WORKSHOP5_DESIGNING CONCERNS OF FUTURE CITIES - BAUHAUS TRANSFORMED

Designers are challenged to conceive socio-designs for future cities that will be driven by digital transformation. For this task we will draw from a parallel situation in history: The German Bauhaus (1919-1932)—part of the European heritage and the start of the Modern Movement—is globally known for addressing the fundamental questions of a technology-driven culture. The Bauhaus masters found answers in a new model of education and production, linking crafts, arts and industry. Today we take this model for an inspiration as we create and anticipate new answers appropriate for our time.

Questions are:
How can new cultural patterns be created that integrate tradition and digital transformation?
How to design concerns like health, housing, education, mobility and security?
How can we advance cultural heritage from China and Europe and build on it?

We introduce the concept of concerns and experiment with designing cultural formats. Design organizes signs, structures and events. Based on universal principles these activities embody qualities that form the building blocks for ethics, services and socio-psychology. Together with the world of smart materials they form future cultural formats.

Transformation Design redesigns cultural patterns that build on basic universal experiences.

The workshop includes -Introduction to the concept of concerns based on Actor Network Theory

Cultural patterns: detect and re-enact socio-technical rituals
Community: observe attractors and rules, describe dynamics
Find "matters of concern“, articulate them in a model
Design new concerns, test implementation

Participants will learn about cultural patterns and the concept of concerns that opens a non-normative and participatory perspective to complement the traditional concept of needs. The transformation of concerns is at the heart of the creative impulse, leading to a new set of professional design competence in Transformation Design.

Peter Friedrich Stephan
Peter Friedrich Stephan is a designer, researcher, author and musician. He is full professor for Transformation Design at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, guest lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts and partner with the Institute of Electronic Business in Berlin.Peter works on the future of design and its interactions with art, science, humanities and economy. Peter recently founded the Low End Academy which focuses on providing design intelligence for minimal standards of quality and competence.

Enno Hyttrek
Enno Hyttrek is a designer based in Berlin/Germany. Originally trained as a graphic designer in the swiss-german modernist tradition, he likes to cross borders between disciplines and in his more than 25 years of professional experience has designed everything from business cards to roof gardens, from healthcare systems to giant ferris wheels. In the process he developed a design approach he calls Context Design. Co-founder of Quilt And Blanket Shanghai/Berlin, consultancy for intercultural communication, founder of recodeLAB, an independent research group (current research project: ‘The Languages of Design’). His interest in the topic of transformation stems from 10 years living and working in China, with the ever evolving and transforming city of Shanghai around him.

SHI, Yang
He is a Dutch licensed architect and has worked for UNStudio and OMA in Netherlands. Shi Yang is currently the founding principal at hyperSity architectural office and faculty member at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) Beijing.
Shi Yang got his B.Arch from Central Academy of Fine Arts and M.Sc at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Afterwards he did his postgraduate research at Strelka Institute in Moscow following Rem Koolhaas.
He has been working on interdisciplinary urban research and architecture design. Installation work ‘Time&Space’ exhibited at 1st Beijing Architecture Biennale, 2004. Urban research ‘Desire Beijing’ exhibited at ‘Beijing/Beijing’ International Art Exhibition, 2005. Urban research ‘Political Branding’ attended ‘Get it louder’ Exhibition, 2012. Installation work ‘Lingnan Utopia’ was exhibited in Lingnan Memorial Museum of Painting, 2013. Architecture research ‘Forgotten Modernism’ attended 2013 Segovia Contemporary Chinese Architecture Exhibition, Spain.