Tomás Saraceno | Investigations into the potentials of sky-life. Reykjavic Marathon, 2007 | © Tomás Saraceno
In recent years the individual has increasingly come into focus in the design discourse, whether in the sense of self-optimisation or co-production. Societies are not only figurations of individual existences; individuals configure societies with their practices, as Norbert Elias outlined in his figurational studies. The individual existence as a design question is equally promising and perilous.
a) Concerning the Gestaltung of a “new man” in classical modernism (in art, education, industrial science and eugenics)
Margarete Vöhringer, Berlin
b) Dasein is design. Eco-relational and mental design
Henk Oosterling, Rotterdam
c) Consumption as design
Wolfgang Ullrich, Leipzig / München
d) Design as self-optimisation
Andreas Bernard, Luneburg
Presentation Heinz Bude, Kassel