Programma at the HKU.
A multi-disciplinary and collaborative students group from the Utrecht School of the...
The third edition of Utrecht Manifest, UM 2009, is intended to draw attention to the question of how and where the social is produced today: not thematically, but by approaching the cultural models of which biennials are usually composed, such as the museum exhibition, the educational project, the model of the real intervention, and even the communication trajectory, primarily as social models that each raise the question of what the need and urgency of social design is.
The result of this method is that each part of the programme is specific instead of being illustrative, so that the perspective on the social emerges from the model itself. This makes it interesting for visitors to visit the whole biennial. Instead of only seeing one part, in each part they are offered a completely separate answer to a specific question and can thus experience the complexity and even the contradictions of social design. Each section has a parallel programme of its own consisting of films and videos, temporary and improvised presentations, meetings in the form of dinners or teas, and more regular lectures and debates.
Rent a bike and visit all locations, special UM rental rate of € 5 with a ticket from Centraal Museum (Bring ID and a deposit of € 200, to be refunded afterwards). Valid until 14 February 2010.
UM 2009 consists of five projects
NOW ON SHOW:
Unresolved Matters: Social Utopias Revisited
Revisiting the shaping of the social since the 20th century. In Centraal Museum, Nicolaaskerkhof 10, Utrecht (04.10.2009-14.02.2010)
User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution
A one-year real experiment in which the private space is the starting point for questions on the social in relation to the residents, the neighbours, the neighbourhood and the city. In Casco House, p/a Bemuurde Weerd OZ 18B, Utrecht (04.10.2009-03.10.2010)
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Urgent Methods: Design Education Examined
An exploration of design teaching in the Netherlands in several sharply contrasting views of the discipline. In Jongeriusvilla, Kanaalweg 64, Utrecht
(04.10.209-15.11.2009)
United Minds: Hoograven Invites You!
Analyses and visualisations of the urban area Hoograven that challenge visitors to join in thinking about social design and urban development. In De Pastoe Fabriek, Rotsoord 3, Utrecht (04.10-08.11.2009)
Unforeseen Magic
Central location of UM 2009 with activities centred on the question: What is social design? In CM Studio, Agnietenstraat 2, Utrecht (04.10.2009-18.10.2009)... more
Opening 16 January 2010, 17.00
Open forum 17 January 2010, 14.00–17.00 (see below)
Casco's first project in the year in which it celebrates its 20th anniversary looks back at a project that took place 20 years ago on another continent. Organized as part of our year-long programme ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’, Casco’s contribution to Utrecht Manifest–Biennial for Social Design, this signals another step in exploring how critical art, design and cultural practice affect society.... more
Openingstoespraak Abram de Swaan
Utrecht, 04.10.09... more
When Guus Beumer, artistic director of the Utrecht Manifest: Biennial for Social Design, asked me what I would like to contribute to the 2009 edition, I responded with a programme called Ultimate Meeting. I would invite a strat... more
Text by Farabi Fakih
Source: Karbon Journal, published by ruangrupa
http://www.karbonjournal.org/en/archives/detail.php?ID_focus=4
The 1996 launching of ‘Kota Legenda’ or the ‘City of Legends’ near the
Jakarta – Cikampek toll road might be one significant mark for a new era of Indonesian imaginations. The City of Legends is Indonesia’s first ‘travel town’. The styles of the houses offered are varied and a kitsch: You can buy a house in the style of the American Colonial, Classical Europe, or Japan. This is the promise: the world in your hands, without your having to leave Indonesia. This was also what the Jakarta middle class wanted due to the shifts that they and their country had been experiencing since 1985. Thse shifts created fragmented imaginations about new identities, which in turn would affect the imagination on Indonesia itself.
I think that the "Social Design" needs to be a platform and not a design proposal.
Most of the proposals are related with the creation of design but not with the cohesion of society, culture and integrations.
"Social Design" could be projected as an starting point for mutual compromises between the designers and the handcrafts, citizens, users, artists, developers, etc. for creating useful meanings and designs. Then the "Social Design" platform will shows the cohesion between them and be use as a creative generator of connections. (Social connections)... more
door Coen van Kasteel. Te verschijnen bij Begijnekade 18 Uitgevers.... more
HIGH RISE / DOWN FALL
A project by Johannes Schwartz
Essay by Patrick Healy
In the same series: High Noon ( 2003), High Nature ( 2004), HighLight / HighBold (2005).
High Rise was published on the occasion of the exhibition Now and Again that took place in October 2005 at Pastoe, Utrecht.
Down Fall was published on the occasion of an exhibition that took place later that year, at Marres, Maastricht. Both shows were curated by Guus Beumer e.a.
Copyright (c) 2005 JohannesSchwartz
An Alphabet of Space
The Dutch Pavilion, Hanover
October 2005... more
- zekerheden vallen weg (economische crisis, schandalen rond overheden) en mensen staan open voor nieuwe ideeën en manieren om vorm te geven aan het leven. Uiteindelijk is het wel menseigen om te zoeken naar zekerheden en structuren. Experimenten en concepten zijn dan ook het meest effectief als ze resulteren in (business)modellen die het gereedschap bieden tot praktische toepassing.... more