Workshop Supported by the SDN grant 2021

«When language begins to break down a little bit, it becomes exciting and communicates in nearly the simplest way that it can function: you are forced to be aware of the sounds and the poetic parts of words».

New complex challenges and ideological shifts are shaking the very foundations of our society. Despite living in a highly informed and hyperconnected world, alienation and polarisation are evident in society. Digital media and communication tools are mostly perceived as progressive but they contribute to communication becoming increasingly abstract.

The SDN supports the dissemination and publication of research and other efforts by up and coming researchers and PhD candidates at Swiss Art and Design Universities. This can be done through workshops and various public formats. 

How can one as a graphic designer, shift and relearn understandings of visual knowledge towards the social political context each of us is living in? And can this eventually lead to a more inclusive, co-existing, community-based and social-political reflective praxis?

FUTURESS’ new study program exposing coded inequalities and reimagining technologies for better, brighter, and more just futures!

The podcast that explores design as planetary praxis. In each episode Michaela Büsse speaks to artists, filmmakers, designer, architects or researchers whose practice explores entanglements between society, technology and environment. Together they discuss how histories, geographies and politics shape practices and how, in return, these practices shape our being in the world.

The Swiss Design Network sees one of its roles as a supporting body for promising design researchers not only in connecting them but also in financially supporting them to publish their research or efforts through workshops and other public formats

Workshop Grant Recipient