New projects
Some new projects have been added to the Social Spaces website:
-Food Related, how narrative inquiry and new media can support changing processes of the circumpolar peoples, a PhD project by Rosanne van Klaveren.
-UseWell! roadmap user-centered design, which has its kick off meeting Monday 22nd of February.
-Weg(werp) met de bed pan, a collaborative project initiated by Arion, involving student nursing and occupational therapy of Hogeschool Zuyd and product design students of Media & Design Academy.
-ICTLoket.be, a project which gives free advice to SMP’s relating ICT and organises seminars and innovation projects.
Presentation Simon Bowen
If you were not able to attend the lecture by Simon Bowen in his Critical Artefact Methodology in design, you can have a look at his presentation.
Weg(werp) met de bed pan!
Yesterday, nursing students and occupational therapy students of Hogeschool Zuyd and products design students of KHLim Media & Design Academie Genk presented their concepts for a new bed pan. Various design solutions were shown during this meeting. This innovative project was initiated by Arion.
The synergy of three different study programs was very efficient. Students involved had a very positive experience. Working in
multidisciplinary
groups enabled the students to explore the current bed pans from various perspectives. The three groups used a human centered design method in their approaches to design a new bed pan. Students learned to be critical towards resources and processes in health care.
The concepts designed by the students were part of a first brainstorm phase. Arion will present and evaluate their concepts with field specialists to create a final list of demands concerning the productdevelopment of the future bed pan.
CFA Public Practice Program
Otis College of Art and Design
Otis Graduate Public Practice Program Call for Applications
Los Angeles–global center of public practices by artists and collaborative groups–is the dynamic setting for Otis’ MFA in Public Practice with studio facilities in the historic 18th Street Art Center. From the beginning, students are encouraged to find themselves as emerging professionals within this vast cultural and spatial geography. Suzanne Lacy, the renowned artist, educator, theorist of socially engaged public art and author of the influential Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, directs the Program.
New book
LA PUBLICITÉ DANS L’ART CONTEMPORAIN (T I) Esthétique et postmodernisme par Vangelis Athanassopoulos
A travers l’étude de l’appropriation de la publicité par l’art contemporain, cet ouvrage vise à articuler une théorie critique sur le statut de l’image après la crise de l’avant-garde et sa collusion avec la sphère des médias de masse. Ni apologie, ni condamnation inconditionnelle du postmodernisme, il s’agit d’une tentative de réfléchir avec les images plutôt que simplement sur elles, permettant de penser le rapport entre ce qu’elles disent et ce qu’elles font dans cette culture visuelle qui est la nôtre. (Coll. Ouverture Philosophique, 208 p., 21 EUR) ISBN 978-2-296-10838-7