How to make your body understand?

How can you make data visible?

How to convert facts and numbers into personal knowledge?

Design with society
+ dialogue with and participation of people involved
+their empowerment in the sense of building their own basic necessities

"There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a very few."

+ breaks with design consens: create what people really need

"Design can and must become a way in which young people can participate in changing society."

+ therefore much more research and responsibility needed

Vivien Tauchmann

"Self-As-Other-Trainings address the necessity of educating our bodies through the de-contextualisation of these silent exclusions and the active embodiment of the ‘other’ in choreographed storylines, in order to evoke critical self-reflection and eventually provoke behavioural change."

Michiel de Cleene
personal and intuitive research

+ collecting stories, meeting people
+ approaching a theme from very different perspectives
+ layering of different information

entanglement

research through design

How can design help making climate change tangible?

How can you overcome the gap btw knowledge and action?

Forensic Architecture

"Buildings are not only objects to be repaired, restored and lived in, but also sensors of the environment outside themselves."

climate change in social context

+ those who are least responsible for emissions feel impact first
+ gap just becomes bigger: privileged can just invest in technology whereas everyone else has to migrate
+ 400.000 death in Europe due to air pollution

+ standardization and mainstream is increasing fragility of the systems
+ biodiversity (subgroups) make nature resilient
+ movement to distributed systems (rediscovery of local farming, small-scale workshops, fab-labs)
+ localization using minimal resources and being optimal adapted to individual users on site
+ creating democratic, human-centered, sustainable society

gap between knowledge and action

global warming with its
+ shift of climate zones
+ rising sea levels
+ decline of biodiversity
+ export of waste
+ privatization of water sources
...

Cambio Formafantasma

+ read how climate changes by telling the story of trees
+ invitation for discussion about complexity of our world

role that design can play in translating emerging environmental awareness into informed, collaborative responses.