Victor Margolin at DIT, 6.00pm, Wednesday 9 April 2014

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public lecture series 2013-14

Victor Margolin

Design and the Risk of Change

6pm Wednesday 9^th April 2014

Lecture Room G6, School of Art Design and Printing

Dublin Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1

The biggest risk we face is the risk to change the world for the better so that the problems that normally face us, such as climate change and poverty, do not have the same influence on our lives. This lecture will address the risk of creating a new culture of sustainability, where we can live closer to ecological principles and the ideals of social justice. The lecture deals with task designers face in deciding what kind of world they want to help bring about and then how they can cooperate to make the one in which we currently live more resilient.

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Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a founding editor and now co-editor of the academic design journal Design Issues. Professor Margolin has published widely on diverse design topics and lectured at conferences, universities, and art schools in many parts of the world. Books that he has written, edited, or co-edited include Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion, WW II, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitsky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1936, Design Discourse, Discovering Design, The Idea of Design, The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies, and Culture is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art. He is currently working on a World History of Design, to be published by Bloomsbury. The first two of three volumes are scheduled for publication in December 2014.

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Elizabeth Resnick at DIT, 6pm, Wednesday, 12 March 2014

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Elizabeth Resnick

Propaganda and Protest Graphics:
A Selective View of Civic Empowerment and Resistance by Artists and Designers

6pm Wednesday, 12^th March 2014

Lecture Room G6, School of Art Design and Printing

Dublin Institute of Technology, 41 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1

This lecture will explore a selective contemporary view of propaganda and protest through the graphic arts, which has always mirrored the technological innovations such as movable type, lithography, offset printing and now personal computers and the Internet. Life-altering events such as recent political upheavals, health concerns, and natural disasters linked to climate change, stimulate artists and designers to increasingly use their visual work to comment on the world in which they live.

The Internet’s role in expanding the channels of communication beyond the printed page through electronic distribution has become the new paradigm in the new millennium. Digital tools afford artists and designers the means to make, distribute and disseminate images and information to influence opinion, raise consciousness, raise funds for humanitarian causes, and encourage the global community to act for change.

Elizabeth Resnick is Professor and currently Chair of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts USA. She is a passionate design curator who has organized six comprehensive design exhibitions, most with co-curators, including Russell Mills: Within/Without (1991) with Teresa Flavin, Dutch Graphic Design: 1918-1945 (1994) with Alston W. Purvis, Makoto Saito: Art of the Poster (1999) with Jan Kubasiewicz, The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005) with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman, Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010), and Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age: 2001–2012 (2012).

Her publications include catalogues for the exhibitions mentioned above, Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics (2003), Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication for Prentice-Hall Publications (1984), and is currently completing a new book Developing Citizen Designers, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Professor Resnick also writes occasional commentaries, event reviews, and has published interviews with prominent designers and design educators in EYE Magazine (UK), AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (USA), Graphis Magazine (USA) Graphics International Magazine (UK), TipoGrafica Magazine (Argentina) and IDEA Magazine (Japan).

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Bernard Stiegler at DIT, 6pm, Wednesday, 18 December 2013

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Bernard Stiegler

Text, Image and Language

6.00pm, Wednesday 18th December, 2013

Lecture Room G6, Dublin Institute of Technology

Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1

Bernard Stiegler is one of the leading French philosophers of our generation. He develops the work Jacques Derrida, Gilbert Simondon, and Andre Le Roi-Gourhan in a wide-ranging analysis of our relationship with technology. Stiegler established himself in France in 1994 with the publication of the first volume of Technics and Time. This three-volume series has now been published in English translation by Stanford University Press.

Since Technics and Time, Stiegler has remained a prolific author, publishing, for example, the two volumes of De la misère symbolique (‘Of Symbolic Misery’) in 2004, three volumes of Mécréance et discrédit (‘Disbelief and Discredit’) from 2005 to 2006, Constituer l’Europe (‘Constituting Europe’) in 2005, and Prendre soin (‘Taking Care’) in 2008. Most recently, his Pharmacologie du Front National (2013) continues the project of ‘positive pharmacology’ which he started in 2010 with the publication of Ce qui fait que la vie vaut la peine d'être vécue: De la pharmacologie (‘What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology’, in 2013).

BERNARD STIEGLER is Head of the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Center in Paris, Professor at Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Visiting Professor to Goldsmiths, University of London. In addition, he is Director of the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation, founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis, and founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, Ecole de Philosophie d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel.
 

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