The designer as trickster - and Design's tricky future? by Lorraine Gamman and Tom Fisher

“Tricky Design: Design Ethics for a Complex World” Symposium, The Design Museum, London.

This keynote lecture begins to look at what role design should play in today’s complex world? What tools and strategies are available for design to engage with the ethical conundrums of the present? And what type of ethics does design need most?

Agenda
Friday 7 June, 10.00 – 17.30
10.00: Registration open
10.30: Welcome and Introduction: What is Tricky Design?

10.45 – 11.45:
Panel 1: How can we design with others in an ethical way?
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad (RCA)
Eduardo Staszowski (Parsons New School of Design)
Torange Khonsari (public works)

11.45: Break

12.15 – 12.55:
Panel 2: How does ethics shape the things we design?
Mahmoud Keshavarz (Uppsala University)
Kate Davies and Liam Young (Unknown Fields Division)
Stephanie Hankey (Tactical Technology Collective)

13.15–14.15: Lunch

14.15 – 15.15:
Panel 3: How should design intervene in the public sphere?
Sarah Rhodes
Lucy Kimbell (Institute for Social Design, UAL)
Shana Agid (Parsons New School of Design)

15.15: Break

15.45 – 16.45:
Panel 4: Can new ecologies provide a more equitable path for design?
Jeremy Kidwell (University of Birmingham)
Carole Collet (Central St Martins, UAL)
Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University)

16.45: Closing Remarks

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