Author: Marko Rakic
ALICE RAWSTHORN
What does design mean today? How is it evolving? How effective is it in addressing the major social, political and ecological challenges of our time? And how does it need to adapt to develop new design solutions to these and the new problems and opportunities it will face in the future? Alice Rawsthorn will discuss these and other key themes of her book, Design as an Attitude.
ALICE RAWSTHORN
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author, whose books include Design as an Attitude, Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
and, most recently, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, co-written with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of design at MoMA, New York. Alice’s weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. In all her work, Alice champions design’s potential as a social, political and ecological tool that can help to foster positive change. Born in Manchester and based in London, she is a founding member of the Writers for Liberty campaign for human rights and of the advisory board of the DemocracyNext research and action institute as well as a member of the UK government’s Honours Committee for arts and Media. Alice and Paola are co-founders of Design Emergency, a podcast and research platform that investigates design’s role in forging a fairer future.
THIERRY BRUNFAUT
Thierry Brunfaut is a graphic designer, therefore learned graphic design. Also, Thierry is an entrepreneur. However, he did not know anything about people management or human resources. So, with his partners, Thierry made ALL the possible mistakes you can make while running a creative business. Until the day they decided to redesign Base, their own company. Thierry will share this journey with the Base teams, how they changed and implemented new processes and rituals while maintaining personal inspiration and accelerated creativity in their four studios in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Moreover, he will also give you one or two simple but effective bits of advice …
THIERRY BRUNFAUT
Thierry Brunfaut is a creative director and one of the founding partners of Base Design, an international network of branding studios based in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. He is the author of the renowned 5 – Minute poster series, a professor and a regular speaker at design and branding conferences around the world. Thierry bears a striking and seemingly contradictory resemblance both to Moby and Kermit the Frog.
JULIA KAHL
The way we publish is evolving with the ever-changing world. While the phrase ”Print is dead” has been uttered for some time now, it holds true for some forms of media. However, this may not necessarily be a negative development. With news now readily accessible on our smartphones within seconds, the printed medium has once again become a sought-after object that allows for a deeper engagement with topics and aids in slowing down our fast-paced lives. The experience of smelling a newly printed publication and feeling the texture of the paper is an added benefit that does not require electricity or login credentials.
In her lecture, Julia Kahl shares her personal perspective on what publishing both online and offline means in today’s world. She emphasizes the significant role that publications can play in promoting cultural understanding and addressing social issues.
Conference in English.
JULIA KAHL
Julia Kahl (born 1983) studied Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt before moving to Karlsruhe in 2007, where she lives and works since then. Together with Lars Harmsen, she runs the independent publishing and media house Slanted Publishers, which was founded in 2014 and has received international recognition for its activities such as Slanted magazine, the Slanted blog and various publications in the field of typography, graphic design and visual culture.
As a designer, editor and publisher, she has a great passion for typography, editorial design and all things print and loves connecting with people and cultures from all over the world. She teaches in the field of typography/editorial design at various universities, gives lectures, and is regularly part of international design juries.
VERÒNICA FUERTE
By Verònica Fuerte, founder & Creative Director at Hey.
VERÒNICA FUERTE
Verònica Fuerte is a designer, illustrator, international speaker and creative director from Barcelona. After graduating from Elisava and Eina, she gained experience in several design studios. In 2007 she founded Hey, which has grown steadily since achieving worldwide recognition. Verònica believes in amultidisciplinary and broad approach to design; she enjoys limitless creativity, bold language, and a forward thinking perspective on what they do and how they create.
MELLIE LA ROQUE
Quelle vision pour le métier de designer ? Face aux enjeux socio-écologiques actuels, la pratique du design amène à s’interroger sur l’héritage de la discipline, de ses pratiques et de son éthique professionnelle. Mellie La Roque fera part de son point de vue engagé sur le sujet, s’appuyant sur son expertise mêlant recherche et design de service, mais aussi sur ses activités liées à sa fonction de coprésidente des Designers Éthiques.
MELLIE LA ROQUE
Mellie La Roque is a committed designer who explores the practice of design combined with ethical reflection. She is co-president of Designers Éthiques, a research-action structure on responsible digital design and Design in France.
This community explores new design practices, raises awareness through the publication of creative commons tools and trains designers in new skills. Designers Éthiques is notably recognised for its Fresque du Design et de l’éthique numérique, the publication of the Guide d’écoconception de services numériques and the Ethics By Design event, the main event dedicated to responsible digital design in France.
In parallel to her associative activity, Mellie continues her commitment through her contribution to socially and environmentally useful companies, in particular as a Service Designer within SNCF Connect & Tech, the digital subsidiary of the leading French public transport company SNCF. She participates through her expertise in the definition, implementation and projection of mobility services through the creation of responsible digital principles, the dissemination of digital eco-design and the consideration of socio-ecological issues through a methodology combining design and foresight.
MIKE BOURSCHEID
Mike Bourscheid’s sculpture and performance-based practice involves the fabrication of costumes and ungainly or ridiculous appendages, in order to channel alternate personae as a device for addressing aspects of masculinity, European pomposity, and patriarchal power. Mike Bourscheid represented Luxembourg at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, and his recent exhibitions include Richmond Art Gallery (Canada), LIAR NYC (USA), and Kunstverein Heidelberg (Germany). Mike Bourscheid has an upcoming solo exhibition at Centre national de l’audiovisuel (Dudelange, Luxembourg) as well as at 1646 (The Hague, Netherlands). He is based in Luxembourg and Vancouver.
This lecture reflects on how fashion, film and crafts influence Mike Bourscheid’s art practice in order for him to create his costumes, props and wearable sculptures.
Conference in English.
PAULINE VAN DONGEN
Traditional, fossil-based energy systems are typically placed out of sight, and as a result we treat them mindlessly and take their seemingly endless supply for granted. The same thing often seems to be happening with solar energy, when silicon panels are placed on roofs and in the landscape. Yet solar has the potential to get very close to us and thereby invite much more engagement and generate cultural values. Like the rays of the sun solar surfaces and objects in our everyday environment can imbue our experience of the world with meaning. So, the question that arises is how can design help make solar energy be a personal matter by making it tangible, engaging and actionable.
In EnglishPAULINE VAN DONGEN
Pauline van Dongen (1986) is an award-winning designer and researcher working at the intersection of textiles and technology. She explores human-garment relationships and alternative fashion (design) practices through the development of smart textiles and clothing. Her design studio received international recognition with projects such as the Solar Shirt, Phototrope and Issho. By integrating interactive materials such as solar cells, light, sensors and haptic actuators, these garments enhance the sensory and emotional experience of clothing and reveal the nurturing potential of textiles. In 2019 she received her doctoral degree at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Pauline has been a pioneer in creating solar garments and textiles since 2013. Her studio is currently developing Suntex, an architectural textile with woven flexible solar cells with the aim to reupholster our built environment.
Pauline is co-founder of The Solar Movement and The Solar Biennale.
Marc Engerhart
The co-creation of man and machine has connected us designers for many decades. We as designers use our software tools and helpful digital working environments every day. But what does it mean when these environments and tools fundamentally change to become machine intelligent? What does it mean when we can design products and media that can recognise environment and thus fundamentally change the interaction with humans? What is the advantage for us as designers? How can we use the potential of data as a design material? How does this affect aesthetics and is there a future of design methodology as we know it?
In English.
BY MARC ENGENHART
Marc Engenhart is a designer, artist and co-author of the recently published book Design and Artificial Intelligence for all design disciplines.
2005 foundation of Engenhart ° Design Studio. Work on projects in applied communication design, interaction design, digital systems, speculative design, critical design such as transmedia. Various national and international awards. Since 2015 teaching and research at colleges and universities, including the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Hochschule Rhein-Waal and TH Ingolstadt in the field of communication design, Human-Computer Interaction and typography. Since 2006 member of the Type Directors Club New York, since 2012 member of the BDG, Professional Association of German Communication Designers, since 2018 member of the German Federal Association of Artificial Intelligence. Since 2019 founder and author on speculative design and design futuring for The Unthinkable Hub and co-founder of the Designing with Artificial Intelligence (dai) conference with published proceedings.
EUROPEAN DESIGN AWARDS AFTERPARTY
When
Saturday, June 3, 22:00
Location
Rotondes
Open to the public.
Free entrance.
More info soon.
EUROPEAN DESIGN AWARDS
When
Saturday, June 3, 19:00
Location
Rotondes
The European Design Awards, a project that kicked off in 2007 as an initiative of 12 different European design magazines is a prestigious annual event that aims to recognise and promote outstanding communication design from across Europe. With almost 50 categories to choose from, the ED Awards are the premier awards organisation for recognising and promoting creative work in the field.
The organisation is unique in that its jury is composed of design critics, editors, publishers, and academics who are experts in communication design and who work daily to curate communication design projects. As a result, the ED Awards’ jury is widely recognised as the most qualified in the industry. The ED Awards are dedicated to continuously evolving and improving as an organisation and resource for communication designers throughout Europe.
The ceremony is followed by a party at the Rotondes’ Buvette to celebrate the laureates in style!
With DJ LOON and DJ Davka.
CREATIVE MACHINE LEARNING AND THE POWER OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR DESIGN FUTURISTS – A HANDS ON APPROACH
When
Thursday, June 01, 16:30-18:30
Location
FORUM D’ART CONTEMPORAIN
In this workshop we experimentally discover how to use intelligent tools as design tools and integrate them into our individual design process. In a second part we talk to the machine, show it how it understands our gesture, design language and investigate qualities. Finally, we develop small and simple prototypes that can facilitate our everyday life as helpful colleagues. This workshop is for designers of all disciplines. Bring a phrase of your favourite artist written on a sheet of paper, your smartphone and if possible, a laptop with a camera, as well as an email address to which you have access.
WORKSHOP WITH MARC ENGENHART
Marc Engenhart is a designer, artist and co-author of the recently published book Design and Artificial Intelligence for all design disciplines.
2005 foundation of Engenhart ° Design Studio. Work on projects in applied communication design, interaction design, digital systems, speculative design, critical design such as transmedia. Various national and international awards. Since 2015 teaching and research at colleges and universities, including the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Hochschule Rhein-Waal and TH Ingolstadt in the field of communication design, Human-Computer Interaction and typography. Since 2006 member of the Type Directors Club New York, since 2012 member of the BDG, Professional Association of German Communication Designers, since 2018 member of the German Federal Association of Artificial Intelligence. Since 2019 founder and author on speculative design and design futuring for The Unthinkable Hub and co-founder of the Designing with Artificial Intelligence (dai) conference with published proceedings.
A DESIGNERS’ WORLD CAFÉ
When
Thursday, June 01, 16:30-18:30
Location
FORUM D’ART CONTEMPORAIN
Join inProgress asbl for a collaborative exchange on the theme of design education in Luxembourg. Through a series of debates and discussions, attendees are invited to participate in building a local design school.
Badge pickup & free transport
Badge pickup
Badge pickup stations and opening times:
June 17th
10.00-19.00 – festival info desk at the lobby of Nordic Hotel Forum (Viru väljak 3, 10111 Tallinn)
June 18th
9.00-19.00 – festival info desk at the lobby of Nordic Hotel Forum (Viru väljak 3, 10111 Tallinn)
June 18th
9.00-19.00 – collect your badge at the Conference/Gala venue at Kultuurikatel (Põhja pst 27a, 10415 Tallinn).
Opening times depend on the arrivals and are subject to change. In case changes will occur, the information on the web will be updated.
Badge pickup stations and opening times:
June 17th
10.00-19.00 – festival info desk at the lobby of Nordic Hotel Forum (Viru väljak 3, 10111 Tallinn)
June 18th
9.00-19.00 – festival info desk at the lobby of Nordic Hotel Forum (Viru väljak 3, 10111 Tallinn)
June 18th
9.00-19.00 – collect your badge at the Conference/Gala venue at Kultuurikatel (Põhja pst 27a, 10415 Tallinn).
Opening times depend on the arrivals and are subject to change. In case changes will occur, the information on the web will be updated.
Getting to the conference venue by public transport
You can access the Conference/Gala venue by tram and buses. The stop is “Linnahall”. The venue is 200m from the bus & tram stops.
Tram nr 1 & 2
Buses nr 2, 3, 21, 21B, 41, 41B, 66 and 73
Every badge holder can use Tallinn public transport for free between 16.06-19.06 by showing the QR code on the badge.
