Support (Abstract)

🟧 Session Chair: Bori Feher

Jana Thierfelder, Patrick Müller
Feral Pedagogy: A Transdisciplinary Teaching Format for Bridging Art-Science (Abstract)

Linfu Zhang, Linyun Song, Xiyu Du, Zhipeng Duan, Yiqun Luo
Empowering Future Designers: Embedding Multi-Scale Social Analysis in Social Design Pedagogy (Abstract)

Annunziata Albano
Neighborhood Networks as Infrastructuring. Tales of Diffuse Infrastructuring from Rete Corvetto (Abstract)

🟦 Session Chair: Karin Fink

Teresa Palmieri, Margherita Vacca, Hatice Server Kesdi, Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Fabio Ballerini, Galit Shvo
Designing with Togetherness: Exploring the involvement of more-than-human actors in eco-social design actions (Description)

Watson Foundation
SDNC Impact Fellows Meeting (Description)

[Closed session for selected fellows]

13:00

Lunch Break

14:30 –
16:00

Louise Mazet, Liesbeth Huybrechts
Layering desire: a feminist utopian framework for beg(u)inning Living Limburg Lab (Abstract)

Tobias Schultz
Caring Masculinities? Feminist (Design-)Interventions against Hegemonic Masculinity (Abstract)

Sophie Falkeis
Ecological Speculations - Catalyzing Eco-Social Transformation through Climate Science and Speculative Design (Abstract)

🟧 Session Chair: Anna Antonakis

Isabelle Dechamps, S Guruprasad
Towards a Culture of Care: Mindfulness in Design Education (Abstract)

Jasmin Jossin, Myriel Milićević
Love in the future city: Outputs and reflections from an experimental inter- and transdisciplinary design course (Abstract)

Pınar Kaygan, Cecilia De Marinis, Ruth-Helene Melioranski
Exploring design education through feminist thinking: Reflections from three pedagogical contexts (Abstract)

🟦 Session Chair: Jan-Christoph Zoels

Michael Speranza, Karina Kaindl
Sustainability Basecamp (Description)

Shanice Patricia Heuzeveldt
Collective Weaving Workshop (Description)

16:00

Break

16:30 –
18:00

Juan Fortun
Towards Pluriversal Digital Design (Abstract)

Laura Galluzzo, Francesco Vergani, Valentina Ferreri
Challenging Anthropocentric Urbanism through Marginal, Queer and Multispecies Perspectives: the Plural Public Space Workshop (Description)

Florian Sametinger, Andrea Augsten, Sven Quadflieg
Designing with Local and Indigenous Knowledges (Abstract)

🟧 Session Chair: Gilly Karjevski

Ruth-Helene Melioranski
Towards applying relational thinking in design for health pedagogies (Abstract)

Kris Krois, Jennifer Schubert, Noemi Zajzon, Laura Heym, Anna Laumer
Value Matters: A playful and strategic toolkit exploring value practices (Abstract)

Janka Csernák
The Role of Design in Feminist Organizations (Abstract)

🟦 Session Chair: Jonathan Ventura

Tanveer Ahmed, Leila Kelleher, Renate Stauss, Franziska Schreiber
A Collaborative Imperative: Embodied Design Pedagogies for Democracy (Abstract)

Catalina Jossen Cardozo
[Workshop] What is Value? Challenging Capital and Privilege in Design, Entrepreneurship, and Creative Economies (Description)

18:00

Apero & Exhibition Opening

19:00

Dinner Workshop

20:30

Party

All Day

Exhibits & Interventions (More)

09:30

Jesko Fezer: Partisan Design as an Oriented Social Practice

(more)

10:15

Break

10:30 –
12:00

New Conflicts / Old Identities

Room: Aktionshalle

Literacies & Pedagogies

Room: 754.079

Workshops & Discussions

Rooms: Master Ateliers A/B

Christoph Schindler, Bigna Suter
Things as Social Facts: On Use and Acceptance of Four Social Objects (Abstract)

Sarah Dégallier Rochat
Robots that look like us: Rethinking Automation Through Democratic Design (Abstract)

Miriam Lahusen, Florian Sametinger, Alexander Müller-Rakow, Iva Karabatic
Overcoming cultural divides through place-based participatory action: Experiences from the „Junge Täler” Project (Abstract)

🟧 Session Chair: Isabelle Dechamps

Margherita Ascari, Simona Colitti, Valentina Gianfrate
Design-based practices towards new ecological consciousness. The case of the Collective Archive of the Climate Emergency Memory. (Abstract)

Danae Esparza Lozano, Margherita Vacca, Guim Espelt Estopà, Fabio Ballerini
Shared Skills for Social Impact: Designing a Joint Curriculum for Intercultural Craft Practices (Abstract)

Teresa Palmieri
Educating Reflective Eco-Social Designers: Tools for supporting reflection in and on collaboration (Abstract)

🟦 Session Chair: Jens Badura

Shilpa Das, Karin Fink, Andreas Unteidig, Sahil Thappa
Navigating the Lowlands: Toward a Literacy Framework for Eco-Social Design Education (Description)

12:00

Lunch Break

13:00 –
14:00

New Conflicts / Old Identities

Room: Aktionshalle

Diversity & New Actors

Room: 754.079

Workshops & Discussions

Rooms: Master Ateliers A/B

Ibtissam Jayed
Social Design for cross-culture communities: a critical and decolonial approach (Abstract)

Felix Kosok
From Resentment to Engagement (Abstract)

🟧 Session Chair: Shilpa Das

Martin Wöllenstein, Jana Heinemann, Adriana Jane Swanzy, Romeo Addai-Boateng Akoto, Yaw Andoh Nketsiah Mensah, Kwabena Obiri Yeboah
Disruptions to the process might lead to helpful mutations in the code (Hybrid Lecture Performance) (Abstract)

🟦 Session Chair: Axel Vogelsang

Nomi Geiger, Dana Gez
Curating Absence (Discussion) (Abstract)

14:00

Break

14:15

Closing Panel with Shilpa Das, Chris Kasabach and Vera Sacchetti

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15:45

Wrap-Up & Farewell

16:30

SDN Membermeeting

Hosts

Supporters

Partners

Hosts

Supporters

Partners

A Collaborative Imperative: Embodied Design Pedagogies for Democracy

Tanveer Ahmed

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (London, UK), United Kingdom; t.ahmed@csm.arts.ac.uk

As four design educators from different countries in the global north, and with varied lived experiences, we are alarmed by the global rise of the far right and the weakening of democratic initiatives for social, climate and educational justice. Inequality is rising and human rights are at risk; from the Supreme Court Ruling Act in the UK that means trans women are no longer legally recognised as women, to ongoing rulings against academic freedom on higher education campuses.

What does this erosion of fundamental democratic values, including DEI initiatives, gender equality, indigenous sovereignty, and trans people’s rights, and the rise of the far right across the globe mean for us as design educators – personally and professionally, for our students, our communities, and our institutions? How might design education be used to promote democracy?

We believe there is an urgent need to come together as a community across disciplines to create a critical mass of activist-scholar-educators that embody and enable values of democracy.

We are proposing a workshop to explore the question: how can design educators and students across different disciplines collaborate to face threats to democracy? What would that community of leading learners and learners teach and learn? How would that community (have to) act? What are their responsibilities and possibilities? How can we leverage agency into actions?

This workshop takes inspiration from the kitchen table which has been used as a site of resistance for feminist praxis to develop initiatives, practices, teaching strategies, action plans, ideologies, methods & formats to create transformative ways of engaging our students with the urgent need to recontextualize our current systems of design learning. In multidisciplinary groups, we will work through a series of provocations to facilitate rich exchanges of experiences and development of design pedagogies for democracy.

September 19First Day

September 20Second Day

All Day

Exhibits & Interventions (More)

09:30

Conference Opening

10:15

Flor Avelino: The Power and Prefiguration in Just Sustainability Transitions

11:30 –13:00

Diversity & New Actors

Literacies & Pedagogies

Workshops & Discussions

🟧 Session Chair: Bori Feher

🟦 Session Chair: Karin Fink

13:00

Lunch Break

14:30 –16:00

🟧 Session Chair: Anna Antonakis

🟦 Session Chair: Jan-Christoph Zoels

16:00

Break

16:30 –18:00

🟧 Session Chair: Gilly Karjevski

🟦 Session Chair: Jonathan Ventura

18:00

Apero & Exhibition Opening

19:00

Dinner Workshop

20:30

Party

All Day

Exhibits & Interventions (More)

09:30

Jesko Fezer: Partisan Design as an Oriented Social Practice

10:15

Break

10:30 –12:00

New Conflicts / Old Identities

Literacies & Pedagogies

Workshops & Discussions

🟧 Session Chair: Isabelle Dechamps

🟦 Session Chair: Jens Badura

12:00

Lunch Break

13:00 –14:00

New Conflicts / Old Identities

Diversity & New Actors

Workshops & Discussions

🟧 Session Chair: Shilpa Das

🟦 Session Chair: Axel Vogelsang

14:00

Break

14:15

Closing Panel with Shilpa Das, Chris Kasabach and Vera Sacchetti

15:45

Wrap-Up & Farewell

16:30

SDN Membermeeting

Hosts

Supporters

Partners

Hosts

Supporters

Partners

A Collaborative Imperative: Embodied Design Pedagogies for Democracy

September 19
First Day

September 20
Second Day

11:30 –
13:00

14:30 –
16:00

16:30 –
18:00

10:30 –
12:00

13:00 –
14:00