Design is in crisis: Or, at the very least, in massive transition, exploring and rediscovering its potential during deeply problematic times. The Papanek Symposium 2019, under the theme Real World: Design, Politics, Future, investigates design’s inherent tensions in the context of rising global far-right populism and the asphyxiating manipulation of information in a post-truth era. What potential is there for envisaging alternative political futures, and what role might design, and its politics, have in contributing to those futures? Strands of contemporary design practice proffer a critical, and often apocalyptic and dystopic vision of the future, while others happily conform to a financial system that demands a new consumable product for each and every multifarious context. The stakes for design have never been higher, as its interventions are dispersed across all aspects of the informational, virtual and material strata that shape our real worlds. Participants Ahmed Ansari; Akwugo Emejulu; Annelys de Vet; Cameron Tonkinwise; Flavia Dzodan; Natsai Audrey Chieza; Decolonising Design Group Organization Alison J. Clarke and Francisco Laranjo Graphic Design Francisco Laranjo 26 SEP 9:30 am Registration 10:00 am Welcome President University of Applied Arts Vienna, Dr. Gerald Bast Ambassador, Dr. Robert Zischg Symposium Conveners, Alison J. Clarke and Francisco Laranjo 10:30 am Ramia Mazé Control or Care? Politics of Designing Visions of the Future 11:00 am Akwugo Emejulu The Aesthetics of Domination 11:30 am Sasha Costanza-Chock Design Justice: Principles, Processes and Practices to Challenge Systemic Inequalities 12:00 am Flavia Dzodan Design for Decolonial Futures: How 17th century Taxonomies Continue Shaping Our Technologies 12:30 am Q&A 01:00 pm Lunch, Foyer 01:30 pm Natsai Audrey Chieza Convergence, A New Generation of Biomaterials 03:00 pm Annelys de Vet Visual Strategies for Solidarity: How to Engage in Polarized Realities Through Design? 03:30 pm Ahmed Ansari Reconceiving Design from the Perspectives of Design’s Others: Cosmological Perspectivism, Cosmotechnics, & Designing for the Pluriverse 04:00 pm Cameron Tonkinwise Reliable, Local, Scalable: The Postcolonial Trilemma of Cosmo-Localism 04:30 pm Q&A 05:00 pm Drinks & Port of Honour, Foyer 27 SEP Led by the Decolonising Design Group 9:30 am Open Forum Portuguese Colonialism, Auditorium 12:30 am Lunch, Foyer 02:00 pm Parallel Workshops, Various Locations · Provincialising Design: Non-western Cosmologies and Indigenous Knowledge · Design Politics of Bodies: Tackling the Coloniality of Bodies and Borders · Decoloniality and Pedagogy:Research and Learning Within the Westernised University 04:00 pm Break 04:30 pm Plenary Session, Auditorium Tickets Free entry performances are subject to room capacity. To pre-book your seat send an email to info@portodesignbiennale.pt. — 26 e 27.11.2019, 09:30 am–05:00 pm Almeida Garrett Municipal Library – Auditorium, Port0 [free entry]