Teachers Meeting in Oslo 2008

DESIGN IN A NEW PARADIGM: HOW TO RESPOND TO FAST CHANGING TIMES!

DATE: Thursday 31 January & Friday 1 February 2008

KUNSTHØGSKOLEN I OSLO (KHIO) OSLO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

PROGRAMME

Thursday 31 January

8.00 till 9.00 Coffee and Registration in Dean’s Office

9.00 to 9.05 Welcome

Room: Auditorium Kunstindustrimuseet (access via KHiO)

Cecilie Broch Knudsen: Rector of KHiO

Welcome to KHiO and reflections on the themes of the symposium

9.05 to 9.15 Primer Talk 1

Halldor Gislason: Dean of the Faculty of Design KHiO

What is unique about the role of design in Nordic Baltic Region?

9.15 to 9.25 Primer Talk 2

Maziar Raein: Head of MA Design KHiO

What I have learnt about Social responsibility

9.25 to 9.35 Primer Talk 3

Ingrid Røynesdal: Political Scientist

Title of talk to be Confirmed

9.35 to 9.45 Primer Talk 4

Per Mollerup: Professor, Dr.Tech

If the business of design is business

9.45 to 9.55 Primer Talk 5

Lorraine Farrelly: Associate Head of the School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth:

The Multi-Disciplinary Language of Design

9.55 to 10.05 Primer Talk 6

Laverns Løvlie: director Live|Work

We are what we do: a short introduction to Service Design.

10.05 to 10.30 Coffee & Cakes

10.30 till 12.00 First Parallel Session

Session 1

Room: To be Confirmed Design and Sustainability

Chair: Olof Kolte: Designer and Lecturer, University of Lund with Runa Klock and Reidar Holtskog

Shall we as designers close our eyes and carry on with “business as usual”, or shall we question this development and create new norms for a better way of arranging our society

Session 2 Space is an Interdisciplinary Agenda.

Chair: Lorraine Farrelly, Associate Head of School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth, UK with Vigdis Ruud, Ellen Klingenberg and Gry Lyngsnes Olsen

Space is an inter-disciplinary agenda. How can we explore the relationship between different disciplines, and the themes they bring to debates around social space?

Session 3 Entrepreneurship, Design policy. (the politics of design?)

Chair: Per Mollerup: Professor, Dr.Tech with Halldor Gislason, Marius Alexandra Troy

Design is such fun, but it is also business. This goal-oriented group will discuss how we can supply design students with a toolbox that will make their life as entrepreneurs, not easy, but more effective and efficient than it would otherwise be.

Session 4 SRVD (Socially Responsive Design)

Chair:Maziar Raein: Head of MA Design KHiO with Dominic Powers, Ingvild Skorge Hornseth

Socially Responsive Designers work to create strategic changes in society in order to deliver a sustainable quality of life and economic happiness. In this sense the main aim SRVD is to ‘perform and take action’ as oppose to Papenek’s ‘inform, reform and give form’. This session will look at the array of ideas designers must engage with in order to facilitate positive social change.

12.00 till 13.00 Lunch

13.00 till 14.30 Second Parallel Session

The session will follow from the morning session and begin to pull together some outcomes which can be practically used in our return to home institutions.

14.30 till 16.00

Room: Auditorium Kunstindustrimuseet (access via KHiO), Networking & Discussions with Coffee & Cakes. Theodor Barth, Master of Ceremonies

16.00 till 17.30

Room: Auditorium Kunstindustrimuseet (access via KHiO)

Plenum and presentations from Parallel Sessions. All delegates can deliver written questions for debate on Friday

17.30 onwards Dinner in Kunstnernes Hus

Friday 1 Feburary

9.00 till 10.00 Presentations of models of Nordic MAs

Room: Auditorium Kunstindustrimuseet (access via KHiO)

Four of the CIRRUS delegates will present models of education from their home institutions.

Pete Avondoglio; University of UmeĂĽ, Institute of Design, Sweden

Lizette GradĂŠn; Konstfack, Sweden

Tine Kjølse; Denmarks Designschool

Lennart Mänd; Estonian Academy of Arts

10.00 to 10.30 Coffee & Cakes

10.30 1o 12.00 Room: Auditorium Kunstindustrimuseet (access via KHiO)

Plenum and presentations from Parallel Sessions

We will pick up on the questions raised during the Parallel Sessions and also the previous days Networking

Sessions. We will provide question forms for this activity.

10.30 1o 12.00 Farewell

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