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IDRV goes green!
“I am calling for transitional design. This is a design approach that advances social change within a sustainable system. Transitional design frightens and fascinates, bridges and enables. It helps to anticipate a new form of life. The seductive power of design is committed to a new purpose.” Harald Gruendl
The focus of the research activities of IDRV since 2011 is on the topic of Sustainable Design. The discussion on potential aesthetic strategies for sustainable design was already enriched in 2010 with the contribution to the LeNS Conference (the Learning Network on Sustainability), “Poetry and Aesthetics of Sustainable Design”. As a member of LeNS, the IDRV was selected to launch the associated LeNS network for German-speaking countries. The national exchange on the subject will take place in an expert cluster for sustainable design, which is currently being established within the structure of designaustria. As a result, an exhibition and a toolkit for environmentally and socially sustainable design processes will be compiled.
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- Circle 00003 (r=4)
- Sustainable Design. Strategies for social change! Friday Dec 2nd 2011, 6 pm! designforumWien, at the MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Today, the industrialized countries consume so many resources that developing countries will take every chance to achieve a similar level of prosperity. Why do we fail to design reasonable production and consumption patterns that would [...] Read more – ‘Circle 00003 (r=4)’.
- Ritual Design, presented and discussed by Harald Gruendl and Kai Rosenstein
- RITUAL DESIGN. NEW CATHEDRALS OF CAPITALISM Discussion/dialogue. Oct 6th, 7 PM, Frankfurt An introduction to research by Kai Rosenstein with respondent, Harald Gruendl, Ritual Designer and Design Researcher, Vienna. Within the framework of a series of events at the “Salon Frankfurt” October 6-11, 2011 Research with Images: why and to what end do we conduct research on [...] Read more – ‘Ritual Design, presented and discussed by Harald Gruendl and Kai Rosenstein’.
- ecoLUCY! Co-supervised by Harald Gruendl and now exhibited!
- ecoLUCY! In the summer semester of 2011, Harald Gruendl co-supervised the module “Sudeco… for sustainable design and communication strategies” for the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design (Prof. Françoise-Hélène Jourda) at the Technical University of Vienna. The students’ task was to design hanging lamps made of a material with sustainability in mind (paper!) and get [...] Read more – ‘ecoLUCY! Co-supervised by Harald Gruendl and now exhibited!’.