Tag: design
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EVENT 17 May: Technology in Human-Animal Relations
Category: UncategorizedTags: animals, birdhouses, design, environmental humanities, event, human-animal-relations, lecture, non-human animals, stavanger, technologyFinn Arne and Dolly Jørgensen from the University of Stavanger will visit the VU on the 17th of May. The theme of their lectures is technology in human-animal relations, specifically concerning bird houses and dogs with antennas. Save the date!
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BURN-OUT: Call for Fellows Het Nieuwe Instituut
Category: NewsThrough its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale.
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EHC Special Event: Kenny Cupers, The Earth that Modernism Built
Category: NewsProfessor Cuper’s lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (15 april) explores the roots of the modernist project – both heroic and tragic – to design the human by reshaping the environment, from the domestic sphere to the earth at large.
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Board member Sjoerd Kluiving at Dutch Design Week
Category: NewsOur board member Sjoerd Kluiving took part in a panel on design in the Anthropocene during Dutch Design Week. A video of the discussion is now available.
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EHC Podcast: Waste
Category: NewsTags: Alice Twemlow, architecture, design, Jeroen Dagevos, marine litter, Media, plastic, Tiwanee van der Horst, waste, water qualityThis podcast by student board members Julia Kantelberg and Germaine van der Sanden explores the topic of waste from the perspective of a scientist, a design critic and an architect. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/311185160″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Alice Twemlow: ————————————————————————————————- Alice Twemlow is a design curator, educator, event organiser and…
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Environmental Humanities & Waste event + Excursion
Category: NewsTags: consumerism, design, excursion, literature, plastic, re-use, recycling, smart cities, waste, waste managementWith Alice Twemlow, Rachele Dini, and Dave Hakkens Friday 10 February, 2017 At this event, we invite you to confront and ponder an object that we usually wish dispose of quickly. To examine waste in all its materiality, we invite 15 people to join us on a morning excursion to…
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CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsTags: Alistair Fuad-Luke, anthropocene, art, design, education, environmental humanities, Piet Zwart Institute, symposium, T. J. DemosAgents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today symposium—call for presentations Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in ArtJanuary 26–28, 2017 Proposal deadline: December 16, 2016 The Master of Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute is pleased to announce an open call for presentations for the two-day…