Thursday 14th April 2011 TRUST this breakfast
Time: 09.30-11.00
Location: Studio Zeta www.studiozetamilano.com
26, Via Fruili 20135 – Milano (Metroline 3, Station “Lodi T.I.B.B.”)
Language: English
Entree: Free
Seats 129 (so please be on time)
Introduction to the MA department of the design academy Gijs Bakker
Contextual introduction to the topic: Scott Burnham
Professionals attending the discussion: Alberto Meda, Lilet Breddels
MA head professor contextual design: Louise Schouwenberg
DAE student/ alumni: Tamar Shafrir
Moderator: Tim Vermeulen (Premsela)
During this “TRUST this breakfast” we will discuss and share ideas on the idea of TRUST. An abstract and complex given that is fundamentally imbedded at the core of our daily lives, trust is the reliance we have on ourselves in relation to our surroundings, both material and immaterial. The recent economic crisis can also be considered as a crisis in TRUST. But what does this mean for design? Themes like demographic change, environmentalism, or for instance ethics within working conditions, information distribution or food production ask for a re-examination of what TRUST means and the role of design can play.
“This is a crisis not just of credit. It is a crisis of trust.”
British former Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2009)
During this “TRUST this breakfast” we will discuss and share ideas on the idea of TRUST. An abstract and complex given that is fundamentally imbedded at the core of our daily lives, trust is the reliance we have on ourselves in relation to our surroundings, both material and immaterial. This relationship, which is crucial to the functioning of society, appears to have existed without any doubt. Yet today, the trust in intertwined systems of ‘the institutional’ is under pressure; economical principles that once supported it are collapsing. A rapidly changing, simultaneously shrinking and expanding world demands a reflection on the values it is based on. Recent developments in contemporary design are countering conventional attitudes. New approaches of consequential thinking in the field of design are surfacing. They address the complexity of the relational and adaptive systems of the social and political, ecological and economic challenges we are facing today. Current global tendencies can be considered as grand design challenges; themes like demographic change, environmentalism, or for instance ethics within working conditions or food production ask for a re-examination of the role of design in today’s society.
The Milan Breakfasts / Joost Grootens from Premsela, Dutch Platform for Des on Vimeo.
Trust Design is a project by Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, which explores the relationship between design and trust. Since 2009, Trust Design project director Scott Burnham has been researching and investigating design and its connections to trust in our products, services, and society. A key part of Trust Design's work has been a partnership with Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), who dedicated a trimester of their Master's Programme to the investigation of trust.
The work of the DAE students provides a revealing and vital hands-on approach to the evaluation, process and approach behind design and trust. The results of the Trust Design and Design Academy Eindhoven partnership will be featured throughout 2011 in a special series published by Volume Magazine, featuring the research, insights and outcomes resulting from DAE and the Trust Design project thus far. The Volume Trust series also serves as a vehicle for new work, research and insight, and this year the Milan design fair will offer a platform for public involvement and contribution to the exploration of trust.
On April 14th 2011, 09:30-11:00, this breakfast event will be held, sharing insights into design and trust. The session will allow participants to investigate and contribute to the work and provide their own insight into the subject matter to be used in future Volume issues.
This breakfast are organized by the Design Academy Eindhoven Masters and Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion.
Trust Design is a project which is researched by Scott Burnham and published in Volume magazine.