#1 between: borders
#1 between: borders
Presentations by
John Palmesino and Florian Schneider
17 – 18 September 2010
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Five years after several hundreds of migrants managed to climb the fences that surround the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Mellila it is time to evaluate again the impact of the events of the end of September 2005. What then was coined as a "storm on fortress Europe" by the mainstream media might well have marked the beginning of a subtle redesign of the European outer borders.
John Palmesino and Florian Schneider, advising researchers Design at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), will discuss how in the presence – as well as in the absence – of a scandal, new forms of participation, neutralization and caretaking become the constitutive elements of a
border regime that operates beyond the patterns of inclusion and exclusion and how this matters for contemporary design practices.
BETWEEN is a new series of events at the JVE Design department. For each session two guests are invited to exchange thoughts and experiences about a certain problem and from different points of view, analyzing complex issues of redesigning parts of the world for the 21st century.
BETWEEN #1 starts on Friday, 17th September at 16:00 hrs at the JVE. The session will be followed on Saturday by a presentation of the new research projects in the Design department. Applicants for the projects are welcome to join an informal debate about the goals and methodologies of these projects.
If you are attending this debate, please register with Anne Vangronsveld at coordinator.events@janvaneyck.nl
Candidate researchers in the Design Department are invited to propose projects according to one of the new initiatives started by the department:
FORBIDDEN CITY. Strijp-S is an urban development plan that tries to transform the 66 acres of the former Philips factory in Eindhoven from a 'forbidden city' into a 'creative city with an unequalled character'. The project is a visual research into new divisions of labour that
emerge when heavy industries and mass production are replaced by what is coined as cognitive, immaterial or affective labour.
*LATENT STARE*. Exploring the practice, methods and messages of type-design, *Latent stare* proposes a gathering and study of selected typefaces and stories, from the 1900s onwards – when technology had accelerated and begun to affect the production and distribution of new types. The selected material is affiliated to a political, social or spiritual set of beliefs that feed back into the typefaces’ creation, design and/or use.
NEUTRALITY_Polity and Space in the Post-Eurocentric City researches the modalities and substances that contemporary practices of neutrality give rise to and contribute in sustaining. The project aims at outlining innovative paths towards design agency and creativity and analyses forms of transformation and control of contemporary space.
OPEN VIDEO HTML5 is supposed to open a new chapter in web design and web-based publishing. Open Video will research into past and present open-source video implementations to develop an independent platform that explores the specific potentials of self-authored and self-managed, open-source video publishing initiatives against the backdrop of the overwhelming dominance of mass media like content providers.
REMOTE SENSING_Biopolitical Imagery investigates how new remote-sensing technologies are shaping and carving contemporary spaces of operation and sovereignty, and focuses on the agency that these new technologies elicit and entail. The project singles out a series of contemporary
situations and traces the complex links and exchanges between the production of new images through remote sensing and the outline of new legal and governmental issues.
For more information, see:
http://www.janvaneyck.nl