Hvilket ansvar har egentlig designeren og faget i møtet med demokratiet? Og hvilke muligheter ligger der? Møt Ingrid, Azza, Benjamin og få et innblikk i deres ulike designfaglige praksiser relatert til demokratiet. Kvelden modereres av professor i grafisk design, Johanna Lewengard. Hjertelig velkommen!

Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
Strømgaten 6, 5015 Bergen,

PROGRAM
18.00–20.00

INGRID RUNDBERG (NO/SE)

Saker som kan være sant: en introduksjon

Things that might be true: an introduction

Ingrid Rundberg is a visual communication designer and a PhD candidate at the Department of Design, University of Bergen. In her practice, she explores how visual communication can contribute to political dialogue through public engagement, participation, installations, and publishing.

AZZA RAJHI (TN/FR)

Nyliberalt demokrati: Hva er designerens ansvar?

Neoliberal democracy: What are the designers responsibilities?

Azza is a researcher and independent designer. Her research explores the role of design in democracy and public participation. The reflection took place within a particular local context of a post-revolutionary Tunisian democracy and the construction of a neoliberal order involving external forces. Her research calls for design to be re-politicised through a practice that draws on local political imagination and cultural resources, and aware of power dynamics and the different systems of oppression. In her practice, she uses participatory and collaborative methods to support public institutions in their process of transformation, recognising the knowledge, imagination and wisdom of communities.

BENJAMIN HICKETHIER (NO/DE)

Hvordan kan designere utvide muligheter for deltagelse?

How can the designer expand possibilities of participation?

Benjamin Hickethier (he/him): born in Westberlin, studied in Berlin, the UK and the Netherlands, based in Stavanger/Norway. In his practice, Benjamin is investigating potentials of critical visual communication, publishing, collaboration and self-initiated projects. As an independent graphic designer/artist* he is working on commission from, and in collaboration with, regional and international cultural organisations, social initiatives and public institutions, as well as with cultural and social workers/producers and other people.

*while questioning terms and categories like these.

Benjamin is also running the risograph press &soWalter (usw.), co-founded the Norwegian Riso Association with Jessica Williams and Anki Stølan. Together with Arild Rein, he publishes books as the small press publisher Villhund. His studio is part of the culture worker coop Consulatet, and he is one of the initiatiors of Byverksted 🌴 a citizen-led initiative for bottom-up urbanist strategies & practice, struggling for expanding democratic participation.

JOHANNA LEWENGARD (SE)

Moderator

Johanna Lewengard (b. 1974) is a communication designer and professor based in Stockholm. She has been working for over 20 years with people, companies and organizations that aim to expand value through visual communication, taking on complex questions of inclusive public outreach as well as long term building of trust for high-end brands and services. Her body of work is characterized by a wide range of craft-based as well as strategic skills, including experiences of creative leadership and design-led research.

Stemmedepartementet er et konsept utviklet i det kunstneriske forsknings- og PhD prosjektet Ting som kan være sant av Ingrid Rundberg ved Institutt for design, Universitetet i Bergen. I prosjektet undersøker hun hvordan visuell kommunikasjonsdesign kan brukes for å tilnærme seg politikk og vekke politisk introspeksjon. Disse foredragene inngår i en serie arrangement (foredrag, lanseringsfest, workshop og utstilling) på Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek og Bergen Storsenter fra tirsdag 5. mars til fredag 8. mars, i regi av Stemmedepartementet.