Programma at the HKU.
A multi-disciplinary and collaborative students group from the Utrecht School of the...
social design
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
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
What does social design mean to you? Could you give some direction to how you would define social design?
It would be naïve to assume that a social design is always good, just because social processes are always good. Neither is true. Social design can be used to ends as good, or bad, as the social processes it reflects.... more
Bij onderzoek naar social design in Utrecht kom je al snel op het identiteitsvraagstuk van de stad. De wederkerende discussie over de ontwikkeling van Utrecht als metropool versus een meer behoudende koers en het koesteren van kleinschaligheid in Utrecht - de zogenaamde ‘identiteitscrisis’ waar soms aan wordt gerefereerd - maakt nieuwsgierig naar de ziel van de stad.... more