The Politics of Design
Alison Clarke, director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, takes you through the exhibition ‘Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design’ at Design Museum Den Bosch.
Alison Clarke, director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, takes you through the exhibition ‘Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design’ at Design Museum Den Bosch.
Learn about the origin of consumerism, its drivers and its consequences.
Learn how planned obsolesce is a part of consumerism and makes bad products with the goal of making money. But can it actually also have benefits?
Steve Jobs views life and the world. Recorded in 1995 when Steve Jobs had been ousted from Apple and was living in exile working on a fledgling computer company NeXT Computer.
Excerpt from Ken Burn’s documentary about one of America’s greatest architects.
Second week, theme Production. From 12 to 16 September 2022
Fifth week, theme Creativity. From 3 to 7 October 2022.
Lecture by Ianus Keller and Bregje van Eekelen closing off Understanding Design and reflecting on the theme of week 9 of Understanding Design: Norms & Rules
Seventh week, theme Design for the Real World. From 17 to 21 October 2022
Nick and Christian from Google Design discuss potential trajectories for the messy futures of emerging technologies and argue for design being appropriately and systematically messy in response. Please watch the video from the first marker to the second for this week. In this part you will see some ideas about the roles of models and abstractions and get an idea of their possible uses.