Welcome and Introduction

Symposium: “Can design change society?”

Fri, Sep 18, 2015
2 pm
SOLD OUT, remainder tickets at the box office
Admission: Dayticket 18€/10€, Two-day ticket 34€/18€, Single ticket panels 10€/7€
Live video streaming at Café Global, free admission, the number of seats is limited

With simultaneous translation in German and English

Tomás Saraceno, Investigations into the potentials of sky-life. Reykjavic Marathon, 2007, © Tomás Saraceno

Can design change society? How can we integrate emancipating ideas into a continuously progressing modernization? Has the aspiration of the Bauhaus and the classical avant-garde to positively change society through design been validated?

Welcome and introduction
Philipp Oswalt

The program overview