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Spore hosts: PLANETARY DESIGN: Reclaiming Futures
Workshops, screenings, performances, walks, and communal meals by artists, architects, designers, and activists engaged in critical thinking and doing around the role of design in making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.
26. October 2024
12.00-20.00
12.00-20.00
Save the Date
For free
all ages welcome
multilingual
Today, many people are experiencing the uneven impacts of climate change, pandemics, wars, market crashes, biodiversity loss, and supply chain disruptions on a global scale. That our planetary future is, at best, uncertain is widely accepted. The concurrent demands for accumulation, security, and resilience projected by those invested in keeping the status quo intact despite ever-intensifying environmental, technical, and political crises, drive a widespread disposition towards design-led innovation and technological fixes.
From smart mines to global logistics corridors and from biomimicry to geoengineering, design is increasingly harnessed to govern not just life, but the planetary environment as well as global and local populations. At the same time, design is seen as capable of addressing intractable problems and building participatory mechanisms and alternative paths forward. A growing number of activists and intellectuals today invest hope in design to foster possibilities for building more just, inclusive, and sustainable futures.
The programming emerges from commissioned projects produced over the last year that explore locally -specific designed realities across different parts of the world, spanning the South/North and urban/rural divide, and that inform of broader planetary conditions. Straddling the poetic and pragmatic, the critical and the speculative, the commissions at once reckon with inherited and continuing injustices while looking ahead to propose futures that are grounded and practicable.
The public program at Spore will follow a conference exploring similar questions that will take place at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on October 23-25, 2024. The conference and program together mark the culmination of Governing Through Design, a collaborative research project supported by a Sinergia Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The detailed program will be announced at a later stage.
