Are We Human? — Design After Design symposium
Friday, May 13, 201610 AMBST
| AA School of Architecture
London, GBRelated
In this event, the curators, exhibition architect, and some of the London based participants in the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial engage its central theme:
ARE WE HUMAN?: THE DESIGN OF THE SPECIES
200,000 years, 200 years, 2 years, 2 seconds
Organized by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
Design always presents itself as serving the human but its real ambition is to redesign the human. To talk about design is to talk about the state of our species. Humans have always been radically reshaped by the designs they produce and the world of design keeps expanding. We live in a time when everything is designed, from our carefully crafted individual looks and online identities, to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes. Even the planet itself has been completely encrusted by design as a geological layer. There is no longer an outside to the world of design. Design has become the world. The default concept of “good design” that was incubated in London in the mid nineteenth-century is no longer adequate. It is an anesthetic that has worn off. The urgent question is what is design after design?
For information on the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, and the open call for 2 minute videos: http://arewehuman.iksv.org/
Symposium participants include:
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Curators of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial.
Andres Jaque – Office of Political Innovation, exhibition architects.
Eyal Weizman – Forensic Architecture
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Ronnskog – Territorial Agency
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen
with more to follow
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Respondents include:
Deyan Sudjic
Joseph Grima
Mark Cousins
Adrian Forty
Francesca Hughes
More event info here.
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