SOCIAL DESIGN BETWEEN UTOPIA AND EVERYDAY LIFE

July 29, 2010hkdiscourse, net art, social artNo Comments

“Der Traum einer Sache – Social Design zwischen Utopie und Alltag” was the title of an exhibition at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna lasting from 3.Nov – 12. Dec 2009. The interdisciplinary framework tried to fathom the contemporary concept of “Social Design” by means of discussions, historical roots, motivations and promises displaying artworks, theory and design models. Questions in research were e.g.: “How can we deal with our scarce ressources?”, “How can knowledge be produced and shared?”, “How does all humankind profit from technological developments?”, “How can social problems be made visible?”…

Catalogue and Documentation in German only.

www.socialdesign.at

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