"Angewandte" Issues an Invitation to a Social Design Competition
- The University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York Have Launched the Design for the Real World Redux Competition
VIENNA, Austria, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Together with the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (MAD) and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the University of Applied Arts Vienna has launched the first international competition for social design, Design for the Real World Redux.
Both established and young, up-and-coming designers and students are invited to submit
innovative and radical examples of ecologically responsible and/or socially committed design by June 1, 2011 at the latest. In line with the philosophy of Victor J. Papanek, the entries should deal with the practical problems of everyday life or social needs and can relate to every aspect of product design including furniture, lighting, tools, fixtures and fittings, transport and other three-dimensional objects. The items in question should exist in real form, either as an exemplary realization or a finished prototype.
An international jury composed of leading global experts from relevant specialist areas and representatives of the sponsor institutions will adjudge the work. One outstanding submission will be presented with the first Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award.
The projects of the competition winners will be presented in a catalogue and an exhibition at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (November 10, 2011 - January 31, 2012) and then at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (March 6, 2012 - June 17, 2012).
As a result of his seminal publication Design for the Real World (1971), the development of the principles of socially responsible design in organizations such as UNESCO and the WHO, and respect towards the cultural practices of indigenous peoples, the Austrian-born, American designer Viktor J. Papanek (1927 - 1999) is seen as an international pioneer of social design.
Opening of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation and anti-design symposium
November 2011 will see the opening of the newly Victor J. Papanek Foundation, which is to belong to the collections of the "Angewandte" and be headed by Alison Clarke.
The Victor J. Papanek Foundation will administer the newly purchased archive and library derived from Papanek's working life. The Foundation has been brought to life in order to further the consideration of design from the perspective of social responsibility. According to Papanek, creativity in line with social design is an innovative and inventive process that can generate social change and contribute to the common good. Fully in accordance with his critical and inter-cultural understanding of design culture, the Foundation will pursue a holistic design approach, which seeks to counteract the purely commercial imperatives of product culture. At a time when good design is rarely found where it is most needed, the Foundation has set itself the task of upholding the role of designers as significant mediators of humanitarian ideals. Gerald Bast, the "Angewandte" rector: "When we consider our world, we must clearly place an utterly resolute focus on the design of the future through the creation of new realities in both an intellectual and aesthetic sense."
As part of the opening of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, on November 10-11, 2011, the "Angewandte" will be holding the international, anti-design symposium "PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION", in which leading personalities from the international design scene will participate:
Paola Antonelli (Senior Curator, Design and Architecture, MoMA) Gerald Bast (Rector, University of Applied Arts Vienna) Alison Clarke (Head of the Theory and History of Design Department, Victor J. Papanek Foundation) Professor Anthony Dunne (Design Interactions, Royal College of Art London) Jamer Hunt (Director, Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons The New School for Design, NYC) Professor Felicity D. Scott (Architecture Department, Columbia University) John Thackara (socially responsible and sustainable design pioneer) Detailed information for submissions vjpsocialdesign.madmuseum.org http://www.dieangewandte.at Contact University of Applied Arts Vienna PR and Event Management Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna T: +43-1-711-33 DW 2161, F: DW 2169 Anja Seipenbusch-Hufschmied Anja.seipenbusch@uni-ak.ac.at; marietta.boening@uni-ak.ac.at http://www.dieangewandte.at
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