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newsletter quarterly bulletin of the International Council of Design |
July 2024 | |||||||||
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ICoD EventsThe International Council of Design is pleased to announce that the 30 General Assembly (30GA) will be held on 19 October 2024 in tandem with the TASA-ICoD International Conference on Evolving Design Practice and Education Curricula from 16—18 October 2024, in Qingdao (China). The events will be hosted by the Tsinghua (Qingdao) Academy of Arts and Science Innovation Research (TASA), a research campus of ICoD Member Tsinghua University. |
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PublicationKate Crawford’s graphic design installation Anatomy of an AI System won the Design of the Year 2019 at The Design Museum in London. The work is an anatomical map of human labour, data and planetary resources based on interactions with the voice assistant Amazon Echo. Crawford's book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021) furthers this analysis to unveil the hidden costs of artificial intelligence, giving a material and political perspective on how AI centralises power and depletes the planet. |
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Design professionalismIs doing great design work and organising to get paid fairly possible? Many designers find themselves alienated, caught in the trap of working overtime for lower and lower compensation to make a “good portfolio piece”. Current labour laws [for creatives] do not make it easy for freelancers to unionise. Even if they did, says illustrator and researcher Julien Posture, "the question would be: to bargain with whom? The list of their clients is virtually endless.” The way out of the trap might be about what former ICoD Board Member and Advocacy Liaison for the Graphic Artist Guild, Rebecca Blake, suggests: exchanging the cult of the individual for large collective organising, worker-driven structures and knowledge-sharing. |
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ICoD Platform MeetingThis October, conducted exceptionally as the ICoD Platform Meeting 2024, ICoD Members are invited to participate in the inaugural TASA-ICoD International Conference on Evolving Design Practice and Education Curricula from 16–18 October 2024. With the theme: deep time designing, this collaborative conference gathers design practitioners, educators, cultural theorists and futurists to expand how we think about the time scales and cultures of design in terms of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years. Topics for this year are An alternative history of design: Deep Time, Evolving standards and ethics, Expanding design discourse and Reshaping the design discourse and curriculum. The Conference will showcase keynote speeches, panel debates, and curated presentations, fostering ample opportunities for engagement and interaction. |
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International Design Day recapIs design kind enough? How does kind design address accessibility issues? What participatory and care models help make designing kinder for all? |
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Sustainable designWhat if the mountains of clothing waste can be transformed into biocompatible matter? Combatting the endless problem of fast fashion, The Biomimicry Institute's project—called Design for Decomposition is exploring new processes to help break down existing fabrics in more planet-friendly ways.
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New MemberICoD is pleased to welcome new Member AIGA San Diego Tijuana. The San Diego chapter of AIGA, the professional organisation for design, has been a dynamic contributor to the local creative community since 1987. Their local events provide educational, career enhancement and social opportunities for professional designers, educators, students and design enthusiasts in various fields including graphic design, UX design, photography, illustration, web development and more. |
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Copycat designHow can design authenticity survive in a world of reproductions? The facts of origin and ownership of design styles are getting muddied by the capacities offered by new technologies: "This shift from making to overseeing is nowhere more true than in the use of AI image generators — or, as anthropologist Julien Posture calls them, illustration without illustrators." ICoD has written in the past about copycat designing (see link below), and we wanted to share this new take on the issue. |
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