Colloquium Program

Globalisation is a Design Issue

Venue: Museum of Cultures, Münsterplatz 20, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Date: June 20 – 22, 2017

 

Tues., June 20 Globalisation is a Design Issue
14:30 Welcome: Kirsten Langkilde (Director of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design)
14:45 Regine Halter, Catherine Walthard, Anka Falk

Introducing the research project Cultural Spaces and Design
Résumé of the International Workshops in India, Botswana, Australia

15:50 Coffee break
16:10 Keynote: Leyla Belkaïd Neri
Interstitial Maps for Design Pedagogy:
Connective Materialities in the Making
16:55 Discussion and resumé of the first day
17:40 End

 

Wed., June 21 Cultural Spaces and Design
09:30 Introduction
09:40 Gilbert Riedelbauch (Australia)
Cultural Spaces: A Point of View from Canberra, Australia
10:25 Himadri Ghosh (India)
Educating awareness of Indian Lifestyle impact over Craft Traditions
11:05 Coffee break
11:20 Richie Moalosi (Botswana)
Ubuntu co-creation process: Indigenising the design process
12:00 Discussion
12:45 Lunch break
Experiencing the Other
 14:00 Keynote: Jilly Traganou
Cultured Spaces: from Travel to Stasis
 14:30 Atelier: Introduction and Workshop Presentations
Design Innovation and Cultural Heritage (Botswana)
Camouflage and Object Recognition (Australia)
Stories of Kantha (India)
15:40 Coffee break
16:00 Discussion
16:45 End

 

Thurs., June 22 Implementations
09:15 Anna Schmid (Director Museum der Kulturen Basel)

Meeting point: reception of the Museum der Kulturen Basel

09:50 Carlos Montana Hoyos
Cross-Culturality, Multidisciplinarity and Globalisation in Design Education:
experiences through study tours.
10:10 Himadri Ghosh
The experiment Cultural Spaces: Evolving a course of Cultural Anthropology in Banasthali
10:30 Satellite workshop: Tatiana Tavares
Ko Wai Ko Au Ko Au Ko Wai – I am Water, Water is Me
10:50 Satellite workshop: Eric Simon
Eau! Wasser! Acqua! Water! Agua!
11:15 Coffee break
Prospects of Design Education
11:30 Regine Halter, Catherine Walthard, Anka Falk

The Designer’s Travel Kit

12:10 Documentations – Reflections on Experiences
12:30 The Module – Education Curricula
13:00 Lunch break
13:45 Discussion and Conclusions
14:40 End of the Colloquium