Design and Crisis. Reflections on the HfG Ulm from the Current Context

Title: Design and Crisis. Reflections on the HfG Ulm from the Current Context
Speaker: Gui Bonsiepe, industrial designer, educator and author

Profile
Born in Germany. He studied at the department of Information Design at the HfG Ulm before joining the staff of the school, teaching and working in the field of research and ​​development there until its closure in 1968. He then spent some time in Latin America, assisting government institutions in Chile, Argentina and Brazil in matters of industrial policy.

In the late 1980s he worked at a software company in California, where he familiarized himself with digital technology. From 1993 to 2003 he held the first chair in Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. He currently lives and works in Brazil and Argentina.

Among his publications include: Teoria e pratica del disegno industriale (1975), Diseño Industrial, tecnología y dependencia (1978), A ‘Tecnologia’ da Tecnologia (1978), Dall’oggetto all’interfaccia (1995), Interface – An Approach to Design (1999), Historia del Diseño en América Latina y el Caribe (2008), Entwurfskultur und Gesellschaft (2009), Design, Cultura e Sociedade (2011) and Diseño y Crisis (in preparation).

Organized by: DHUB

Venue: Auditorium, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Time: 7.30 p.m.

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