Friday, 15 May

9:00 Coffee, Assembling
Room: Library Seminar Room

9:30 Welcome Remarks
Matthias Görlich, Andrew Gilbert
Room: Library Seminar Room

9:45 Milestones, Manifestos, Ruptures and Reckonings
Danah Abdulla, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tristan Schultz, Luiza Prado
Moderator: Imad Gebrael
Room: Library Seminar Room

10:30 Critical Design Today: Presentation + Q&A
Room: Library Seminar Room

A series of minor gestures
Danah Abdulla

Race is designed, that is, materially articulated: a tribute to Stuart Hall
Mahmoud Keshavarz

Exposure: A Life of Sustained Critical Practice at the Edge of Design
Tristan Schultz

Carrying the Cloud: Reproductive Laboratories, Digital Infrastructures, and Speculative Feminist Critique
Luiza Prado

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Workshops and Conversations 1
At the Periphery of the Curriculum: Teaching, Learning, and What Emerges in Between (Roundtable Conversation)
Ivana Jović, Anna Unterstab, Stefanie Rau, Ayat Tarik Kamil
Room: Library Seminar Room

sensory, sculptural, seats: between Access Riders & Collaboration Agreements (Workshop)
Ren Loren Britton
Room: Villa, Room 102

Witnessing, Storytelling, and Decolonial Design Practice (Workshop)
Adeela Firdous, Jana Braun
Room: Textilmanufaktur, Room 201 (2nd floor, door on the right)

Designing Whiteness: Monte Verità and the Colonial Making of White Ecological Intimacy (Workshop/Guided Collective Reading)
Saskia Köbschall
Room: Villa, Room 103/4

Beyond Institutionalized Critique Pt. 1 – Reflection and Conversation on Design and Class (Struggle) (Workshop)
Quang Nguyen
Room: Design Haus, Room 101

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Panel 1
Moderated by Elsa Westreicher
Room: Library Seminar Room

Cabral’s Great-Grandchildren. A Designer’s Journey: A Reflection on Graphic and Visual Narratives of Cape Verde and its Diaspora
Denise Santos

Limping Toward Crip (Spatial) Pedagogies
Shrey Pathak

Ver/sammeln: Refusing to Archive, Assembling Otherwise
Lara Liske

Discussants: Paula Schönig, Angela Stellmacher

17:00 Break

17:30 IDCA 1970 – Legacies of Critical Design Raptures and Ruptures 
(Film Screening and Discussion)
Johanna Mehl
Room: Anbau Hörsaal

18:30 Dinner 

20:00 Beyond Institutionalized Critique Pt. 2 – Reflection and Conversation on Design and Class (Struggle) (Stammtisch)
Quang Nguyen
Co-Organizer: Design Union
Room: Konsum3000

 

Saturday, 16 May

9:00 Coffee, Assembling
Room: Library Seminar Room

10:00 Panel 2
Moderated by Dandara Maia
Room: Library Seminar Room

Assemblage Practice: Assembling Perspectives through Journal-Based Practice in Unequal Textile Systems
Odessa Legemah

Brazilian Fashion: Rupture and Reckoning – Angela Brito’s Work as a Critical Design Practice
Nianga Lucau

Diffused Practice: Navigating Inter-Epistemic Boundaries in Times of Crises
Arjang Omrani, Tahereh Aboofazeli

Rugs as a Practice of Counter-Mapping: Spatial Knowledge as Relational Practice
Alexandra Dimitraki

Discussants: Josie Böttiger, Dion Maerker, Jana Vogt

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Workshops and Conversations 2
Speaking Bitterness (Conversation) 
Cornelia Lund, Xiyu Tomorrow
Room: Library Seminar Room

Meme-Making as a practice of critical disidentification (Workshop)
Felix Kosok
Room: Villa, Room 103/4

Unfreezing colonial visuals, tracing collective memories (Workshop)
Marie Nadege Tsogo, Szandra Tebbe
Room: Design Haus, Room 101

Reactivating Ancestral Design as a Practice of Possibilities (Workshop)
Serge Matuta
Room: Villa, Room 102

14:30 Coffee Break

15:00 Feel We Must: The Case for Narrative Design Writing
Nina Paim 
Room: Library Seminar Room

16:00 Critical Design, Then and Now
Moderated by Mara Reklies
with Danah Abdulla, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tristan Schultz, Luiza Prado
Room: Library Seminar Room

16:45 Final Reflections: Critical Design for the Next Decade
Moderated by Andrew Gilbert
Room: Library Seminar Room

17:30 End of Symposium