Category Archives: activism

Salon 30: How do Finnish DIY movements thrive?

Posted on 01/12/2019 by guyjulier

Wednesday 11 December, 1300-1430h Public Panel Discussion Event Free A Grid / Otakaari 5, A208d Jeti Aalto University 02150 Espoo Campus map Do-It-Yourself (DIY) isn’t just about fixing up your mökki. It covers all kinds of activities such as music … Continue reading →

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Salon 28: Can design research save the planet?

Posted on 03/09/2019 by guyjulier

Helsinki Design Week Design Culture Salon Erottaja 2, Helsinki Wednesday 11 September 2019, 1700-1900 This panel discussion brings together some of Finland’s leading design researchers to debate the ways by which the global ecological crisis is addressed in design. Developing … Continue reading →

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Reflections on The Performance of Protest: a panel on visual culture and aesthetics

Posted on 04/07/2017 by guyjulier

Friday 9 June, 2017. Muzzy-headed after election night, panelists and participants for the final Salon of this season filed into the dark of the ICA’s cinema space for an afternoon of laughter and concern. As a panel on the Performance … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Alternative Exchange: how does design create alternative economies in contemporary culture?

Posted on 15/02/2017 by guyjulier

Within the cool interior of the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory in Vienna (26 January 2017), this Salon unfolded in multilayered ways. This reflects the multiple sites, publics and processes through which alternative exchange systems take place, making them often allusive but … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Design Culture Salon 21 ‘Queer Craft…?’

Posted on 24/05/2016 by guyjulier

Queer Craft…? 20 May 2016 The brevity of the title for Design Culture Salon 21 — ‘Queer Craft…?’ — belies the complexity of putting these two challenging concepts and practices together and the volume of discussion that this act generates. … Continue reading →

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Design Culture Salon 15: How does design address immobilities in our society?

Posted on 02/03/2015 by guyjulier

Design Culture Salon 15: How does design address immobilities in our society? Friday 13 March 6:30-8:30pm Clore 55, British Galleries While Design Culture Salon 10 looked at the concept of movement in urban culture, this salon focuses on spaces of … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Design Culture Salon 3 — Design Activism: how does it change things?

Posted on 27/02/2013 by guyjulier

It was a dismal night to be out and about. An austere drizzle cloaked South Kensington, winter colds pervaded and many were those working through the haze of Benadryl or LemSip. On TV, el clasico, of Barcelona v. Real Madrid … Continue reading →

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