Detailed Programme 23.07.09 ExperimentaDesign 09 September — 08 November 2009 ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 2 ExperimentaDesign is an international Biennale Goals — dedicated to design, architecture and creativity. Positioning itself as a forward-thinking, dynamic 1. To focus on innovation and excellence in the platform, EXD fosters and analyses contemporary Biennale’s programme, bringing economic agents culture through discussion and reflection. It and creative practitioners closer; is a springboard for up-and-coming talent and 2. To invest strongly in the Biennale’s core programme experimentation in disciplines across the creative events, with a view to consolidating its international spectrum, showcasing original projects and ideas standing in the field of design and architecture; in different formats, from exhibitions to urban 3. To strengthen and expand the network of interventions, debates and lectures. With a focus on international collaborations; people and ideas, the Biennale’s programme is designed 4. To develop projects on local (Lisbon), national to provide insight and incentive both to a specialised (Portugal) and transnational issues; audience and the public at large, disseminating 5. To widen the Education Service’s scope of action by information and fuelling debate. EXD programs diversifying its activities; possibilities, crosses paths, questions and experiments, 6. To take on a proactive role championing social challenging participants and audiences. cohesion and responsibility; 7. To give priority to the production of audio-visual Taking place in Lisbon (since 1999) and for the first materials especially for broadcasting and web, in time (in 2008) in Amsterdam the Biennale engages tandem publishing catalogues; a worldwide network of agents in various fields, 8. To introduce the Warm-Up, a curtain raiser launches promoting innovation and creativity as driving forces the Biennale one year in advance, which strengthen for sustainable development at all levels. For its 10th its impact with both the audience and the media; anniversary edition, EXD introduced the Warm-Up, a 9. To build a legacy for the city of Lisbon, its residents curtain raiser that launched the theme a year in advance and Portugal. with a major exhibition and lecture by Swiss architect ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Zumthor. Themed “It’s About Time”, EXD’09 looks at time as material, resource and challenge: time to take action, time to collaborate, time to make, time to reflect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 3 Theme - It’s about time — How are we thinking about time these days? As a shifting notions of time and urgency. How can creative subjective experience or a socially defined concept? practitioners reconcile the ever-increasing speed of life As luxury commodity or basic market currency? In a with the need for reflection? Can designers develop a sense, everything in our lives is about time; it is the one new notion of ‘time-based design’? How do we deal with resource that no individual or activity can do without. the social dimensions of time? Social processes are fast We value time, we save it, we manage it, we fight it. becoming a main ingredient in product development, Ultimately, time is never enough, so we are forced from open-source R&D to community-based production to prioritise. Assess, compare, choose, relegate. As and project implementation. Keywords here are contemporary life accelerates non-stop, communication intimately connected to notions of time and urgency: is real-time, decisions are split-second and problem improvisation, networking, sharing and parallel solving relies on quick fixes rather than sustainable development. It’s all about time. solutions. In a world on the brink of environmental and financial collapse, there is a pressing need to take For further reading on the theme and an essay by Max action – but do we think before we act? It’s about time Bruinsma visit: to concentrate on mature reflection and persistent http://experimentadesign.pt/2009/en/01-01-00.html change. ExperimentaDesign proposes to translate the ------------------------------------------------------------------------ double meaning of its 2009 theme into a programme: to think about the way we use time in design. EXD looks at the various ways in which time plays a role in creative disciplines, and how they in turn can address ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 5 Conferences, debates and series Exhibitions 1. Lisbon Conferences 1. Quick, Quick, Slow 2. Open talks 2. Lapse In time 3. Luanda: Emergent Megalopolis 3. Pace of Design 4. State of the Arts 4. Timeless 5. Designmatography V Special Projects Parallel Events 1. Jardim de Santos 54 events 2. Action For Age 3. Stop & Think 4. Share 5. Luanda: Anatomy of Speed 6. Time Sequences 7. Efeito D 8. Phaidon Design Classic * Lounging Space has its own programme EXD’09 71 EVENTS 258 PARTICIPANTS 23 COUNTRIES ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 6 Open Talks — Fostering participation and critical thinking, the Open Talks follow the exciting format of television debates. A Talk Host chooses the topic, invites the guests and moderates the discussion between them and the Agents Provocateurs, a mix of creative practitioners, journalists and academics. The floor is then opened to comments from the audience. The Open Talks are a favourite Date: 09 – 13 September among opinion makers, professionals and students, Time: 11:00 – 13:00 giving them an opportunity to engage well-known Venue: Mercado de Santa Clara international agents in a lively exchange on vital issues Campo de Santa Clara, 1100-470 Lisboa of contemporary culture and creative work. Tram 28, Bus 12, 34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 7 Open Talk 1 Open Talk 2 9 Sept 10 Sept — — Fiction design World 2.0 Talk Host — Nuno Artur Silva (PT) Talk Host — Ravi Naidoo (ZA) Guests — Filipe Homem Fonseca (PT); João Lopes Guests — Gaby de Abreu (ZA); Nathan Reddy (ZA); (PT); Maria João Cruz (PT); Pedro Gadanho (PT) Rui Esteves (ZA) Text from Nuno Artur Silva available soon A better future, by design: The considerable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ environmental cost of development, and the attendant climate change consequences, means that in order to save the planet we have to almost re-design it from the ground up – and this will affect the buildings we inhabit, the cars we drive and the industrial processes our companies engage in. In fact, over the next 40 years, we will have to develop a World 2.0 – a fundamental over-arching movement to reshape the world– and this would place design as one of the most important disciplines in business and academia – coupled with a green consciousness. And so, innovators are in hurry to fast-track World 2.0. Witness the advent of the X-Prize – which has put up a $10 million award to the innovator that develops the first commercially viable 100 mile per gallon car! Incremental change is not good enough for these guys – they want radical, frame-breaking change that could change the course of the planet over the next few decades. Ravi Naidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © Rui Gaudêncio ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 8 Open Talk 3 11 Sept — But is it design? Talk Host: Paola Antonelli (IT) Guests: Kevin Slavin (US); Neri Oxman (US); Oron Catts (FI) Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They have the ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, and to convert them into objects and ideas that people can actually understand and use. What they produce can sometimes resemble conceptual art or scientific experiment, but what all their endeavors share is a passion for interdisciplinarity and innovation, as well as an attention to the common good that makes them into crucial actors in the future of society and of the world. Paola Antonelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ExperimentaDesign Lisboa / 09 September — 08 November 2009 9 Open Talk 4 12 Sept — Back to the future of design Talk Host: Alice Rawsthorn (GB) The current wave of change could herald another golden Guests: Ben Fry (US); Joseph Grima (US); Lindy Roy era for design, but a new type of design, one which is (ZA/US) more fluid, collaborative and inclusive. This present designers and architects with formidable challenges We are living at a time of unprecedented change. and exciting opportunities. They can help to change Advances in science and technology are accelerating. the way we see the world and how we navigate it, The environmental crisis is deepening. The social and not only by fulfilling their traditional role of creating political systems that ran society in the 20th century are objects, structures and images, but by applying the breaking down. Our lives are dramatically different to creative principles of design thinking to restructuring ten years ago, and will be as different again ten years organisations, reinventing patterns of behaviour and from now. Some of these changes are exhilarating. tackling the urgent social and political problems of our Others are confusing