[rohrpost] Papanek Symposium 2017 - Design & Ethics (Bio-Synthetics and Artificial Intelligence & Algorithmic Cultures), London UK, September 22, 2017

[Ingeborg Reichle]

Papanek Symposium 2017 - Design & Ethics

London UK, 22 September 2017

Directed by Professor Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts
Vienna Austria, organised by Dr. Leah Armstrong (Papanek Foundation
University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria) and Professor Alison J.
Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria), hosted by His
Excellency Dr. Martin Eichtinger, Austrian Ambassador to the United
Kingdom, Austrian Embassy UK, 18 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PX.

Questions of design and ethics take on a new currency, form and
prescience in a post-industrial, ‘post-truth’ landscape. The
technological shifts that have re-organised work through the
automation of labour are intimately connected to global social
problems relating to immigration, racial and gender politics. New
classifications of intelligence, ‘artificial’, ‘alternative’ and
‘false’, are produced and consumed through the design and management
of infrastructures of information. Meanwhile, new experts in
algorithmic cultures, engineering and synthetic biology pursue the
application of these forms of intelligence in medicine, security,
health and social care as practical solutions to complex social problems.

Design and architecture occupy a powerful and precarious
responsibility within this complexity, which goes beyond mere
application and facilitation. The Papanek Symposium 2017 considers the
deeply embedded social and political implications of design; a
practice which can be so vulnerable to co-option and yet conversely so
valuable as a form of dissent. It explores the unique position of
design practice and research - contemporary, historical and
anthropological - to address questions of ethics in design. Bringing
academics and designers into dialogue, it aims to generate new ideas
and critical thinking on the state of ethics in design and
architecture today.
 Speakers include:

Jan Boelen, Artistic Director Z33, House for Contemporary Art,
Hasselt, Belgium.

David Breummer, Roboticist and Co-Founder of 5D Robotics, San Diego,
California.

Professor Chris Csíkszentmihályi, ERA Chair and Scientific Director,
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal.

Dr Bianca Elzenbaumer, Associate Professor in Design Research at Leeds
College of Art and Co-Founder of Brave New Alps.

Corinna Gardner, Acting Keeper, Design, Architecture and Digital,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Designer, Artist and Writer working with
experimental synthetic biology, and its ethical implications, Royal
College of Art, London.

Dr Orit Halpern, Associate Professor Sociology and Anthropology,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Dr Alison Powell, Assistant Professor and Programme Director of MSc
Media and Communication, London School of Economics, London.

Matthias Tarasiewicz, New Media Artist and Technology Theorist,
Co-Founder of the Research Institute for Arts and Technology, Vienna.

Professor Eyal Weizman, Architect,  Professor of Spatial and Visual
Cultures and Director of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths,
University of London.

Papanek Lecture 2017: The Architectural Sensorium
 
Following the Papanek Symposium 2017: Design & Ethics, Professor Eyal
Weizman, Architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and
Director of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London
will deliver the 2017 Papanek Lecture, ‘The Architectural Sensorium’.
 
In recent years Forensic Architecture began using novel research
methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights
abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international
courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty
International, and the UN. Beyond shedding new light on human rights
violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture
has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its
name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate
armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to
cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media,
remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd
sourcing. In this lecture Eyal Weizman, the group’s founder, provides
an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions,
potentials, and double binds of this practice.

Programme

22 September 2017

10.00-10:30 Registration

10:30-11.00 Welcome

11.00-13.00 Session 1: Bio-Synthetics and Artificial Intelligence

13.00-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-16.30 Session 2: Algorithmic Cultures

16.30-18.00 Reception

18.00-19.00 Papanek Lecture

Professor Eyal Weizman, Architect,  Professor of Spatial and Visual
Cultures and Director of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths,
University of London.

Directed by: Professor Alison J. Clarke
Organised by Dr. Leah Armstrong and Professor Alison J. Clarke
Hosted by His Excellency Dr. Martin Eichtinger, Austrian Ambassador to
the United Kingdom, Austrian Embassy UK
 
Organised in collaboration with the Austrian Embassy, London and
Austrian Cultural Forum, London and in official partnership with the
London Design Festival.
 
Public event, free of charge, registration required.
 
For more information, including full programme and registration,
please visit:
 
http://papanek.org/symposium/
http://papanek.org/lecture/
http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/victor-papanek-symposium-lecture-2017

-- 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Reichle
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien /
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Abteilung Medientheorie / Media Theory
Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2
1010 Wien, Austria
www.dieangewandte.at