LDN Love Difference News #62   02-22-2007

Designing Politics - the Politics of Design: call for entries at IFG Ulm 2007 programme. Deadline for application: March 31st 2007
IFG (International design Forum) in Ulm is inviting entries for its 2007 programme on the topic of Designing Politics – The Politics of Design. Ulm International Design Forum is conducting a discourse on the social responsibility of the designer and defining the democratic quality of design: how can designers in future define their work in an extended and mediating field of relationships which also includes social and cognitive processes? Is there a way for designers to initiate and regulate intervention and participation in the field of social transformation? Ulm is looking for examples of projects which make the change from an economy of reification to an ecology of transformation. Projects which are dedicated to processes of becoming. Projects which direct their gaze behind the surface of the design process and which reveal that design diffuses transformational action into the space occupied by commercial and political decision-making. IFG Ulm's promotion programme is intended to encourage projects to develop consequences which leave a lasting mark on our social and physical environment.
A sum of EUR 50,000 is available to be awarded, and the award-winning projects will be supported by mentors at IFG Ulm. Architects, designers and researchers from can submit their project applications through the IFG Ulm website until March 31st 2007.
www.ifg-ulm.de

Designing Politics - the Politics of Design: bando di partecipazione al programma 2007 di IFG Ulm. Scadenza per le iscrizioni: 31 marzo 2007>>>

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Absolute Beginners: a Isola Art Center quattro artisti dell’Albania e del Kosovo. A Milano dal 15 marzo al 5 aprile>>>
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