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Ongoing from 21th November 2009

Making the Myths Visible - A New Approach to Sustainability in Design and Design Education 09/10

Dr Emma Neuberg's forthcoming talks and workshops are designed to stimulate debate in and around the subject of Sustainable Thinking in Design & Design Education. These unique and pioneering dialogues arise from 15 years teaching experience and design research. They weave design, design education, psychology, well-being theory, sociology and semiotics into a new structure for study and dialogue.

  • Talk 1: Oppression and Dysfunction Through Design - A Window on to Destructive Social Aspects of Design
  • Talk 2: Different Ways of Thinking - An Introduction to Making Thought Conscious
  • Talk 3: Identification of Designers' Motivations - Locating & Giving Voice to the Designer's Long-term Vision
  • Talk 4: Group Dynamics, Power Struggles & Social Hierarchies - Shedding Light on Old Patterns of Production
  • Talk 5: Imperative Psychoanalytic Tools for Design Practice - Introduction to Projection and the Mechanics of Enactment
  • Talk 6: Repression and Dysfunction in Design - A Window on to the Dark Forces Manifest in Products
  • Talk 7: The Movement of Cultural Interpretation - Pattern is Now Good, Pattern is Now Bad
  • Talk 8: Imperative Psychoanalytic Tools for Critical Theory - An Introduction to Object Relations Theory
  • Talk 9: Semiotics as Starting Place - A Designer's Constructive Tool

The fee per session is £25 for members and £40 for non-members.

For more information please see the slow textiles blog.



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