Design, Social Change and Social Science: Catalyzing Interactions

Begins
 25 Feb 2008 - 10:00am
Ends
 25 Feb 2008 - 7:00pm
Location
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 W. 13th Street
Design, Social Change and Social Science: Catalyzing Interactions
Monday, February 25th
10am-Noon & 4.30pm-7.00pm
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 W. 13th Street

How can we create more robust interfaces between the critical reflections of contemporary social sciences and the desires for social change on the part of activists, designers and social theorists?

This day-long seminar will investigate the role of media design in catalyzing public engagement; the role of contemporary social science reflections in expanding understandings of community and ideas of the public as components of the development and design processes; and the increasing burden placed on design professionals to respond to highly speculative and contingent conditions under which the planning of urban futures now takes place.

Join designers, architects, social theorists and activists from Mumbai, NYC and points-in-between as we consider the present and future of design and social practice in the interest of contemporary urbanism and action.

Panels:
10.30am – 12noon
Speculative Designs: Urban Games and Social Transformation

Participants:
Neera Adarkar, Meena Menon, Colleen Macklin, Jane Pirone, Vyjayanthi Rao + Design and Technology Students from the Mobile Media Collab Studio, Fall 2006.

Noon - 4.30: Lunch + Break

4.30 – 6.30pm:
Architecture and Activism: Lessons from Mumbai

Participants:
Neera Adarkar, Pankaj Joshi, Laura Kurgan, Arjun Appadurai, Carol Breckenridge & Vyjayanthi Rao.


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