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Pivot 2020; Pluriversal Design SIG, June-2020. Designing a World of Many Centers. Tulane Universi... more Pivot 2020; Pluriversal Design SIG, June-2020. Designing a World of Many Centers. Tulane University- New Orleans & The Design Research Society DRS-UK. The full paper link: https://www.academia.edu/44528589/Pivot_2020_Designing_a_world_of_many_centers
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Doi: 10.21606/pluriversal.2020.014
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In March 2006 Otago Polytechnic School of Art held a seminar on the conflicts around the publicat... more In March 2006 Otago Polytechnic School of Art held a seminar on the conflicts around the publication by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. A lecturer in Design Studies was invited to speak from a Middle Eastern perspective and a lecturer in Art Theory and History at the School of Art was invited to respond from a Western perspective. The conflict that provoked this discussion arose from a surprisingly naive request for an illustrator to illustrate a book explaining the Muslim faith to Danish children. The fact that illustrators were reluctant to work on this project was publicised and characterised as 'self-censorship' by Flemming Rose of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He responded by commissioning artists to create images which did represent Mohammad on the grounds that this would enable the newspaper to demonstrate that it stood for the principles of freedom of speech. The cartoons were published in Denmark and slowly di...
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The aim of this book is to provide a clear overview of the region that stimulates debate, gives d... more The aim of this book is to provide a clear overview of the region that stimulates debate, gives direction to the development of design education, and provides an agenda that would strategically inform practitioners. Respondents to the Expression of Interest are invited to propose a topic for a 5,000-word essay in one of the three parts of the book. Part 1. Looking back on the history of design: tradition, colonialism and modernity The topics invited would all critically reflect upon the relation between the place of design and the pre-modern, modern and contemporary history of the region. Part 2. An evaluation of 'the now': what is the present picture of design practices and education in the region? This question is posed against the backdrop of conflict, political instability, economic circumstances, and socio-cultural problems and possibilities. Part 3. Futuring the Region: How can design education, knowledge and practices contribute to the repair and transformation of the region so that it is better able to meet its challenges and constitute a viable and equitable future for all the societies of the region. Please send a one-page Expression of Interest (12pt double spaced) with the following information:
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Four Rivers Deep Maps, 2022
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Light & Shadow, 2022
The works in "Light & Shadow" explore the perception of artworks, the digitization of objects, cu... more The works in "Light & Shadow" explore the perception of artworks, the digitization of objects, cultural artifacts and heritage, urban culture of the past and urban culture of the future.
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'Futuring Craft' IOTA21 Conference Proceeding, 2021
‘Futuring Craft’ An Overview Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's) Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor The c... more ‘Futuring Craft’ An Overview
Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's)
Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor
The conference aims to map contemporary crafts in the Indian Ocean region and to define the future scope of craft making. Current indicative research and creative practices will contribute towards the futuring of crafts across the region. The conference enhances the efforts of academics, craft-makers and curators to collaboratively engage, through critical analysis, and to challenge predominant conceptions linking crafts with the past, to move further towards addressing the notion that, “Craft needs to be seen as a quality of things of the future, rather than a thing of the past! It needs to arrive as elemental to a future economy and culture” (Fry, 2011, P. 139) In this context, we argue ‘futuring’ as a scope of employing individual characteristics to enhance the future transformation of our societies. As human beings, we rely on non-human things; these are the artefacts that we position as a central element in sustaining our physical and mental life. Futuring craft research aims to theorise creative practices and create experimental knowledge, to support the broadening of research practices into, for, and through craft practice (Frayling, 1993), as “[t]his scope is still relatively underdeveloped compared to mainstream design research” (Niedderer, 2014, P. 625). Building on the significance of crafts as value-driven within the existing economic paradigm, this approach is applied across the region as a reflection on transformation towards modernity, development, and beyond. We must acknowledge craft as an object of empowerment, as an artefact that interacts physically through its quality of making as well as through its sensory influences, as reflected through experience, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure.
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