Grand Hornu, Belgium, march 22-23, 2013
Curators: Stéphane Degoutin, Olivier Peyricot, Catherine Geel, David Enon, Sophie Breuil
DESIGN, POVERTY, FICTION est un festival, qui associe des communications scientifiques , des rencontres, des projections de films, un bar, des expériences de design et des propositions festives. Des théoriciens et des praticiens dialoguent sur la question des besoins humains fondamentaux, des richesses cachées, des formes d’exploitation du travail à interroger. Il est issu d’une réflexion entre designers et théoriciens et la forme à construire est offerte aux étudiants de 4ème et 5ème année et de Master de trois écoles d’art et design en Europe, qui en proposent le display, la part artistique et la programmation festive.
Mechanical Turk, néo-primitivisme, culture punk, hard discount, vie dans le désert, potlatch, discours contradictoires de l’aide humanitaire, salariat vs. aides sociales…
DESIGN, POVERTY, FICTION is a festival filled with guests, scientific communications, encounters, films, a bar, design experiences and a party. Practitioners and theoreticians, activists, designers and artists will consider poverty as a raw material and will examine the fictionalization of poverty. They will exchange views on the question of fundamental human needs, hidden wealth and new forms of exploitation of workers… The festival is deriving from a reflection between practitioners and theoreticians and its shape is offered to Master students of 3 European school of art and design. They are proposing the display, the artistic part and the festive programming.
Mechanical Turk, néo-primitivism, punk culture, hard discount, life in the desert, potlatch, relief agencies’ contradictory discourses, wage system vs. social
assistance…
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