d>link 2012

Under the motto of “design> new strategies”, the MAK and departure will be holding a series of so-called design links. In five evening events all in all, personalities from the areas of design, the economy, and research from all over the world will be entering into a dialogue with the local creative community.
Brief keynote statements will be followed by a discussion of methods and strategies before the panel opens into a broad Questions & Answers knowledge market. To put the central
issue of the evening in different perspectives and to activate the knowledge transfer, representatives of Vienna-based institutions and research programs will be specifically
invited for each event.

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Tue 15.5.2012, 7.30 p.m.
How to Interact for a Better Future?

Fiona Raby (UK) & Barry M. Katz (USA)
(held in English)
MAK Lecture Hall

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Tue 19.6.2012, 8.00 p.m.
How Does Social Innovation Nurture Technological Innovation and Sustainable Growth?

Josephine Green (UK) & Ezio Manzini (I)
(held in English)
MAK Lecture Hall

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Tue 18.9.2012, 8.00 p.m.  
How to Use New Strategies of Design for Future Welfare?

Lorraine Gamman / Adam Thorpe (UK) & Aditya Dev Sood (IN)
(held in English)
MAK Lecture Hall

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Tue 9.10.2012, 8.00 p.m.
How to Bring New Values into Design?

Tim Vermeulen (NL) & Samuel Wilkinson (UK)
(held in English)  
MAK Lecture Hall

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Tue 23.10.2012, 8.00 p.m.
How Can Vienna Benefit from Einhoven’s Design Success?

Renny Ramakers (NL) & Formafantasma (I/NL)
(held in English)
MAK Lecture Hall
 

d>link guests 2012

Formafantasma is an Eindhoven-based design studio founded by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. The two Italian designers became internationally acclaimed for their intermediary design work between craft and industry, local necessity and the global market.
formafantasma.com

Lorraine Gammanis director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) at the University of the Arts, London and professor in design studies at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London.
Adam Thorpe is a designer and the creative director of DACRC in London. Together Gamman and Thorpe have won several awards for design innovation.
designagainstcrime.com

Josephine Greenis an internationally renowned expert in social foresight, innovation and change with her company Beyond20 in the UK. For more than 10 years she was the Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design in The Netherlands (1997–2009).

Barry M. Katz is professor of design at the California College of the Arts, Oakland/San Francisco, Consulting professor of mechanical engineering in the Design Division at Stanford University, and Fellow at IDEO, one of Silicon Valley’s leading design and innovation
consultancies. He has co-authored, with Tim Brown, Change By Design (2009).
ideo.com

Ezio Manziniis a leading strategist on sustainable design, professor at the Politecnico di Milano, and, amongst numerous other international academic positions, he is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, New York. He recently founded DESIS Network – Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability.
desis-network.org

Fiona Raby is a partner in the design partnership Dunne & Raby in London, internationally renowned for their future-scenario-based design work. Fiona Raby is professor of industrial design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and a reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London.
dunneandraby.co.uk

Renny Ramakersis the co-founder and director of Droog, Amsterdam. She initiates projects, curates design exhibitions, and lectures worldwide. She is a judging panellist on various design boards and, amongst others, is a member of the Dutch Council of Culture (1995–2001).
rennyramakers.com

Aditya Dev Sood is founder and CEO of the Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS), Bangalore/New Delhi. CKS provides design services like User Research, User Experience Design, and Innovation Management to international corporations in industries like telecommunications and security. He has directed three Doors of Perception conferences in India.
cks.in

Tim Vermeulen is program manager of Designworld at Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, Amsterdam. In 2004, Vermeulen started the Utrecht Manifest, Biennial for Social Design with Dutch furniture brand Pastoe and Centraal Museum Utrecht.
premsela.org

Samuel Wilkinson is a London based industrial designer, who most recently won international acclaim for projects like the energy-saving bulb Plumen 001, a collaborative design work with design brand Hulger. Prior to the foundation of his industrial design studio he has worked for Tangerine, Fitch London, PearsonLloyd and Conran.
samuelwilkinson.com

Program development:
Thomas Geisler, curator MAK Design Collection,
Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, concept and program management departure,
Scientific research and co-curator d>links: Martina Fineder



A cooperation of MAK & departure