Designing the self
Symposium: “Can design change society?”
With simultaneous translation in German and English
In recent years the individual has increasingly come into focus in the design discourse, whether in the sense of self-optimisation or co-production. Societies are not only figurations of individual existences; individuals configure societies with their practices, as Norbert Elias outlined in his figurational studies. The individual existence as a design question is equally promising and perilous.
a) Concerning the Gestaltung of a “new man” in classical modernism (in art, education, industrial science and eugenics)
Margarete Vöhringer, Berlin
b) Dasein is design. Eco-relational and mental design
Henk Oosterling, Rotterdam
c) Consumption as design
Wolfgang Ullrich, Leipzig / München
d) Design as self-optimisation
Andreas Bernard, Luneburg
Presentation Heinz Bude, Kassel