Friday, 15 May
9:00 Coffee, Assembling
9:30 Welcome Remarks
Matthias Görlich, Andrew Gilbert
9:45 Milestones, Manifestos, Ruptures and Reckonings
Danah Abdulla, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tristan Schultz, Luiza Prado
Moderator: Imad Gebrael
10:30 Critical Design Today: Presentation + Q&A
Title TBA
Danah Abdulla
Title TBA
Mahmoud Keshavarz
Exposure: A Life of Sustained Critical Practice at the Edge of Design
Tristan Schultz
Title TBA
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
sensory, sculptural, seats: between Access Riders & Collaboration Agreements (Workshop)
Ren Loren Britton
Witnessing, Storytelling, and Decolonial Design Practice (Workshop)
Adeela Firdous, Jana Braun
Designing Whiteness: Monte Verità and the Colonial Making of White Ecological Intimacy (Workshop/Guided Collective Reading)
Saskia Köbschall
Beyond Institutionalized Critique Pt. 1 – Reflection and Conversation on Design and Class (Struggle) (Workshop)
Quang Nguyen
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Panel 1
Moderated by Elsa Westreicher
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: TBD
17:00 Break
17:30 IDCA 1970 – Legacies of Critical Design Raptures and Ruptures
(Film Screening and Discussion)
Johanna Mehl
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Beyond Institutionalized Critique Pt. 2 – Reflection and Conversation on Design and Class (Struggle) (Stammtisch)
Quang Nguyen
Saturday, 16 May
9:00 Coffee, Assembling
10:00 Panel 2
Moderated by Dandara Maia
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 Aboofazali
Rugs as a Practice of Counter-Mapping: Spatial Knowledge as Relational Practice
Alexandra Dimitraki
Discussants: TBD
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Workshops and Conversations 2
Speaking Bitterness (Conversation)
Cornelia Lund, Xiyu Tomorrow
Meme-Making as a practice of critical disidentification (Workshop)
Felix Kosok
How can critical design be practiced in the museum space? (Workshop)
Marie Nadege Tsogo, Szandra Tebbe
Reactivating Ancestral Design as a Practice of Possibilities (Workshop)
Serge Matuta
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 What Was Missing: Publishing at the Intersection of Feminism, Design,
and Politics
Nina Paim
16:00 Critical Design, Then and Now
Moderated by Mara Reklies
with Danah Abdulla, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tristan Schultz, Luiza Prado
16:45 Final Reflections: Critical Design for the Next Decade
Moderated by Andrew Gilbert
17:30 End of Symposium
