Edited by Mel Hogan and Andrea Zeffiro. For this special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, we are gathering contributions that address the idea of mobile trash.

The intention of this issue is to reconfigure the concepts of mobile and mobilities in relation to trash, by its various definitions and formations, from new materialism, feminism, media ecology, media archaeology, and queer frameworks.

We\'re especially interested in short pieces (2500 words) and creative interventions that explore mobile trash as pollution, fumes, compost, satellites, e-waste, toxins, bodies, drones, viruses, hacks, landfill, etc. We welcome pieces that poetically engage the politics of trash and speak to its borders, transitions, movements, materialities, shifts, contagions, ecologies, permutations, mutations, and invisible transferences.

The online issue goes live January 2016 and will be accompanied by a print-on-demand issue.

If interested, please send us a 300 word abstract to:
info@technotrash.org Include your name, personal URL, and title of submission.

TIMELINE
Deadline for abstracts: Nov 1, 2014.
We will let you know if your project is selected by Feb 1, 2015.
Final submissions due: Sept 1, 2015.
Issue goes live: January 1, 2016.

http://technotrash.org/cfp-mobile-trash-2016/

Projektil ist eine internationale Vorlesungsreihe mit Workshops an der Bauhaus- Universität, Weimar. Sie wurde 2007 von Studenten initiiert, um eine ausstehende Graphik-Design Professur auszugleichen.
Seitdem wird diese Veranstaltung jährlich angeboten und die Organisation unter den Studenten weitergereicht.

Neben Vorträgen von Persönlichkeiten aus verschiedenen kreativen Bereichen, werden auch mehrtägige Workshops für alle interessierten Studenten angeboten.

Die Veranstaltungsreihe möchte mit ihrem Programm Einblicke in künstlerische Arbeitsweisen und Denkprozesse geben. Dabei versteht sich Projektil gleichzeitig aber auch als eine Plattform des kreativen Austauschs, die Raum für Ideen und Inspiration bietet.

PROJEKTIL 2014 freut sich auf Mark Prendergast (UK), The Rodina (CZ), Geoffrey Lillemon (US), I Like Birds (DE), Lucky Dragons’ Sumi Ink Club (US), Masanao Hirayama (JP), Tobias Zielony (DE), Peter Puklus (HU), Kai von Rabenau - Mono.Kultur (DE), Jordy van den Nieuwendijk & Viktor Hachmang (NL)

Projektil 2014 – Vortrag & Workshop Jordy van den Nieuwendijk & Viktor Hachmang


Jordy van den Nieuwendijk

Cartoons und Graffiti inspirierten den jungen Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, Illustration in Rotterdam und später Grafik Design in Den Haag zu studieren. Mit der Beerdigung seines Alter Ego “Superoboturbo” schloss er die Hochschule ab und begann, in seinem heimischen Atelier Arbeiten ohne Farb- und Stilbeschränkungen anzufertigen. So sehr er klare Linien liebt, möchte er diese nicht zwischen kommerziellen Aufträgen und seiner eigenen Arbeit ziehen. Auftragsarbeiten inspirieren seine Gemälde und umgekehrt. Mittlerweile finden wir Jordys farbenfrohe Illustrationen voller charmanter Naivität in zahlreichen Magazinen und Ausstellungen.

Jordy lebt und arbeitet in Den Haag.

Viktor Hachmang

Viktor Hachmang ist ein Illustrator und Designer. In seiner Arbeit verschmelzen die Kantigkeit und elektrischen Linien des New Wave Grafik Designs, die verstrahlte Farbpalette der Psychedelia & die traditionelle Comic-Zeichenkunst der Ligne Claire. Um nur einige von Hachmang’s Auftraggebern zu nennen: The New York Times, ArtReview, The Fader, Diesel, Lacoste, Urban Outfitters… Er fokussiert sich außerdem auf persönliche Projekte, wie limitierte Grafik-Drucke und Experimente mit Keramik, Textilien, Schmuck & natürlich Comics. Seine Arbeiten sind regelmäßig in nationalen und internationalen Galerien zu finden.

Er lebt und arbeitet in Den Haag.

Vortrag:

Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2014, 20 Uhr

Wo:

Audimax
Steubenstraße 6-8
99423 Weimar

Workshops:

Freitag bis Sonntag, 4. bis 6.Juli 2014

Wo:

Marienstraße 1
99423 Weimar

Infos & Anmeldung:
www.projektil.org

Kontakt:
team@projektil.org
www.projektil.org
www.facebook.com/projektil

Captcha ist ein neues Designfestival – kreiert und organisiert von Studierenden der Fakultät für Gestaltung in Mannheim. Ihre Motivation liegt dabei in dem Wunsch ausgewählte Themen intensiver zu erforschen und sich mit Designern und anderen Hochschulen stärker zu vernetzen und auszutauschen. Die Premiere des Festivals ruft auf zur »Befreiung der Schrift«: traditionelle Formen und Ästhetiken von Schrift und Zeichen werden radikal neu gedacht und interpretiert. Als Befreier sind Gäste aus den Bereichen Design und Gestaltung eingeladen. Mit Workshops, einem Symposium und einer Ausstellung wird der Nachweis geführt, dass Schrift heute viel mehr ist, als nur ein Mittel zur Nachrichtenübermittlung.

Wann:
Vernissage: 
Samstag, 2. August, 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 3. – 9. August, 16 – 20 Uhr,

Eintritt frei

Vorträge:
 Montag, 4. August, 10 – 17 Uhr, danach Barbecue,
Eintritt frei, begrenzte Plätze, Anmeldung erforderlich

http://www.captcha-mannheim.de
Workshops: 
5. – 8. August 2014,
für Studenten, Anmeldung mit kleinem Portfolio erforderlich

Finissage:
Freitag, 8. August, 19 Uhr

Gäste:
Erich Brechbühl
Daniel Kuhnlein
Felix Pfäffli
… weitere werden noch bekannt gegeben

Wo:

Zeitraumexit
Hafenstrasse 68
68165 Mannheim

For the occasion of 14th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale die Venezia.

Rather than conducting a historical account of modern epoch in Turkey, presenting an exhaustive catalogue, or trying to capture its unique local attributes, “Places of Memory” attempts to explore the main theme of the biennial via perceptions and experiences.Rather than conducting a historical account of modern epoch in Turkey, presenting an exhaustive catalogue, or trying to capture its unique local attributes, “Places of Memory” attempts to explore the main theme of the biennial via perceptions and experiences.

The project idea departs from three areas of Istanbul: The first comprises Taksim, where I was born and grew up. Taksim is also an important square, with a constantly changing appearance because of partial and inconsistent interventions. The Atatürk Cultural Center, situated on the narrower end of the square, is a symbol of modern architecture in Turkey. My father, Hayati Tabanlıoğlu, was the architect. This first area spreads out across a wider zone, and continues downhill from the square to the coast, passes along the warehouses designed by Sedad Hakkı Eldem, an important representative of 20th century architecture in Turkey, reaching Salıpazarı harbor. Like many other areas in Istanbul, this area, too, is undergoing transformation. The GalataPort project (a master plan proposal, 2001) developed by us (Tabanlıoğlu Architects) for the area, and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, which we transformed from a warehouse into a museum (2004), were among projects that triggered change in this area. The second area is Bâb-ı Âli, where I spent my youth. Starting in Sirkeci, the area used to host the headquarters of important newspapers and printing houses in Turkey along two sides of the Cağaloğlu slope. I used to pass through this world every day since I studied in a high school in the same area. The final one is Büyükdere Boulevard and its environs. This area, once lined with fields and orchards, later with light industry buildings, today is in juxtaposition with the CBD, featuring high-rise buildings especially between Levent-Maslak axes that connect main transportation routes of the city.

A detailed discussion of these places that acted as thresholds during different stages of my life—or in a sense, my memory—seeded the first layers of the conceptual framework. Our focus in the exhibition is not necessarily on these places, but rather on the concept of place itself, incorporated with the subjective vision of every exhibitor in the team. The works interact with each other via different approaches based on different scales and mediums.

We chose not to write in advance the story that might emerge from this project. We will see the outcome together. This is a conscious decision that keeps us on edge, but one that also holds potentials.


Murat Tabanlıoğlu
Places of Memory. Hafiza Mekanlari. For the occasion of 14th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale die Venezia.

IKSV, 2014, 978-605-5275-15-0
EUR 29.00

At a time when human activity is threatening biodiversity and causing severe climate change, it becomes obvious that natural and artificial systems can no longer be conceived in isolation but only in relation to each other – or indeed as one. In order to develop the theme of Design Ecologies they invite a variety of disciplines to make contributions: full papers, exploratory papers, workshops, exhibitions and a doctoral consortium.

The Design Ecologies conference includes the following tracks:
Design and Approaches for Sustainability
Design as a Political Agent
Design and Sustainable Businesses
Design and Sustainable Technologies
Design and its Educations
Design and its Wild Cards

Important dates:
7 – 10 June 2015: Conference (Sunday – Wednesday)
1 December 2014: Submission system opens
7 January 2015: Submission deadline
20 March 2015: Author notification
20 April 2015: Submission of final versions


Mathilda Tham (Linnaeus University, Goldsmiths)
Håkan Edeholt (Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
Martin Ávila (Konstfack), and
Bo Westerlund (Konstfack)

Updates will be available on:
http://nordes.org/nordes2015
http://nordes.org/mailman/listinfo/call_nordes.org

Welcome are participants from all areas of research in PD, interested in exploring the role and position of ethnography and design anthropology in processes of participatory engagement and design. Especially they invite participants who are engaged in research through design, theoretical perspectives, and case studies relating to ethnography, design anthropology, and user research for 21st century challenges and/or digital technologies.

In the workshop we explore theoretical positionings and methodological approaches to ethnography and anthropology in PD. The following themes will be used to discuss relations between researchers and the Other, creating objects and contexts of design through design anthropologic approaches to societal challenges:
• Proximity versus Distance
• Understanding versus Emergence
• Empathy versus Critique
• Description versus Intervention
• Transdisciplinarity vs. Professional Boundaries

DEADLINES & SUBMISSION
21 July submission of position statements (2 pages)
28 July notification of acceptances
5 Aug registration for PDC2014

https://sites.google.com/site/pdcdesignanthro/home

On November 2013, The Swedish School of Planning organized an International Seminar on the theme of “Planning for Sustainable Urban Form”.

In an attempt to support the continuity of this meeting, the Swedish School of Planning is organizing the Second International Seminar on November 12th to 14th, 2014.

They invite scholars to submit abstracts on the following broad subjects:
1. Planning processes in changing governance networks
2. Urban form, agency and sustainable development

The deadline for submitting abstracts and registering is September 15th, 2014.
Abstracts should be sent to Abdellah.abarkan@bth.se.
Accepted abstracts will be notified by September 30th.

goo.gl/eZzdte

In a three day workshop, experts and PhD students from different European countries and disciplines will come together for an intensive exchange about strategies and specific possibilities of societal transformation towards more sustainable lifestyles. Through a dialogue between observers and analysts of the transformation on the one hand, and designers of the transformation on the other hand, the workshop promotes an intensive relationship between theory and praxis. The PhD Workshop therefore addresses different disciplines e.g. social, economic and cultural scientists, architects, product-designers, engineers. Best practice projects (e.g. living labs in Barcelona) will be presented and examined from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Since 2009 the Sustainable Summer School combines the discourses of sustainability and design, which are both posing the crucial questions of ‚What is a good life?‘ and ‚What do we have to do in order to achieve it?‘. Every year the event has attracted students from different fields as well as graduates, young professionals and experts from all over the world to come and experience the true meaning of sustainability while enhancing their international commitment.

http://www.sustainable-summer-school.org