Naomi Bueno de Mesquita
Design for Inclusion
Speakers
Speakers
Beata Czajkowska
Anastasia Babi
Piotr Niedziałkowski
Elina Pyrohova
Karolina Rychter
Rebecca Duclos
Damian Flisak
Zuzanna Popławska
record of lectures from October 2023
Monday
Naomi Bueno de Mesquita
Design for Inclusion
Under the umbrella of Design for Social Justice, this session critically examines instances of exclusion, problematizes around similar issues that specific communities encounter, and develops and proposes approaches and tools for designing for inclusion. Migration will be used as pretext for understanding the role of design in creating exclusionary and inclusionary environments.
Design Academy Eindhoven Sponsored by the Grant of the Netherlands Kingdom Embassy.
Zuzanna Popławska
Genius loci and local identity in the face of globalization and migration
Modern cities are under the strong pressure of metropolisation and globalization processes, they are also the main destination for migrants from all around the world. Those are the cities where globalization materializes: in a place of historic, intimate cafes – chain of coffeehouses such as Starbucks cafes appear, in a place of family shops with local
products – chain stores like Zara or H&M, in a place of historic houses - glass office buildings that looks the same around the world. Are cities losing their genius loci? What about the local identity of its inhabitants – are cities still the source of one’s identity or maybe just a temporary place of living?
Ngoc Tran – Vietnamese identity meets Western world
Rat’s Dream (comic book) ONLINE
Alesia Kuzmenkova – Unraveling the Self
It is a book with AR simple identity development test based on James.
Marcia’s identity development statuses theory.
Tuesday
Damian Flisak
Artificial Intelligence in Art: Support or Threat to the Artist’s Identity?
Artificial intelligence’s ability to mimic artistic styles and generate unique pieces poses a potential threat to the individuality of artists. As AI becomes more prevalent in art creation, the distinction between human-made and AI-generated art may blur, leading to questions about the value we place on human creativity. In this evolving landscape, the label ”made by humans” could become a testament to the authenticity and emotional depth, aspects that AI,
despite its capabilities, cannot replicate at all.
Kasper Strömman
Reworking identity
Finnish graphic designer, social media star and influencer in Finland.
Beata Czajkowska
Who is Afraid of Change? Politics of Woke
Beata Czajkowska is a co-founder and board member of twofoundations: New Art Foundation ZNACZY SIĘ and City of LiteratureFoundation. For the foundations, she develops and executesprograms focusing on literature, cultural and social dialogue, and
cultural education. Beata currently manages the program supporting literary and cultural events in independent bookshops in Kraków. Her
experience includes a few stints in academia, international consulting, organization of international poetry festivals, producing plays and concerts, and providing arts education for children. Beata holds a
doctorate in Government and Politics from University of Maryland, USA. She lives mostly in Kraków, but takes long trips to Seattle.
Aleksandra Mosina: animation Who am I? – generated by AI ONLINE.
Wednesday
Ingrid Van der Wacht
Build together a flourishing world Let’s give a shit and plant seeds
It is time to take up missions together to design the world out of crises. Designers play a pivotal role in these processes - to build missions, visualize objectives, prototypes first ideas. They can get things and people moving in multi disciplinary collaborations. BUT are designers SUPER heroes?
And what would they need to spread their super work like seeds of positivity on our planet ;-)
Sponsored by the Grant of the Netherlands Kingdom Embassy – the Netherlands Design Week.
Karolina Rychter
Am I Still the Person I Used To Be? Exploring the Tangible Realities of Philosophical Questions on Personal Identity
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible verm in” – this is the opening line of Franz Kafka’s short story ’The Metamorphosis’. The
transformations we undergo might not be so abrupt, dramatic, or drastic, but they occur continuously, every day and every hour. Our beliefs and preferences evolve, our memories fade and reshape, and our bodies undergo a complete atomic replacement every few years. Amidst this flux, how do we maintain a sense of consistent identity? I will try to give a brief history of how philosophers, including John Locke, David Hume, and Derek Parfit, have grappled with the puzzle of personal identity.
We'll also discuss whether contemporary neuroscience offers clarity on the issue or only deepens the mystery.
Elina Pyrohova – Silent Protest – Typographical Reflections on War (zine).
Anastasiia Babii – Lesya Ukrainka’s poem – animation.
Rebecca Duclos & David Ross
Holding Identity: the case of emerging Ukrainian artists
When the full-scale invasion began last year in Ukraine, thousands of
art academies and their students were in jeopardy. Bombings, shellings, a paucity of safe shelters, students needing to rejoin their families, evacuations happening all around them... the conditions could not have been worse for being at art school. So many people had just made it through Covid and returned to school, only to have the war change their lives again. The tenacity and the courage of Ukrainian artists is astonishing and their love for the country is extraordinary to witness. Their “Ukrainianness” has grown deeper because of the Russian invasion.
But how to stay in school? How to stay in a city under siege? How to
think about the future when each day brings more of the unknown?
This talk will highlight some of the Ukrainian students whom we’ve met
through the UAx Platform, recalling our conversations with them as theycontinue to live in a country at war.
elia-artschools.org
https://elia-artschools.org/page/UAx
Rebecca Duclos – Since 2008 Rebecca Duclos has held senior appointments in higher arts education institutions in Canada and the United States. She recently completed a five-year mandate as Faculty of Fine Arts Dean at Concordia University in Montreal with prior positions as graduate dean at the Art Institute of Chicago and as Graduate Program Director at the Maine College of Art. With degrees in Classical Civilization and Museum Studies, she worked as a freelance curator and museum professional for over a decade before completing her PhD at the University of Manchester in the UK. She is currently Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia and Visiting Faculty at Eesti Kunstiakadeemia in Tallinn. meteorological properties of clouds.
David Ross – Over the past twenty years David Ross has produced installations,photographic, and filmic works that focus primarily on the architectural and social composition of civic and cultural infrastructures. His projects have been exhibited in exhibitions and film festivals from Marfa to Sharjah, Toronto to Merano. Born in Canada, he is currently based in Tallinn, Estonia, where he is a guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of the Arts teaching in the Master of Contemporary Art, and Architecture and Urban Planning programmes. He also teaches a multidisciplinary course that focuses on the metaphorical and meteorological properties of clouds.
Thursday
Piotr Niedziałkowski
Identity crisis and health
During the lecture, the impact of health status on the escalation of
life crises will be presented, along with effective methods for coping
with them. We will explore the mechanisms behind the development
of diseases and present methods that allow for their prevention or
alleviation of symptoms. Additionally, it will be demonstrated how
a proactive approach to one’s health can lay the foundation for
building stronger resilience to future life challenges.
Dr. med. Piotr Niedziałkowski – is a specialist in internal medicineand allergology, a graduate of the Medical Faculty of the MilitaryMedical Academy in Łódź and Postgraduate Studies in aestheticmedicine at the Warsaw Medical University. He has amassedextensive clinical experience treating patients with internal,pneumonological, allergological, and immunological issues. Hisability to comprehensively assess a patient’s general health statusand develop optimal health and anti-aging treatment plans stemsfrom continuous learning and many years of medical practice.He is an active member of the Polish Allergological Society andthe French Association of Preventive Medicine MEDIPREVENT. Hiscommitment to medical advancement has led to the creation ofan innovative approach to health known as the Assessment of theBiological State of the Organism.
Paweł Pokutycki & Sonia Górecka
Between Digital West and East: Spaces for Slavic Identities
Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague / Design Academy Eindhoven
Sponsored by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.