In this fourth talk, Wong & Krier speak with architectural researcher Kornelia Dimitrova and social designer Bernhard Lenger, co-founders of Foundation We are, a collective of nine creative minds and makers that functions both as a playground for their different individual practices, and as a joint design consulting agency aiming to transform social and legal systems. How to keep your design practice close to the ground? Can we still have hope for Europe? And what is the similarity between a personal burn-out and climate change? Tune in to find out.
References
- Foundation We Are
foundationweare.org/ - Creative Industries Fund NL talent page, Bernhard Lenger
talent.stimuleringsfonds.nl/studio_bernhard_lenger - World Design Embassies
www.worlddesignembassies.com/embassies/water-2/ - Waterdier (trans. water animal)
www.waterdier.nl/ - This is Ecocide
www.thisisecocide.org/ - Studio Kornelia Dimitrova
www.kodimitrova.com/info.html - Oase Journal, Issue 107 (forthcoming 2020)
www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues - Hannah van Luttervelt
www.hannahvanluttervelt.nl - Letter to Europe
www.instagram.com/p/B8JAyEjlvBx/?u…ig_web_copy_link - Full letter to Europe recording
User-670828571 – Letter-to-europe - Sarah Wiener, Austrian politician
www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/19767…H_WIENER/home - Bulgaria protests, begun on July 9 2020 (timeline of the first 100 days)
www.svobodnaevropa.bg/a/30896267.html - Bivol (Investigative Journalism)
bivol.bg/ - Radio Svobodna Evropa / Radio Free Europe (Daily News)
www.svobodnaevropa.bg/ - Ibiza Scandal
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/…-does-it-matter - Maxime Benvenuto
maximebenvenuto.com/ - Speculative scenarios for mental health institution GGze, Eindhoven
www.tue.nl/en/research/researc…ggze-de-grote-beek/ - Reporting from the intersection of mental health and sustainable development
www.archined.nl/2020/12/reporting…able-development/ - “Social Design for Guenine Inclusivity” seminar, The Social Design Lobby
ddw.nl/en/programme/4529/soc…d-genuine-inclusivity - Kaylee Rosalina
kayleerosalina.nl/ - Social Design Showdown
www.socialdesign.nu/ - Hillary Cottam, Participle collective
www.participle.net/ - Georges Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f…an-elephant/ - Empathic research
pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/port…2543_9205_11_PB.pdf - Bas Raaijmakers (STBDY) on empathic conversations
www.stby.eu/2017/02/03/empathic-conversations-2/
Manzini Ezio. Design, when everybody designs. An introduction to design for social innovation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015.
mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-whe…verybody-designs - Renée Frissen, Open Embassy
www.openembassy.nl/en/about-us-2/ - Uncut bonus track reference
- Anne Ligtenberg, BNO
www.bno.nl/partners/anne-ligtenberg-19912 - Kiki van Eyck
kikiandjoost.com/ - Not discussed in detail in this take, but linked:
- Social Design Lobby interview archive
www.thesocialdesignlobby.com - The Moral Lab
www.kodimitrova.com/moral-lab.html - Burn-out. Exhaustion on a planetary scale, a research led by Marina Otero Verzier at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2019).
research-development.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/…ale - McPHIE, J. Mental health and wellbeing in the anthropocene : a posthuman inquiry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811333255
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