Wednesday Nov 31th 2012, 6 pm, Designforum Vienna,MQ. Panel members: Lena Gold, Yana Milev, Gerhard Senft, moderated by Harald Gründl, IDRV. What are the politics of design? Can design help to bring about social change? As part of the Tools for the Design Revolution exhibition, we will discuss a co…
IDRV Institute of Design Research Vienna
Yana Milev is media artist and cultural scientist. She studied stage design, fine arts and cultural theory in Dresden, martial arts in Kyoto and Berlin, cultural philosophy, media theory and anthropology of art in Vienna and Karlsruhe, and cultural sociology in St. Gallen. In 1987 Yana founded the AOBBME – Association of Black Box Multiple Environments. In 2011 she published “Emergency Design, Anthropotechniken des Über/Lebens“. Since 2012 she qualifies as a professor at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Department of Sociology. She is the founder of the research field of "design anthropology".
Lena Gold studied Industrial Design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts from 2006 to 2012. She worked for taliaysebastian in the field of social and human design. Lena’s recycling-performance-project theatre of destruction was shown at the Vienna Design Week 2012.
Harald Gruendl: Chairman of IDRV and designer (EOOS), moderator of the 4th circle.
Gerhard Senft is professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History, Vienna University of Economics. He worked as an engineer for several years before he studied economics. His work and Publications are focused on the anarchist movement, free economy and individual anarchism, dogma history of economics, history of social movements, the history of political ideas, time, effort and money in the process of modernization, technology development and socialization process; fascism research and policy of economics.