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Participants sought for the art project ’Short Cut Leuven’ by Stijn Van Dorpe

Short Cut traces an imaginary straight line (a ’short cut’), via a group of walking people, through Leuven. The aim is to form a line and walk a trail between Naamsevest and Engels Plein, straight across private property, public buildings, streets and squares. In this way Van Dorpe reconnects the private to the public, while making us think about topics like “living in the city,” “loss of privacy” etc. More info.

Saturday the 13th I am attending the Design by Performance Opening. Like the exhibition on Critical Design in 2007, this exhibition promises to present a quite interesting perspective on design. Design is presented in relation to how people perform it, like the image in the invitation clearly illustrates. Therefore the opening (the program is presented in the flyer in this post) will present different performative design activities. Unfold will do some live printing of little clay figures, for example. And of course some Djs will perform too during the evening/night.

The invitation by Z33 is also performed in an animation “Seeking comfort in a uncomfortable chair” (Kristof Vrancken en Seppe Baeyens, concept based on work by Bruno Munari).

The campaign Ouderzorg: een gouden job should encourage young people to opt for a professional career in the elderly care. To give them a different perspective on elderly (care), the exhibition of our design research project Zorgeloos wonen in de ouderenzorg travels along with the campaign.  Yesterday ‘Gedeputeerde van Welzijn’ Erika Thijs played the first board game in the context of the campaign with the students from the Martinusschool in Bilzen and Jessie and I guided them through the exhibition.