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<div><font color="#000000"><b>POLITICAL DESIGN WORKSHOP<br>
</b> <br>
From 25th til 29th, of February, 2012 a three-day-workshop is
being organized about the possibilities, resources and methods for the
communication of political thinking, held by international designers
and theoreticians. <br>
The aim of the workshop is to gain the theoretical and practical
knowledge which helps to form opinions supporting human rights and
franchise, and, that promotes social responsibility and
solidarity. The framework for the workshop is provided by the
international project<i> REdesigning the East</i> realized at
the Würtenbergische Kunstverien (Stuttgart) and in Hungary in
cooperation with the<i> Trafó House of Contemporary Art - Trafó
Gallery</i>. The project analyses the visual language of recent and
contemporary political changes in Eastern-Europe and East-Asia. It is
flared at each of its new locations by social issues based on local,
actual happenings, which are not presented by the mainstream media
(this sentence is not clear). This way it is hoped that the
experiences from the previous events at the previous locations can
give aid to the actual one.<br>
The project highlighted in Stuttgart the<i> Stuttgart21</i> civil
movement, fighting against large scale transportation and city
development projects. ambitions, in Seoul it focused on the
gentrification of the city. In Hungary we would like to define certain
focus-points, together with the participants, and prior previous to
the start of the workshop - from the field of human rights and those
of minorities we could chose far too many issues.<br>
We will talk about the traditions and relationships between
design and politics, about campaigns and strategies. We will discuss
the methods of drawing attention and those of resistance and about the
aspects of how all these are visually formed. Many international
projects and the local initiatives will be introduced.<br>
The workshop is exclusive (short-list), and is held in English; for
the application a short introduction and motivation letter is
needed. <br>
<br>
Guests of the workshop:<br>
<b>Sethu Das</b>, member of the Keralian (India) Design for the people
collective<br>
<b>Keiko Sei</b>, media theoretician, curator<br>
<b>Hand D. Christ</b>, director of the Würtenbergische Kunstverien
(Stuttgart), artist, activist<br>
<br>
<b>Redesigning the East:</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"
>http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/programme/2010/exhibitions/re-designi<span
></span>ng-the-east/<br>
<b>Design and People</b>: http://designandpeople.org<br>
<br>
Location of the workshop:<br>
<b>Labor<br>
</b>1053 Budapest, Képíró utca 6.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">http://www.labor.c3.hu</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><i>Organised by Trafó Gallery - Trafó
House of Contemporary Arts</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">http://trafo.hu/en-US</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i><br>
</i><b>Organizers:<br>
</b>Petra Csizek, Gábor Döme, Nikolett Er‘ss, Áron Fenyvesi,
János Sugár<br>
Contact: Petra Csizek, petra@trafo.hu, +36 20 400
6075</font></div>
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