To mark the end of its 30th anniversary year, the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe will be hosting the symposium The Future of Gestaltung on February 9 and 10, 2023. Designed as an open discussion format, in addition to the members and guests of the HfG, the city’s public should also actively participate and enrich the numerous offerings in the form of roundtables, presentations, debates or pop-up events with their contributions and thought experiments.
In keeping with the title, the focus will be on the future of the university and its contribution to society. The aim is to question today’s artistic and design practice and to sketch out scenarios of collaboration and coexistence. The focus will be on the term “design”, which was used a good 100 years ago at German-speaking art colleges to emphasize the holistic claim of their own work. Under political slogans such as “Shaping the future “, it is once again in vogue today, since it applies to all areas of society, from education and the economy to administration, health care and the environment. What usually remains unclear, however, is who is actually in a position to shape this future.
Society is confronted with a variety of social, political, ecological and economic challenges. The symposium will address the role of the pioneering possibilities of art and design in this context, the special role of a university in this context and how the HfG can make use of its unique combination of art, theory and design in this situation.
February 09, 2023 // 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. // with subsequent get-together
February 10, 2023 // 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. // with panel discussion from 5.30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
For more information and program see https://hfg-karlsruhe.de/en/aktuelles/the-future-of-gestaltung/.
