Skip to main content

Good Design for a Bad World


Can design tackle the really big problems facing the world? Or is design helping to cause these problems? Join Dezeen and Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven on 21 and 22 October, where these questions will be addressed in a series of free discussions.

Created as part of our Good Design for a Bad World collaboration with Dutch Design Week, each of the five talks will involve a high-profile group of speakers and will address a different global crisis.

The discussions will be moderated by Dezeen founder and Dutch Design Week international ambassador Marcus Fairs.

All the talks are free to attend and will take place at the People's Pavilion at KetelHuisplein 1 in the Strijp-S district of Eindhoven.

Climate change
12:00-13:00, Saturday 21 October

Climate change is perhaps the biggest threat to mankind. What can designers do to tackle this issue? Or would it be better for them to start exploring ways to protect society from rising sea levels and temperature increases?

The speakers are: Richard van der Lacken, co-founder of design conference What Design Can Do and initiator of the Climate Action Challenge; Lonny van Ryswyk, designer and co-founder of Atelier NL; and Babette Porcelijn, industrial designer and author of the book De Verborgen Impact, which gives an insight into the impact people have on the planet.

Click to attend this event on Facebook ›

Refugees
14.30-15.30, Saturday 21 October

How can design, architecture and urbanism help make life easier for refugees and host communities? Can design help prevent population movements in the first place? Should refugee camps be considered as proper cities rather than transit zones?

Speakers include Kilian Kleinschmidt, former refugee camp manager and founder of humanitarian consultancy Switxboard; and Rene Boer, a critic and master in urban studies with links to social movements in Europe and the Middle East.

Click to attend this event on Facebook ›

Terrorism
16.00-17.00, Saturday 21 October

Terrorists are turning vans and trucks into weapons and targeting urban spaces. How can we design out terrorism without ruining our cities? And to what extent is urban design making things easy for terrorists?

Speakers include Winy Maas, architect and founder of MVRDV; and Ingo Niermann, German novelist and artist and author of the Solution series, which asks how the problems facing the world can be solved.

Click to attend this event on Facebook ›

Pollution
12.30-13.30, Sunday 22 October

From projects that remove plastic from the oceans to devices that suck smog from the air, designers are trying to tackle pollution. But can these really make a difference? How can these ideas scale up fast enough to tip the balance?

Speakers are Dave Hakkens, industrial designer and creator of the Precious Plasticsrecycling project; Bernhard Lenger, a designer and founder of the This is Ecocidecampaign to raise awareness of environmental destruction; and Eline Strijkers, co-founder of design studio DoepelStrijkers, who believes that design can be an agent for social renewal.

Click to attend this event on Facebook ›




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Quote of the Day: 28 October 2017

"I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere." Steven Holl Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America's most important architects, Steven Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance.  Steven Holl has been recognized with architecture's most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, Steven Holl received the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Importance of Mass: Two Houses In the Mexican Bajio

In the tradition of Mexican architecture, maybe more than in other places, the compact wall without or almost without openings takes on values that go beyond the specific compositional solution to suggest force and tragedy, silence and light, defining domestic spaces and outdoor enclosures. Walls are the ‘tablet’ on which the great Mexican mural painters like David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera depicted human emotions like joy, suffering, the struggle for freedom. For Luís Barragán – whose meaning and figure have been reinterpreted by Legorreta , father and son – walls are a tool to shape the indoor-outdoor relationship. That insertion in the landscape as an essential feature of the architecture, which Legorreta grasps in the lesson of the master from Guadalajara, perhaps more than the vivid use of color on stucco, which at first glance might seem like the main legacy passed on. Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and essayist, Nobel Prize for Literature i...
Post a Comment
Read more

Quote of the Day: 25 October 2017

Good Morning Architects! "A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away." Vitruvius Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 90 - c. 20 BCE), better known simply as Vitruvius, was a Roman military engineer and architect who wrote De Architectura(On Architecture), a treatise which combines the history of ancient architecture and engineering with the author's personal experience and advice on the subject. As no similar work has survived complete from antiquity, the book has become an invaluable source, not only on Greek and Roman architecture , but also on a wide range of other topics such as philosophy , mathematics, and medicine. He served as a military engineer and architect for Julius Caesar between 58 and 51 BCE and he personally visited Greece , Asia, North Africa, and Gaul . He was considered an expert on ballistics and he also built a basilica at Fanum Fortunae (modern Fano in Umbria, Italy ) in c. 27 BCE. In De Architectura , written 30-2...
Post a Comment
Read more