Programma at the HKU.
A multi-disciplinary and collaborative students group from the Utrecht School of the...
Urgent Methods
An exploration of design teaching in the Netherlands in three sharply contrasting views of the discipline. The exhibition shows examples of student projects which the tutors and heads of design departments consider to be typical of their vision of the discipline. Not a full portrait of design education in the Netherlands, but several clearly distinctive visions.
4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 15 November, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators:
Louise Schouwenberg
Curators:
Gert Staal
Contributors:
Jurgen Bey In the year marking the ninetieth anniversary of by far the most influential model of twentieth-century design education – the Bauhaus – Utrecht Manifest explores Dutch design education in terms of its principles, social ambitions and results. In interviews Louise Schouwenberg and Gert Staal found out how key figures in Dutch design education held up specific agendas to their students, under which influences those agendas evolved over time, and what results they have led to.... 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