Anyone, regardless of profession or status, who has an interest in DesignInquiry’s topics is welcome to participate.
You can participate in two ways:
- attend a gathering in person to share your ideas on the topic, as a talk or discussion, a workshop, an exhibition, a field trip; we meet annually in Vinalhaven, Maine, and elsewhere nationally and internationally.
- contribute to our WORK by submitting an online essay, photograph, video, sound project, digital art, or typography. The only requirement for submitting to DesignInquiry is that the work must directly address or clearly respond to a specific topic
CONTRIBUTE work to >> FastForward >> and DesignCity: Berlin (and other topics)
DesignInquiry shares the outcomes of its theme-based gatherings to inform and inspire design practice across disciplines. We also welcome experiments, visual-and textual, works-in-process, finished essays, lost pages, work-you-never-did-anything-with, or undiscovered gems. DesignInquiry is a collaborative laboratory, a place to test ideas and present research. Contributions are invited on all DI topics, past and present and future. A participatory peer-review process vets all submissions in an editorial feedback loop. Send your proposal to info@designinquiry.net. New contributions are added to our WORK in February and September.
VINALHAVEN 2012
DesignInquiry 2012, June 17–23
>> FastForward >>
The quickening pace of life calls for a rethink of time. With a deadline approaching or bombarded by the unforeseen, we are often forced to cut corners, think on our feet, fly by the seat of our pants. In the midst of these crises, time, which seemed so linear, fixed, immutable, becomes elastic: we find space to breathe, think, laugh, pull off unexpected feats. It’s while we are fast-forwarding, oddly, that new insights and possibilities can come to light. But the phrase >>fast-forward>> also suggests we have an end point in mind. FastForward ten or 10,000 years and what do we imagine we will have left behind? How might this longer view of time shift the way we make design decisions? DesignInquiry 2012: >>FastForward>> finds a wrinkle in time on a remote island in Maine to explore speed, time-being, and how we might redesign the future: through workshops, presentations, discussion and digestion.
BERLIN 2012
First Call for Participation: DesignCities BERLIN
DesignInquiry‘s second stop on a worldwide design expedition.
August 6th – 11th 2012
In 2006, Berlin, Germany was designated by UNESCO as the first European City Of Design. From a damaged city, Berlin has evolved into a multi-faceted melting-pot, with all its clashes and conflicts, new beginnings and fresh perspectives. It is unique in its ability to adapt to difficulties and experiment with the given. The radical changes within the city are visible everywhere you go and its constant flux draws artists and designers from all over the world, inviting them to experiment with it and create something new, fill the empty spaces. Berlin is becoming more and more a city of design participation, grassroots activism and DIY-initiatives. Berlin design seldom fits a fixed category of design but rather defines itself in-between disciplines drawing from the international influence and diverse backgrounds of its protagonists. It is a place where new tendencies in design are taken up very quickly, although they might not have been initiated here. Seemingly disparate ideas and approaches get entangled and (re-)mixed into something new.
In this spirit we invite you to participate in an experimental week to investigate and explore the design city, collaborate with its designers and develop and exchange ideas with international colleagues and friends.
More info: DesignCities BERLIN
APPLY
Contact us and we will send you a questionnaire in which you may propose anything you think is appropriate to the topic. These thoughts, ideas, experiences and observations will ideally become the starting point for a contribution to the DesignInquiry event and the publication. We will contact you to indicate if your proposal has been accepted. ie fits the mix for the gathering. Participants will be accepted until the program fills. Apply early.
For an application, email info@designinquiry.net – The sooner the better. Kindly specify which program you are interested in.
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