What is “design”? How does it create its own space, make history, and shape the future today? What is its timeline? Where does design intersect with nature, the individual, and society, and what are its humanistic foundations?
With each passing day, more and more questions arise. We will try to answer many of them by tracing the creation and evolution of the world of design.
Five lectures on design by Anna Chirva.
1. Design — Space: on the boundaries of the world of design and the diversity of its objects. (29.10.2014)
What is design? Its styles and movements, icons and creators. What does the concept of “design” encompass today? What are the prospects for its development?
2. Temporal Aspects of Design: Traditions and Innovations in Design Practices.
On the past and future of design today. Why is the timeline important? What are retrospective, contemporary, prospective, and future design? (5.11.2014)
3. Design — Movement: from Jean Tinguely to Theo Jansen, when did design learn to “walk”?
Kinetic design, modularity, variability, and endless transformations: what taught design to walk, grow, and change? (12.11.2014)
4. Design — Information: Monologue, Dialogue, Polylogue.
On the language of design. Understanding design in the virtual environment. Metaphor and interactivity in contemporary design. (19.11.2014)
5. Design — Human: Ways of Interaction.
“The place we assign to design in the world depends on how we understand that world.” What is the measure of the human in design? Paths toward harmonious interaction and sustainable development. (26.11.2014)