43rd Zagreb Salon /Applied Arts and Design ANTI-DESIGN /PERMANENT ALTERNATIVES Social responsibility of the author? (original) (raw)

If, by definition, utility means meeting the needs, what are the real needs anyway? What is it that unmistakably places an artifact in certain place and time, what are the new forms of immaterial design, and how to make the design not only a part of the spirit of the times of ‘now’, but also actual (contemporary) in the emerging times as well (in terms of trend and style)?

Katarina Dimitrijevic /KraalD MRes in Design Thesis, Goldsmiths UoL, 2013

KraalD: Transformation by Designedisposal, 2013

In the face of the neo-nuclear era, when the majority of the global population dwells in an urban environment, one cannot imagine future social constructs and design praxis scenarios without first acknowledging the importance of the present. Bombarded daily by mass media regarding dysfunctional socio-economic and environmental issues, driven by the urbanisation, globalisation, and informalisation megatrend triad, it seems imperative to start fundamentally re-thinking the way we organize, design, dispose and manufacture in our urban future. Following the ethos of a socially conscious design approach, the focus of the initial research phase is to emphasise a heroic element of mundane disposable plastic waste materials, empowered by self-manufacturing craft techniques. The objective is that the proposed design transformation by KraalD studio will be a validating micro-affirmation of an emerging co-creative global prosumer, questioning "What kind of cultural and socio-ethical encounters will the proposed Designedisposal asterism provoke in the future?" The research will utilize Designedisposal exhibitions and workshops as a platform to question further: Will this seemingly simple design process lead to social innovation opportunities, connecting London’s waste management network and small scale co-production urban transformation? Therefore, I intend to create new possibilities within contemporary design practice, using the plastic thing as an abductive tool for re-imagining new urban meta relations, reclaiming urban sociality as a new consumer need to be reawakened. Urban Ubuntu.

2010 - “Immaterial Architectures for a New Material World,” paper proposal accepted for Politics of Design International Workshop, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester, 24-25 June, 2010, Politics of Design Abstracts Booklet-Draft, June, 2010, pp. 9-10.

Politics of Design Abstracts Booklet-Draft (Manchester Architecture Research Centre), 2010

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