Design – A Dialogue without Boundaries

NEWS!

Dates
19-24 February 2024

Location
IAAD. Turin

Every academic year IAAD. devotes the third week of February to research by organizing IAAD. DESIGN WORKSHOP, a synergistic workshop system that represents a moment of participated thought, whose aim is to invite students, professors, and cultural representatives to constructively confront the problems and opportunities of the community. Thoughts to be transformed into projects, all within a week of teamwork.

IAAD. Design Workshops are open to every third year IAAD. academic student and to host students’ delegations from other Italian and international colleges. Once the wider thematic area is defined, it is then organized into different workshops approaching it from different points of view.

This fourteenth edition (February 19-24, 2024), titled “DESIGN – A DIALOGUE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES,” has been planned in cooperation with Itinerari Paralleli and will focus on the concept of “border“.

DESIGN – A DIALOGUE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

Are we aware how influenced our lives are by lines and borders that define who we are, how we live and probably more than that, what we “can’t be” as individuals and professionals? Interconnection, multichannel, cross-sectoral approaches fill our vocabulary in everyday life as designers, while the world keeps on growing and conflicting around divisions based on physical, cultural, economic boundaries.

Yet creativity can’t be confined, defined, and oriented on a straight line of purpose. That’s why, as designers, we should grasp the unstoppable need to use our potential to solve division and promote melting-pot processes and solutions for all.

Not by chance, the World Design Capital 2024 will be hosted by the binational region of San Diego (US) – Tijuana (Mexico), one of the unique experiences where physical crossing is fostering contamination on different levels and disciplines, so as in Europe, one of the next European Cultural Capital will be hosted by the cross-border cities of Gorizia (ITA) – Nova Gorica (SLO). Two clear examples of how creativity is moving to counteract a global tendency to move following boundaries and divisions. For this reason, the 2024 Design Workshop edition is asking students, teachers, and the AD Education community to imagine new opportunities and solutions to solve present divisions and contribute to the role of design as a dialogue without boundaries.

THEMATIC AREAS AND WORKSHOPS

Moving through invisible boundaries

Biases and prejudice shape our thoughts, language, and relations. How can we keep on pushing for a less hostile society, promoting the value of difference from a creative perspective?

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BEYOND BOUNDARIES: TACKLING MENTAL HEALTH PREJUDICE THROUGH URBAN CULTURAL HERITAGE

Team Leaders: Giulia Sala, Irene Tozzi and Asia Mounsabi (Mad In Design)

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GENERATIVE MUSIC AND SOUNDSCAPES

Team Leader: Elia Pellegrino

Physical or digital? Maybe both!

We seem doomed to an artificial future, but can human empathy and perspective still be a source for hybrid solutions to discover new worlds of phygital consistency?

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VIRTUAL REALITY: A NEW TOOL FOR EDUCATION?

Team Leader: Jacopo Gottlieb

Dialogical cities and spaces

Even if under constant debate, urban spaces are still a monologue in terms of mobility, work/life rhythm, public opportunities. Equality and equity for city access is still a relevant goal that design should have as a polar star. How can the design community contaminate competences and skills to achieve inclusive communities?

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BORDERLESS MOBILITY DESIGN

Team Leaders: Dario Olivero and Alessandro Argenio

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LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS

Team Leader: Alberto Piazzalunga (Itinerari Paralleli)

Boundaries in eco design innovation

Design has obviously accepted the need to adopt nature-based, sustainable products and services. But what is still on the agenda is how to balance consumption with a sustainable production system. What are the main obstacles, challenges, and boundaries for a full Just Transition?

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DESIGN THE IMPOSSIBLE: DESIGN AND UTOPIA TO REREAD REALITY

Team Leader: Enrico Tarò