DESIGN & POLITICS DO NOT MIX
RE
DESIGN GOVERNMENT
NOW!
In the Political Arena Prototyping Policy Redisigning Democracy
DESIGN &
POLITICS
POLITICS
THE POLITICAL
THE POLITICAL =/
POLITICS
POLITICS
“…is a set of practices and institutions through which an order is created”
POLITICS Mouffe
THE POLITICAL
THE POLITICAL
“…is the dimension of antagonism which is constitutive of human societies”
Mouffe
THE POLITICAL “…space of freedom and public deliberation”
Arendt
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS
“…most often works to improve access to information or to improve the access to various forms of ordered expression and action; it emphasizes techniques of merging form and content in aesthetically compelling and functionally appropriate ways to support the means of governance”
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS DiSalvo
POLITICAL
DESIGN
POLITICAL
DESIGN “…attempts to reveal, question and challenge prevailing conditions and structures (hegemonies) in our society; it opens space for contestation and suggests new practices”
DiSalvo
RE
DESIGN GOVERNMENT
NOW!
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS
(PARTITIONED UNIT OF)
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS
DESIGN THINKING
(INSTRUMENTALIZED)
DESIGN THINKING (FOR CORPORATIONS)
Refreshing local-level politics.
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS Potentiality
Antanas Mockus - Bogotรก
Applying partitioned units of design to local policies resulting in, for example, gentrification
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS Risk
“Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics�
Sarah Kendzior - Hipster Economics
‘Poor but sexy’ - Berlin
DOES
EINDHOVEN WANT TO BE THE
NEW BERLIN ?
DESIGN FOR
POLITICS
POLITICAL
DESIGN
Eindhoven - Oct/2012
THE
OTHER MARKET
THE
OTHER MARKET
“…Is a platform, materialized in a series of carts and stalls, to trade products and services without money, using dialogue as a currency. The carts and stalls are made embracing the aesthetics of informality, aiming to create a contrast with over-planned and over-designed societies; this is also the main aspect to trigger dialogues on the streets. The Other Market affirms the public space as a place for participation and contestation”
Eindhoven - April 5/2013
Eindhoven - April 19/2013
Utrecht - May 4/2013
Den Haag - Sep 26/2013
Rotterdam - Nov 26/2013
Budapest - Dec 10/2013
Leuven - May 10/2014
WHAT
DESIGN CAN DO FOR PUBLIC SPACE
Amsterdam - May 10/2014
I AM JUST
(AN)OTHER
DESIGNER
POLITICIZE
DESIGN BEFORE
(RE)DESIGNING
POLITICS