Day 1 · Nov 6
10:00
Registration and Coffee
10:30
Introduction
Welcome
Marc Pfaff (BIRD / New Practice)
Marc Pfaff (BIRD / New Practice)
Opening Address
Why Designers are such Good People, self image of a profession
Wolfgang Jonas (BIRD)
Why Designers are such Good People, self image of a profession
Wolfgang Jonas (BIRD)
11:00
INTELLIGENT IMAGINATIONS
Chair: Michelle Christensen (BIRD / TU Berlin / UdK)
Co-Desirable AI Futures
Freyja van den Boom (University of Antwerp)
Freyja van den Boom (University of Antwerp)
Real, False-Worlds: Using a Truth Hidden at the Centre of Generative AI Image-Making
David Normington (E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw)
David Normington (E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw)
12:30
Lunch Break
13:45
INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS
Chair: Tom Bieling (BIRD / HfG Offenbach)
Designing the Small Democracy of Rathlin Island
Brian Morgan (Belfast School of Art)
Brian Morgan (Belfast School of Art)
Institutional Disorientations: Spirallings within Entrenched Infrastructures
Isabella Brandalise (Monash University)
Isabella Brandalise (Monash University)
15:15
Coffee Break
16:00
ECOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS
Chair: Michelle Christensen
New Weather TV: Ecological Imaginaries of the Weather Report
Simone Fehlinger (Saint Étienne / Strasbourg / Potsdam)
Simone Fehlinger (Saint Étienne / Strasbourg / Potsdam)
Seed, Potato, Pixel: Ants, Humans, Algorithms
L. C. Kurth / A. Mac-Nelly / M. Z. Rosenberg / M. Baraitser Smith (UdK / TU Berlin)
L. C. Kurth / A. Mac-Nelly / M. Z. Rosenberg / M. Baraitser Smith (UdK / TU Berlin)
17:30
Short Break
17:45
Book Launch: NERD III & Nutzen statt Besitzen revisited
18:00
Keynote Address
Manifesto Madness
Peter Friedrich Stephan (Academy of Media Arts Cologne)
Peter Friedrich Stephan (Academy of Media Arts Cologne)
Day 2 · Nov 7
09:30
Coffee
09:45
Short Introduction to the Day
10:00
POST/DIGITAL PARADIGMS
Chair: Marc Pfaff (BIRD / New Practice)
Postdigital Neobaroque (PDNB)
Marjan Colletti (University of Innsbruck)
Marjan Colletti (University of Innsbruck)
What Even is Design(ed) in Generative World Models?
Lars Pinkwart (University of Zurich / ZHdK)
Lars Pinkwart (University of Zurich / ZHdK)
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS
Chair: Tom Bieling (BIRD / HfG Offenbach)
Grasping Knowledge: Tangible Devices for Gesture-Based Inquiry
Fabiana Marotta / Lorenzo Esposito (University of Naples Federico II)
Fabiana Marotta / Lorenzo Esposito (University of Naples Federico II)
12:45
Lunch Break
14:00
DECENTERED DISCOURSES
Chair: Uta Brandes (BIRD)
Democracy by Design? Political Potentials of Design Theory
Felix Kosok (German International University, Berlin)
Felix Kosok (German International University, Berlin)
Designs from Southwomen: Historicizing Ecuadorian Women’s Lifeworlds
Ana Belén Palacios (HGK Basel FHNW / University of Arts Linz)
Ana Belén Palacios (HGK Basel FHNW / University of Arts Linz)
Omitted Needless Words: A Linguistic Design Audit
Evija Krištopane (Dutch Art Institute, Amsterdam)
Evija Krištopane (Dutch Art Institute, Amsterdam)
16:15
Closing Discussion
17:00
End of Conference