Design for Debate 2021 | Zoom Chats with Unlikely Guests

ELIA member, The School of Arts and Design - Polytechnic of Leiria, presents: Design for debate 2021 | zoom chats with unlikely guests

In 2021, with the pandemic no longer taking us by surprise, The School of Arts and Design - Polytechnic of Leiria decided to return to the “Design for Debate” seminars with renewed enthusiasm. Therefore, they have chosen to take the distance communication platforms as a facilitator to extend the invitations to the international community and to bring to ESAD.CR, virtually, protagonists that represent different contemporary territories in design.

In its 3rd edition, this program will once again invite different interlocutors to conversations that focus on the potential of design as a facilitator to reflect and debate, proposing the need for a paradigmatic shift that moves design from applications to implications (social, cultural, eco-systemic, ethical, political, among others). Since its first edition, this reflection and experimentation has been developed together with a series of guests who, over the years, have been presenting their work in a critical way, reflecting on the ways in which this paradigmatic shift creates the need to also rethink design methodologies, bearing in mind that it is not always just about designing for commercial contexts led by the market, but also for broader social contexts.

“Design for Debate” is a series of talks organized by the 3rd Year Undergraduate in Industrial Design, Seminar Course lectured by Professors Carla Cardoso and Teresa Fradique.

The sessions, in English, will be broadcast live on ESAD.CR youtube channel

“Design for Debate” programme for 2021:

14 April, 15h00 Renny Ramakers (Droog Design)

21 April, 15h00 Vera Sacchetti & Matylda Krzykowski (Foreign Legion)

05 May, 15h00 Jan Boelen

12 May, 15h00 Susana Soares

19 May, 15h00 Noam Toran

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