{"id":823,"date":"2021-09-21T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b9yfmxx.myraidbox.de\/?post_type=events&p=823"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:23:37","slug":"workshop-relational-design","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/workshop-relational-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Relational Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Organizers:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Lutz Hengst, Sophia Prinz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date and place:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

1 July 2021 \u2013 18.00-20.00
Evening lecture by Tulga Beyerle
HIAS\/online \u2013 registration until 30 June to: event@hias-hamburg.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 July 2021 \u2013 11.00 a.m. \u2013 5.30 p.m. Workshop
online \u2013 registration until 30 June to: event@hias-hamburg.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topic:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The discourse on the \u201csocial\u201d aspects of design is currently experiencing a boom. Numerous publications and conferences talk about \u201cSocial Design\u201d, \u201cCritical Design\u201d, \u201cPolitics of Design\u201d, \u201cDesign Activism\u201d, \u201cTransformation Design\u201d and many more. However, the sheer volume of design-theoretical neologisms and appeals already points to a latent self-overload: Critical design has set itself the goal of nothing less than to design a new, fairer world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This future-oriented design will is reminiscent of the modernist design utopias of the early 20th century. However, today\u2019s designers are confronted with another social problem: it can no longer be a matter of fabricating a \u201cnew man\u201d with the help of technical innovations. On the contrary, the central question of current design should be how to minimize or even reverse the social, cultural, and environmental damage caused by such technocratic feasibility fantasies.
To be able to answer this question, it is necessary to determine more precisely how socio-cultural processes and design are intertwined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many design theories assume that society can be fundamentally shaped and thus tend to neglect the intrinsic dynamics of the social, conversely, the social sciences have so far hardly developed any approaches to theoretically and analytically understand the social effectiveness of design and (aesthetic) form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, the planned workshop aims to advance the interdisciplinary exchange on theory building in social sciences and design science. It is not only about \u201cdesign\u201d in the narrower sense (i.e. about the professional field of production), but also about everyday, non-intentional and implicit design processes in a wide variety of socio-material contexts. These socio-material design contexts can only be understood relationally . This means the social aspects of design can never be analysed on the basis of individual artefacts or media, but only as spatio-temporal constellations and networks of heterogeneous elements (i.e. materials, artefacts, technologies, bodies, practices, spaces, infrastructures, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a relational understanding of design, which has already been formulated to some extent by Lucius Burckhardt, will be further formulated here from different theoretical perspectives (practice theory, postphenomenology, posthumanism, systems theory, art and environmental history). The focus of the discussion is on the activity of \u201cnatural\u201d materials and resources: what role do they play in the various design processes and how do socio-material forms change as a result of the creative approach to nature?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guiding questions:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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  • Which social, cultural and societal theoretical instruments and heuristics are available for the analysis of constellations of design? What role does the aspect of form play in this?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Which human and non-human \u201cactants\u201d, networks and practices are part of design processes?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • What is the \u201cactivity\u201d of the (natural) materials in the design process?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • How have industrial and urban landscapes changed over the course of modernity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • What role do colonial raw materials play in modern design?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • To what extent is the ecological crisis also a question of design?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    Workshop participants:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Andreas Dix (Otto-Friedrich-Universit\u00e4t Bamberg)
    Jesko Fezer (HfBK Hamburg)
    Hanna G\u00f6bel (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg)
    Sandra Groll (FH Potsdam)
    Anke Gruendel (HU Berlin)
    Lutz Hengst (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg)
    Ilaria Hoppe (KU Linz)
    Dominik H\u00fcnniger (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg)
    Claudia Mareis (HU Berlin)
    Sophia Prinz (HIAS\/ ZHdK Z\u00fcrich)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Program of the workshop on 02.07.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Programm des Workshops am 02.07.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    11.00<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Welcome Lutz Hengst\/ Sophia Prinz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    11.15<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Exemplary Landscapes \u2013 Designed
    Spaces Moderation: Lutz Hengst\/ Dominik H\u00fcnniger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lutz Hengst: Inhospitability of the suburbs? Notes on the spatial unequal distribution of design forms and design approaches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Andreas Dix: B42 \u2013 or some remarks on landscape in transformation processes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ilaria Hoppe: Street Art in Urban Spaces: A Comparison between Metropolitan Community Building and Peripheral Reception<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    13.00<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    14.00<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Design of complex systems
    Moderation: Sophia Prinz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Claudia Mareis\/ Anke Gruendel: Governing Through Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sandra Groll: Integrative Design and Relational Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    15.30<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    16.00<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Design and Socio-Material Practice
    Moderation: Sophia Prinz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jesko Fezer: Partisan design. Anti-neutral design in the social scuffle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hanna G\u00f6bel: Posthuman forms and mis\/fittings. On the relationality of bodies and artifacts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (Sophia Prinz: Forms of Entanglement. Design in the Global Modern Age)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    17.30<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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