Design and Grace
In a world where human activities often violently constrict the lives of others, how can designers cultivate creative acts of withdrawal, foreclosure and leaving be? In this talk I will employ the notion of grace(actively not doing what you are able to do) to decouple action from force, and passivity from resignation in design. Through thinking with the works of others and through my own hands-on reconfigurations of situations where humans consume other animals (angling, eating, shopping), I tend to a friction at the core of design: that between proposing and imposing. I seek to provide designers with confidence and precision in crafting vital, effective and beautiful nos and nots.
Malmö-based designer and researcher Erik Sandelin makes prototypes for activating and investigating gracious modes of life. Erik holds a PhDin Art, Technology and Design from KTH and Konstfack in Stockholm. He is a co-founder of interaction design and innovation studioUnsworn. Erik is currently a visiting researcher at UCLy in Lyon, where he is working on Simone Weil, design and decreation.
When? 10th October 2024
Where? Schanzenstraße 28, COdesignLAB, CoCo
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