Taking design`s impact for a walk: a roving panel
27 April, 2024, 9:15-10:45
Conference contribution to Hazarding Design
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Hochschule Luzern, Design und Kunst.
Design is often expected to deliver a desired impact on conditions and relations. Facing the complexity of conditions and relations where design might be at work, an exact line of efficacy seems hardly possible to draw at the other hand. And multiple protagonists in a more-than-human environment, who are involved in co-designing processes, may complicate this question even more.
For many decades, design`s effects seem to be over- and underestimated at the same time. Overestimated for its power to directly shape the forms of complex relationships, and underestimated regarding the transformations that happen on intertwined routes between respective participants in design processes.
This panel aims to discuss respective interdependencies as a challenge and opportunity to rethink a design culture that appears to be deeply rooted in accountability and effectiveness. The panelists will take participants to a discussion-walk to the neighboring Roterwald.
With Monica Gaspar, Francis Müller and Helen Pritchard.