Talk: New Forms of Design
11th September ’09, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Mercado de Santa Clara
Campo de Santa Clara, Lisbon, Portugal
As part of the Open Talks series which is to take place during this year’s ExperimentaDesign Lisbon, Paola Antonelli will host her very own talk show focusing on New Forms of Design.
With special guests Kevin Slavin, Neri Oxman and Oron Catts, Antonelli will bring to the fore issues surrounding interdisciplinarity and innovation in design.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They have the ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, and to convert them into objects and ideas that people can actually understand and use.
What they produce can sometimes resemble conceptual art or scientific experiment, but what all their endeavors share is a passion for interdisciplinarity and innovation, as well as an attention to the common good that makes them into crucial actors in the future of society and of the world.
