in|discussion
public lecture series 2013-14
Victor Margolin
Design and the Risk of Change
6pm Wednesday 9th 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.
All are welcome to this
free public event.
To secure your place,
please book by email: indiscussionadp@gmail.com
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