Thu 7 Oct 2021
The Right to design: Another possible is possible
Röhsska Museet, Auditorium, Vasagatan 39, 411 37 Gothenburg
Participants
An extended afternoon of presentations, readings and discussions on the relationship between design and rights
Date: Thursday 7 October 2021
Time: 13.00 – 19.30
Place: Röhsska Museet, Auditorium
Address: Vasagatan 39, 411 37 Göteborg
Language: English
Please note that participants are both on site and online (see programme below). Through short presentations, readings and discussions, The Right to design: Another possible is possible will begin to collectively unfold the questions of what are design rights now? And what could be the right to design?
Presentations will foreground case studies, approaches, and perspectives to consider how global rights frameworks frequently fail to safeguard folklore and other indigenous knowledge forms, why the right to understand how injustices produced through and with design could be the basis for claiming design education as a special kind of right and how contemporary design and spatial practices can materialise and identify instances where rights fail and exclude.
The Right to design: Another possible is possible is part of a series of studies with practitioners, activists and scholars from disciplinary fields ranging from design and architecture to anthropology and law that will not only map designs relationships to rights but begin to imagine alternative framings for how rights could be practiced, made visible and extended through the discipline of design itself.
The event is jointly organised with the Röhsska Museum, IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Art, research publishing platform PARSE and HDK Valand, Academy of Art & Design, University of Gothenburg. The event has received financial support from Göteborgs Slöjdförening.
Part 1
13.00
Introduction: The Right to design
Onkar Kular & Henric Benesch
13.15 – 14.15
Roundtable 1: Borders/Institutions/Histories
Mahmoud Keshavarz & Christina Zetterlund.
14.15 – 15.15
Group reading and discussion.
Agency will invoke the controversy Thing 002406 (Jazz Camera).
15.15 – 15.45 Break.
15.45 – 16.45
Roundtable 2: Cartographies
Elof Hellström/Mapping the Unjust City & Nina Valerie Kolowratnik (online).
16.45 – 17.15
Presentation: Anna Hydén.
Presentation: Thomas Marriott (online).
Another possible is possible: Arjun Appadurai & Arturo Escobar. Moderated online conversation hosted in front of a live audience. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions and join the discussion.