Future Sense: Symposium I: Sigil Collective

Sustainable development can be addressed from multiple viewpoints and disciplinary angles.

The discourse can address the issue from the perspective of natural resource and energy management, with regard to social justice and the distribution of wealth, or we can consider sustainability as a systemic issue intrinsic to processes in economy, society, and culture. Under the title future sense, the FHNW Academy of Art and Design (HGK FHNW) presents a loose series of lectures at the Campus of the Arts in Basel, inquiring into the question of how artists and designers can contribute to a sustainable future.

June 12, 2019, 10 am
Future Sense: Symposium I

10:00 Welcome by Prof. Michael Renner, interim director, FHNW Academy of Art and Design
10:15 Introduction by Dr. Nina Zimmer, director Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee
10:15 – 11:15 Lecture by Sigil Collective Sigil – Jana Traboulsi, Khaled Malas, Salim Al-Kadi, and Alfred Tarazi – is a collective based in Beirut and New York City.
11:15 – 12:00 Panel discussion with Sigil Collective, Prof. Matthias Böttger, Dr. Shintaro Miyazaki and Dr. Aylin Tschoepe, moderated by Dr. Nina Zimmer
12:15 Light lunch, high-rise, first floor
14:00 Introduction by Prof. Dr. Dorothée King, , Head of Learning Lab Arts and Design
14:15 – 15.15 Everything is Connected: Lecture by Christien Meindertsma, Dutch artist and designer
15.15 – 16.15 Migrant Journal – Exploring Migration beyond the Cliché: Talk by Michaela Büsse, Editor and Christoph Miler, Designer (Offshore Studio, Zurich)
16:15 Panel discussion with Christien Meindertsma, Michaela Büsse, Christoph Miler, Johannes Bruder and Meret Ernst, moderated by Prof. Dr. Dorothée King
17:00 Closing by Prof. Michael Renner
17.15 Apéro

The event is free of charge.

Save the date
June 21, 2019, 6:30 pm
Future Sense: Lecture by Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture)

October 25, 2019, 9am to 4 pm
Future Sense: Symposium II