Published: The Lancaster Care Charter, January 2019, Design Issues 35(1):73-77 Click here to read further
Very happy to be a part of the Gandhian Eco-Philosophy Fellowship by EPCO, MP Govt. Interacted with some amazing Gandhian thinkers and young researchers today, including the 89-year young Bhai ji KN Subbarao, and the poet Udayan Bajpai. Hope the next eight months to be a transformative learning experience.
Image Courtesy: EPCO. In September 2017, I got an opportunity to participate and present in ' Does Design Care...?,' a workshop at the Imagination Lancaster (Design Department of the LancasterUniversity, UK). As a bunch of interdisciplinary and multi-focus designers, we deliberated on the idea of care through/in Design. We revisited iconic Munich Charter and came up with a vision document, Lancaster Care Charter, which is now published in the latest issue of Design Issues by MIT Press. I thought of sharing the same with you.
Abstract In the fall of 1991 the Munich Design Charter was published in Design Issues. This charter was written as a design-led "call to arms" on the future nations and boundaries of Europe. The signatories of the Munich Design Charter saw the problem of Europe, at that time, as fundamentally a problem of form that should draw on the creativity and expertise of design. Likewise, the Does Design Care…? workshop held at Imagination , Lancaster University in the autumn of 2017 brought together a multidisciplinary group of people from 16 nations across 5 continents, who, at a critical moment in design discourse saw a problem with the future of Care. The Lancaster Care Charter has been written in response to the vital question "Does Design Care…?" and via a series of conversations, stimulated by a range of presentations that explored a range of provocations , insights, and more questions, provides answers for the contemporary context of Care. With nation and boundary now erased by the flow of Capital the Charter aims to address the complex and urgent challenges for Care as both the future possible and the responsibility of design. The Lancaster Care Charter presents a collective vision and sets out new pragmatic encounters for the design of Care and the care of Design. Read Further |
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