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Alexander Woollcott
Yadzia Williams / Katerina Antonaki / Marjatta Itkonen Ann Bessemans & Johan Vandebosch
CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DESIGN 17–21.10.2016
POLSKO-JAPOŃSKA AKADEMIA TECHNIK KOMPUTEROWYCH CURATOR Ewa Satalecka EDITORS Andrii Kryvachuk VISUAL IDENTITY SYSTEM Andrii Kryvachuk PROF READING Ewa Satalecka
Warsaw, November 2016
2-5 introduction 6-7 schedule 8-9 maps 10-19 lecturers 20-31 workshops
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OBJECTIVE:
The topic of this year’s course is Civil Society and Democracy. Social design course enables students to apply design proposals in many formats and medias. Students will analyze visual outcomes, work in teams and create communication concepts that will act as a basis for a production they will then design. The objective of this course is also to study how to communicate to different audiencies, how to design a campaign and visual communication of a social importance on a national level. Students will improve their design skills and propose media solutions. First part of the course is focused on several lectures given by experts. Students will also provide a visual diary in order to help them in creating visual concepts. Interesting films are shown in the afternoons.
CONTENT:
Course participants will attend lectures & film screenings, work in teams, present a final design concept, and produce a visual diary. Successful completion of the course will require attendance for 80 % of the course and that all the student’s exercises are completed and approved.
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09.15–10.00 C1 About the course: Social Design – why? Marjatta Itkonen
10.00–11.30 Lecture & discussion: Xxxx David Skully Beata Czajkowska
10.00–10.45 C1 Lecture & discussion: Xxxx Agata Szydlowska 10.45–11.30 Lecture & discussion: Xxxx Monika Rogowska-Stangret
11.30–12.15 Lecture & discussion: Democracy in art Pawel Polit
13.15–14.30 Lecture & discussion: Social activity for civil rights Fillip Wejman Lukasz Bojarski
11.30–12.15 Lecture & discussion: City activism in Helsinki Pauliina Seppälä, Finland
09.00–10.15
09.00–11.15
Student teams Independent work
Student teams Independent work
10.30–11.15 C1 Lecture & discussion Xxxx Agata Czarnecka
SATURDAY
9.15 – 9.45 Ronni Madsen
10.15 – 10.45 Dorota Brzozowska
11.30–12.15 Lecture & discussion Public domain, social media Alek Tarkowski
13.30– 17.00
Student teams Independent work
Student teams Independent work
11.15–12.00 C1 Lecture & discussion: Xxxx Edwin Bendyk
11.15 – 12.00 Katerina Antonaki Alexandra Antonopoulou
Student teams Independent work
11.30 – 12.00 Lorcan Finnegan
12.30 – 13.00 Marta Kaminska
12.30 – 13.15 Lucas Nijs Frederic De Blesser
14.00 – 14.30 – Qubus Jakub Berdych Karpelis Lenka Kohutova
14.15– 14.45 Loesje
14.30 – 15.00 Justyna Kucharczyk
15.30 – 16.00 Peter Stasny Film Red Chapel Directed by Mads Brügger
16.00 – 16.45 Greg Quinton Nicholas Robert Asbury
17.00 – 19.00 Marta Kaminska
Film for all of students Document about Ai Weiwei
10.30 – 11.00 Henning Wagenbreth
12.00 – 12.30 Radu Paraschivescu
main hall, A
main hall, A
10.00 – 10.30 Yadzia Williams
13.15– 14.00 Activism in Warsaw Xxxxxx
14.00– 17.30
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9.30 – 10.00 Anna Machwic
12.00– 12.30 Madalena Martins
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break 15.30
9.00 Welcome Tea/coffee
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
13.30– 17.00
14.30– 15.15 Lecture & discussion: Marta Kaminska
9.00 welcome: Martin Meisel
9.45 – 10.15 Susanne Dechant
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FRIDAY 8.30 Registration
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TUESDAY
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Film The Salt of the Earth Wim Wenders, Sebastiao Salgado
17.00 – 19.00 Marjatta Itkonen Ma students proposals review social design discussion based on students presentations
14.45– 17.45 Loesje 14.45 – 17.45 Family Workshops Yadzia Williams, Anna Machwic, Jan Bajtlik Silent Disco
SOCIAL DESIGN COURSE CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY Marjatta Itkonen MA students orphan building Yadzia Williams 1st year of BA 120A Ann Bessemans & Johan Vandebosch 2nd year of BA 025C Katerina Antonaki 2rd year of BA C10 back door
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies
BUILDING A, lvl -1 — Caffee
BUILDING A, lvl 0 — Aula
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BUILDING A, lvl 1 — 120
BUILDING A, lvl 2
BUILDING A, lvl 3 — Senate
BUILDING C, lvl -1 025 —
BUILDING C, lvl 1 Hall C1 —
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Xerox Registration Caffee Elevator Stairs
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Marjatta Itkonen SOCIAL DESIGN – WHY? Born in Helsinki, Marjatta is graphic designer and professor emerita. She studied Polish language at the University of Lodz and after that graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She graduated year 1976 and did her MA poster design at HenrykTomaszewski’s studio. She ran her design company Studio Viiva and was working as a graphic designer till 2010. She was selected a professor of graphic design year 2002 at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Her cadency came to an end year 2014.Her special interest is social design and also real life project studies for MA students.
She has been a board member of Finnish Graphic Designers Association Grafia and a board member of Finnish design magazine Muoto.She has participated in several international poster biennales as a jury member, as a designer and speaker. She has provided social poster workshops in Finland, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland and several times in Mexico.She has also participated as a jury member in several other design competitions in Finland.
Marta Kaminska – z wyksztalcenia pedagog, animator kultury. Od 2010 roku pracuje w Centrum Nauki Kopernik, obecnie jako koordynator zespolu opiekunów galerii. Od poczatku 2015 roku zafascynowana sztuka improwizacji teatralnej. Brala udzial w warsztatach improwizacji teatralnej w warszawskiej Szkole Impro oraz w teatrach iO i Annoyance w Chicago. Improwizuje w grupach 1000 DEN i Maki Boskie.
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IMPROV – THEATRE OF LIFE Improv theatre is a theatre of life. Its rules helps to live a better life. It can be use as a tool to improve social skills and to teach democracy. The beginnings of modern improvisational theater dates back to the 20s of the twentieth century and work of Neva Boyd and Viola Spolin at Hull House in Chicago. One of the goals of this settlement house was providing education and recreational facilities for European immigrant women and children. Methods of improv theatre are still used in social work in Poland in project “Duzy pies nie szczeka” (Big dog does not bark) to teach students how to stop hate speech.
MONDAY, HALL, BUILDING C
Marta Kamińska
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Tomasz Duda environmental psychologist, working with local communities, specialist in aging policy, lecturer at the Medical University of Warsaw. Associate Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue.
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Tomasz Duda PUBLIC CONSULTATION - DISCOVERING THE NEEDS OF THE USERS OF PUBLIC SPACES The most important thing in public consultations is the ability to explore needs. People who use the public space have their behavior, habits, feelings about this space. The main task of the consultant is to discover these features and to propose solutions that will meet the needs. Therefore, one of the most important things is to have a wide range of research tools to explore the human needs and intentions. Such as: questionnaires, cognitive maps, evaluation map, observation sheets, sheets depth interviews and many others
A very important feature of the tool to the public consultation is their visual appeal, which is very helpful. Dialogue crates spaces to improve communication and cooperation in divided communities. Successful dialogue builds bridges of trust and understanding that enable the participants to work for a more inclusive society. To do this people must be treated as equals and with respects. That means to walk alongside them and strengthen them in their struggles. The precondition of this works it the belief that the good in man is stranger than the destructive forces.
Agata Szydłowska is design writer and curator. She lectures on the history of design and the intersections between design and culture. Her main interests are the social and political aspects of design.
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DESIGNING CIVIL SOCIETY Civil society develops when citizens take a shared responsibility for their surroundings: from the closest one such as an apartment house, to the most general, such as a country. A well functioning civil society doesn’t however evolve on its own. Especially in the post-communist countries such as Poland, it is commonly said that it hasn’t been formed yet. The neoliberal economics makes the situation even worse as the citizen tend to rely only on their individual financial resources and the members of close family. The effect of a weak civil
society can be seen on many European streets where a lack of empathy and a feeling of a responsibility towards other citizens leads to aggression drawn upon nationalism and other racist sentiments. The presentation will focus on showing and discussing design projects which aim to help in facilitating the development of civil society: from websites which encourage citizens to grow an interest in local politics to grassroots initiatives related to the urban cleanliness.
TUESDAY, HALL BUILDING C
Agata Szydłowska
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Pawel Polit is a writer on art, curator at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz. He curated exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, among others: Peter Downsbrough (1994), Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art. Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975 (1999), Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Philosophical Margins (2004), Martin Creed (2004), Bruce Nauman (2009), Hanna Luczak (2010); he co-curated exhibitions Ryszard Stanislawski. Open Museum (2006) and Wlodzimierz Borowski. Network of Time (MoMA in Warsaw, 2010). Curator of exhibitions at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz: The Themersons and the Avant-Garde (2013), Jeremy Millar (2014), Andrzej Czarnacki (2015); co-curator of the exhibition DADA Impulse (2015). Published widely in exhibition catalogues and periodicals: Afterall, ARTMargins, Obieg, Piktogram.
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Paweł Polit PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL DESIGN: FROM MINIMALISM TO RELATIONAL AESTHETICS In the 1960s a new artistic attitude manifested itself, the one which questioned the traditional principle of separation between art and life. Subsumed under the labels of Minimalism and Performance Art, the new practices depended heavily on the viewer’s involvement in the structure of a work and were considered as incomplete without her/ him. They subverted the traditional notion of a creative subject as the source of meaning (“the subject supposed to know”). Making use of the psychological mechanism of transference, they introduced the notion of an artwork as an act of negotiating one’s own position in a public space. The lecture will provide the survey of practices resultant from this shift. It will
present both the historical instances of a more confrontational type of relationship between a work and its beholder, as exemplified in the work of Robert Morris, Richard Serra and Vito Acconci, and the type of relationship declared as inclusive with regard to a viewer, reflective of the principles of Relational Aesthetics. The latter movement, emergent in the mid-1990s and theorized by Nicholas Bourriaud, exemplified in the work of a number of contemporary artists, such as Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick, Gillan Wearing, Thomas Hirshorn, seeks to construct “places of collective elaboration, interactions between different people, each bringing with them their history, their competence, their labour”.
Pauliina Seppälä is the founder of Mesenaatti, Nappinaapuri, Yhteismaa and Refugee Hospitality Group. She is a true specialist of growdsourcing and sharing economy! Sharing economy is a combination of ancient communality and communication possibilities that modern technology made available. Mesenatti.me is the biggest rewards growdfunding service in Finland. You may find funding to your project through a campaign at Mesenaatti.me.
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CITY ACTIVISM IN HELSINKI Seppälä has studied business administration, social work, social Policy and communication. Now she combines all this in her work. She is interested in what does not exist yet but could become possible. She wants to create more opportunities to all people to build one’s own and common future. Nappi Naapuri was selected as one among five best concepts among more than four hundred proposals in a Nordic innovation competition. “I skate where the puck is going, not where it’s been.” (Wayne Krezky)
TUESDAY, HALL BUILDING C
Pauliina Seppala
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born in 1981, Agata is a philosopher of politics, a journalist and a translator. She worked for the Polish government in the capacity of a communication officer (for the Bureau of the Government’s Plenipotentiary for Equal Status of Women and Men and Combatting Discrimination, 2004-2005), a teacher of critical thinking and religious education for the British School, Warsaw, as ethics, history of philosophy, gender studies, political thought and media theory lecturer at the University of Warsaw, The Polish Academy of Science and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She translated about 16 books from the areas of philosophy, social sciences, political sciences and economy, and one theatre play. For three years, she was a democracy advisor to one of the parliamentary clubs in the Polish Sejm.
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Agata Czarnacka DEMOCRACY MEANS TALKING She is currently working on her doctoral thesis which is consecrated to the notions of norm and normality in psychoanalysis and feminism. She is persuaded that these rarely-explained concepts hold key to understanding of how personal changes impact social change, and the other way round. She also has a blog in Polityka.pl site, titled Grand Central, in which she aims at explaining how democracy works in its various dimensions.
In her journalism, Agata mostly focuses on European politics and domestic constitutional crisis. Agata is also a political activist. She was to be found among the leaders of social protests against a drastic surveillance law passed in early 2016 (Stop Inwigilacji 2016) or against restrictions of reproductive rights (RatujmyKobiety). She also helped structuring an academic protest against marginalisation of humanities, KomitetObronyHumanistyki.
Alek Tarkowski (1977). Sociologist, director of Centrum Cyfrowe, a think-and-do-tank building a digital civic society in Poland. Public Lead of Creative Commons Poland, the Polish branch of the global organization promoting flexible copyright models for creators, for which he also works as European Policy Fellow. Member of the Administrative Council of Communia, a European association supporting the digital public domain. His fields of expertise include free culture, open and digital education, and open models for content production and distribution.
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HOW TO BUILD A DIGITAL CIVIL SOCIETY? As we become more and more surrounded by digital environments, we should ask ourself: are they a public space, a commons? can a digital civil society thrive in them? During my talk I will propose a way of thinking about digital resources in terms of the commons, and of social media as a digital public sphere. I will show the challenges that we are facing, and ways to move forward.
WEDNESDAY, HALL BUILDING C
Alek Tarkowski
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Graduated Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in 2016, bA diploma under a supervision of prof Ewa Satalecka. Focused on type-design. Awarded a TDC Students Scholarship. Since 2008 taking part and observing the street art movement.
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Maciej Połczyński WELCOME TO THE GALLERY Who, why and how? Couple of words about Warsaw street art, and street art itself. “[…]Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put of by the price of admission. A wall has always been the best place to publish your work” Banksy – ”Wall and Piece”
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Monika Rogowska-Stangret is a theorist and researcher in the fields of philosophy, gender studies and animal studies. She collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. She is the author of “The Body – Beyond Otherness and Sameness. Three Figures of the Body in Contemporary Philosophy” (in Polish, słowo/ obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2016). She is a Member of Management Committee of European network: “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’”, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Action IS 1307 and a chair of the 7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms. Performing Situated Knowledges: Time, Space, Vulnerability.
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ETHICS OF THE PUBLIC LIFE In this lecture I would attempt to sketch a map of conflicts and crises that emerge today with reference to the concepts around which this year’ssocial design course evolves, namely: civil society and democracy. I will try to find ways to approach today’s crises and find zones of proximity with the past events and philosophies by situating the present moment in its genealogy, conceptual and historical context. This diagnosis of the condition of democracy today will be also accompanied by an effort to explain reasons for the present situation from the perspective of ethics. Both democracy and civil society might be considered through the transformations of private and public spheres and its ethical aspects. I will try
to demonstrate that one of the solutions to the “state of emergency” we find ourselves confronted with today is through introducing a distinction between ethics of private life and ethics of public life. I will circumscribe both notions and present differences between them. Finally, using a few examples from the contemporary debates, I will invite participants to think what does it mean to include ethics in solving social problems and controversies.
TUESDAY, HALL, BUILDING C
Monika RogowskaStranget
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IMMIGRATING MESSAGES In this workshop, the immigration crisis and the way the Polish government deals with this crisis and how this influences the perception of the rest of the world on Poland will be denounced. This will be dealt with through powerful and easy accessible typographic messages. The inclination towards a more racist handling considering immigration in Poland is almost exclusively based on lack of exposure to foreign nationalities, especially those of a southern,
African or Arabic origin. Most Poles have never or barely seen a dark skinned person and very few had any meaningful interaction with people of other races, cultures and religions. Poles are not used to be exposed to people of other cultural backgrounds and origins. As a consequence, they seem to have a rather small tolerance towards these people and therefore can hardly even imagine that other people can be different. Whereas in most
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these views. Luckily, there are so many open minded, tolerant and wise people out there but their voices are barely heard. Wouldn’t you like to change the government and the way immigration is treated, and how the rest of the world looks at Poland? Put all of your strength together to make a statement that there is also a different face of Polish people. If your politicians send out bad or even wrong messages to the world, it is your duty to fight against it. Let’s not be indifferent to spreading fear and ignorance that often leads to aggression and violence. Let’s take our stand using transnational language of graphic design! We want you to think about strong English messages/ quotes to confront Polish people with new ways of thinking. Communicate political messages that are important and relevant. Use typography, design with letters. The story of typography is a story of immigration. You will not design for a paper purpose like a booklet or a poster, but your media are white plastic/brown paper bags. In that way, messages will be easily spread around in society, houses and interaction in a direct, easily accessible and seeable manner, and communication will lift up.
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Western countries, interracial socialization and even marriages are normal, in Poland, where the majority of the people are white, European and catholic, it is very hard to be anything else. Ethnic purges and decades of isolation behind the Iron Curtain may explain to a degree why any kind of physical or sartorial ‘abnormality’ seems to attract a lot more negative attention in Poland than elsewhere. In Poland, the center right and far right political parties get most of the votes. The people that do vote during elections in Poland vote for either right wing, center-right or far right which makes them unfortunately appear as a racist nation. Less that 20% vote for liberal parties. What is even more worrying is that the Polish society is currently supporting far right parties, which are often ‘inspired’ by Neo-Nazism and other awful doctrines. Poland, as a post-communist country, was in its history isolated from the rest of the Western world and other cultures. It seems that this is often used as a kind of racist apology, but the ‘fear of other cultures’ is now used to spread racist behaviors by political parties. Unfortunately, the majority of the society likes to turn a blind to this or even defend this kind of disgraceful attitude with various excuses. This is one of the reasons why Poland doesn’t have a high rate of immigration. Due to the rise of terrorism and extremist groupings, Europe is facing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Thousands of people are forced to leave their homes and look for safety in foreign countries. Ideas and values crucial to the European Union and international agreements oblige all EU member states to provide refugees with asylum and assistance. Nevertheless, many politicians voice their objection towards those moral and legal obligations. Hate speech is rampant, and worldwide, xenophobia and islamophobia have never been so alive and keep growing day by day. Please be aware that this is currently how the world sees Poland because the Polish government is representing
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Dr.Ann Bessemans has a MA in graphic design. Her typographic graduation project was awarded. In October 2012, she defended her PhD (Type Design for Children with Low Vision), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerard Unger. For her PhD she was granted two scholarships by Microsoft. Currently she works as a postdoctoral researcher at PXL-MAD (Media Arts & Design), where she also teaches graphic design, typography and type design. She is awarded twice a grant from Microsoft for projects on visual prosody. Ann was a finalist in the ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2015’ competition, which recognises early career researchers in the sciences. Ann is also involved in European COST Action that studies the evolution of Reading in the age of Digitisation. She has presented papers and gave workshops on several occasions both in Belgium and abroad.
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Ann Basemans Ann Bessemans was elected member for the following five years of the Young Academy (an initiative of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium). Young Academy members foster scientific/ artistic communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and debate with policy makers. The Young Academy offers an excellent platform to organize workshops and emphasise good practices and programs. In March 2016 Ann was one of the TEDx speakers. In the summer of 2015 Ann founded a Research Institute called READSEARCH. As a research group, READSEARCH focuses on reading research. Type design and/or typography is looked at from a multidisciplinary and scientific perspective, but always with a practical attitude. The artistic practice forms next to, based on and in dialogue with experimental, but theoretically funded research a substantial share.
READSEARCH provides a unique environment that brings together design researchers, typeface designers, scientists, students and stakeholders through research, courses and documentation.READSEARCH investigates different topics: Rhythm & Legibility, Rhythm & Reading Comfort, Readers with a Visual Impairment, Visual Prosody, Dyslectic Readers, Beginning Readers, Homogeneity & Heterogeneity in typefaces and Reading Ergonomics. Ann is also an award winning independent designer(since 2013). In 2014 she designed a postage stamp for the Belgian postal company that contained 606 words, a Guinness World Record. Her research/design interests: typography, font design, legibility, reading, graphic design, book design, letter press and modular systems.
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Johan Vandebosh Johan regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. Since 2000 he teaches Graphic Design at the PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt. Recently he started, with his colleague dr. Tom Lambeens, the research project‘Le Prince Evêque’. It is characterized by the tangible and physical. Our main goal is to give print a renaissance in this digital era.
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Johan Vandebosch studied Graphic Design at PHIKO, formerPXL-MAD, in Hasselt. After an internship at the advertising agency Conquest Europe / Fast in Brussels, he joined the graphic studio of the faculty of Architecture at the University of Hasselt. In 1994 he started his own graphic studio ‘ziezo’, where he designed, for over twenty years, the visual communications for the culturecentre DE VELINX in Tongeren and where he worked with national and international artists from various disciplines. He designed the identities for numerous companies and institutes such as the fashion label LES HOMMES and MAD-faculty, as well as books for publishers Lannooand Borgerhoff & Lamberigts. Since 2001 Johan is part of ‘Design Flanders’, an organization of the Flemish Governement who promotes contemporary, high-quality and innovative design. In 2009 he received the Plantin-Moretus Prize for the best designed book in Flanders in the category children books. In 2008 and 2009 Johan was nominated twice for the ‘Cobra Power of Print’ for his designs for the cultural centre DE VELINX.
Your letters and design have to travel and take in one of the following elements in their design and/or lay-out. Think about the elements that might strengthen your message the most.
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For the typography you will have the following design limitations:
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Choose a typeface (lowercase and/or capital): • Georgia • Candara • Cambria • Helvetica • Courier Choose a design characteristic for your typeface: • Repetition • Inline / Outline • Movement • Dimension • Perspective • Rotation • Skew Choose a tool for type which will be made by hand (lettering / calligraphy) and will be combined with your chosen typeface: • Thick marker • Thin marker • Pencil • Brush • Charcoal
For the lay-out of the typographic message you will have the following design limitations. Choose one of the following patterns: • Wavy pattern • Staircase pattern • Rhombus pattern • Circle pattern • Pattern in triangle
Choose one of the following graphic elements: • Circle • Triangle • Square • Rhombus • Trapezium • Spiral Planning: Homework: • Make groups of 4 students • Have a discussion about politics and immigration. In your group come up with a strong and short message (about immigration politics) you think is worth spread among Poles. • Choose and link of each category (typeface, characteristics, tool, pattern…) 1 option then will enforce your message and which you will use during the workshop. • Make this discussion, message and the chosen elements clear in PDF presentation that you mail to us before 18 October 2016.
Materials you have to bring to the workshop: • Your computer • Access to a printer and/or copier • Thick black markers • Thin black markers • Paintbrush • Brush (thick and thin) • Black paint and/or ink • Charcoal • Tracing paper • Paper • Pencil & Eraser • Ruler • Protractor • Paper bags! Preferable white.
Tuesday: • Start manipulating your chosen digital font (only the letters that you will need!) • Experiment with your hand lettering/ calligraphic techniques and the material connected to it. Wednesday: • Start thinking about a possible lay-out taking into account your design restrictions • Get everything together on paper. Turn your quote/message into several A3 posters (=different lay-outs, at least 8) !
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Thursday: • Copy your best design on the bag(s)! • Presentation
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DEMO – (AS WE SAY DEMOCRACY) Creating visual dialogues / creation of blog. Students will be visual dialoguers for a week.
Democracy is challenged nowadays, whereas the argument of taking decisions in the name of democracy, has been used lately in such variable and contradictory ways, that many times leads to babel, misunderstandings, and social dichotomies; the title of the workshop is a straight forward critique on this. We, as societies, need to re-think words and meanings from the very begging and possibly invent new ones.
Thus, demo ̶ stands for democracy. Students are asked to displace themselves from the greek word ‘dēmos’ that constitutes the word democracy and think of it as demo (demonstrate). Moreover, dialogue is a fundamental pre-requirement of democracy, also a basic tool for members of a society to express, defend and spread their arguments.
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Katerina Antonaki is an independent graphic designer and researcher. She is a visiting lecturer at Graphic Design Department, TEI of Athens since 2013. Her work ranges from brand identity and editorial design, to spatial design. Along with her design practice, she is involved in education and urban research projects. Her research interests include, the activist role of graphic design (the visual and textual aspects of communication) at the social and political level, disruptive actions in public space, the role of spontaneity in design process, design methodologies. She has studied in London, Helsinki and Athens and she holds an “MA in Design Critical theory and practice� from Goldsmiths University of London. She is an IKY scholar. Her practice and research has been presented in international conferences and exhibitions. She lives and works in Athens.
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Graphic designer Researcher Visiting Lecturer at TEI of Athens Department of Graphic Design
Current research projects: READABLE ATHENS: The sound dimension of the visual noise of public printed information. http://readableathens.tumblr.com/ GERANIUM FILES: A research project for new approaches in multilingual neighbourhoods. facebook.com/geraniumfiles/
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Katerina Antonaki
WORKSHOP: attendance: 17 graphic design students (3rd year) hours / days: 4 days – 22 hours
Necessites:
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• Studio space with projector for quick presentations. Students could work with their laptops or else computer room will be needed for the preparation of visual material. Also the possibility to upload material on the blog.
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• variable materials (choice of students): • Sketch books • Note books • Internet access • Camera • Mobile phones Optionally: We will use open platform blog tumblr or wordpress but It would be appreciated assistance from IT department in case needed for special design requirements regarding the design of the blog.
2. The process
Lecture on activism and communication design in the public terrain, presentation of art and design projects related to social issues, also to the notion of “awaking and/ or engaging� local communities on social issues. Contemporary graphic Design practice is moving from the notion of design solving to designing infrastructures to give to users/audience. Examples of actions and interventions in public space that could be considered as social campaigns because they gained qualities of viral and they evoked public dialogue. It will be mentioned briefly notions such as: making semantic connections through experiencing the space, the role of embodiment and corporeal experience. The projects presented will be both new media projects using technology and projects based on traditional media.
The process is simple: One student chooses the first image and the other responds to it visually (2nd image) by creating a new image that refers to the first or by abstracting, adding or even changing elements of the initial image. Then the other responds to it (3rd image) and so does the other (4th image). Students are asked to create one at least dialogue per day reflecting to the input received from the lectures, movies, classroom discussions of the day. The finished dialogues will be uploaded every day on the blog. Students are free to think and decide collectively the design concept and layout of the blog and present initial ideas by the end of the workshop. Due to time limitations though, we can use ready templates of the platforms.
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Title: How public space can provide inspiration for design practice. Designing social campaigns and interventions in public terrain.
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1. Introductory lecture
Students are asked to get in pairs of two and create visual dialogues. The visual dialogues will be formed from a sequence of maximum 4 images. Students are asked to work and think thoroughly on the images they produce and handle them as arguments of their visual dialogue. The pairs will simultaneously built the blog of the project (use of open platform tumblr or wordpress). The final presentation of the outcome will be digital and be presented ideally through the blog.
WORKSHOPS MONDAY-THURSDAY, C10
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3. Notes:
4. The goal
• One at least, visual dialogue for each day of the social design course. Meaning students would need to prepare a dialogue also for Monday. • Maximum two dialogues per day should be produced. • Students need to prepare a dialogue also for Monday. • Students are encouraged for the creation of those “images” to use multiple mediums, enhance both their visual language and their understanding of the diversities of the meaning “democracy”. • At each final visual dialogue it is expected to be clear the argument. • The images could be a variable of material: personal designs, photographs, typo notes (handwritten or digitally designed), snap shots from videos, films, animations, articles, literature, poems. • Moving images (gifs, short movies, animations) are more than welcomed! • Part of the dialogue could also be sound documents. • It is required, each image (part of the visual dialogue) to have some kind of personal design or intervention made (no copy-paste is accepted). e.g. if somebody chooses to answer with a snap shot from a movie then he/she needs to additionally work on the image or change the subtitles. If a student chooses to answer with a small saying, then typography is important. • Think of the final visual dialogue as one collective piece of design. • Act as if you had the possibility to create only one image to express your idea (concept – concept – concept) • Be polite and patient with your pair. Make dialogue! • Enjoy!
Work both individually and in teams to produce communal final designs and built visual dialogues. Students are challenged to create content through the process of semantic interconnections, through the use of multiple mediums and by using the metaphor of dialogue. Deepen to abstract ideas and visually express arguments. Also, organize and display the outcomes online and create digital narratives - at this point it is important to think of the possibilities of the medium, and the possible extensions and interactions e.g. with social networks, other webpages, even public space by the use of QR codes. Final result is the creation of the blog: creating meaningful concepts collectively, being able to argue on personal opinions visually, working with texts and images, producing interesting concepts and narratives, producing digital material that could be further used in the design of the social campaign. The blog, should work as a collective tank of ideas and reflections. Students are asked to challenge their understanding of the concept of democracy and the idea of working collectively (been members of a society).
WORKSHOPS 31
MONDAY-THURSDAY, C10
I'M TIRED OF HEARING IT SAID THAT DEMOCRACY
DOESN'T DOESN'T WORK. WORK.
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DOESN'T DOESN'T WORK. WORK.
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Alexander Woollcott
Yadzia Williams / Katerina Antonaki / Marjatta Itkonen Ann Bessemans & Johan Vandebosch
CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DESIGN 17–21.10.2016