Closing Debate. Autonomy, camouflage or emancipation? The role of design in society
Symposium: “Can design change society?”
Sat, Sep 19, 2015
7–8.30 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
The symposium concludes with a controversial debate that fundamentally questions the status of the designer in society: Does design have a potential to emancipate society, or is it autonomously self-referential? Or does engaged art serve merely as camouflage for political conflicts that are thereby not addressed, but merely aestheticised?
Keynote Reinhold Martin, New York
With speakers of the previous panels
Presentation Bernd Scherer and Philipp Oswalt, Berlin