The two-day conference will be held in the centre of Amsterdam in the Netherlands on 8th and 9th May 2014. Designers of all disciplines will gather together to present and discuss the latest findings on the nature of and strategies for design creativity. The topics will revolve around the role played by designers in economic and sustainable developments. The aim of the conference is to raise awareness among the public for the potential of creativity and the impact design has on social relations. At the same time, What Design Can Do calls on designers to take responsibility and consider how their work affects society.
The presentations will consider the designer's role in the fields of education, nature, economy and history. In one of the Breakout sessions, titled Learning from Process – How to Design Education?, two researchers from Poland - Agata Nowotny and Monika Rosińska - will share their ideas on design as a source of inspiration in creating an educational programme. They will present case studies as well as different models of design education, focusing on new and experimental ways of teaching in the School of Form (Poznań, Poland).
Agata Nowotny - sociologist and researcher, design process consultant, design animator and lecturer (Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw and School of Form, Poznań)
Monika Rosińska -sociologist, design researcher, lecturer, co-founder of INvisible Design – an interdisciplinary platform for designers and researchers.
8-9 May 2014, Amsterdam
Speakers: Agata Nowotny, Monika Rosińska
8 May 2014, 14 – 15:30 PM
Source: organizers materials, What Design Can Do, ed. GS, 30.04.2014