Warming up to the Pluriverse #4: On avoiding assumptions

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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