INTELLIGENT APPLICATION CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH 2006
11.30 Arrival & Registration
12.00 Lunch (by invitation only)
12.45 Prof Stuart Bartholomew : Introduction to the Institute
13.00 Prof George Burden : Introduction to the Symposium
13.20 Prof Uwe Bruckner : The Art of Taming the Instant
14.20 Prof Ron Nabarro : Intelligent Design
15.20 Laurie Reynolds : Alternative Wheels
15.50 Joyce Palmer : Design Education. Design Industry
16.15 The Design Council : The Future
16.55 Mary Mullin : Past Masters, Future Mentors
17.35 Forum : Intelligent Application
18.00 Canapes & Wine
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Please see below for more information on our RADICAL TALKS
Professor George Burden
The host of the Symposium, Professor George Burden will be the compere for the symposium.
Uwe Bruckner
Form follows content. Communicating content in a fascinating way, generating atmospheres, producing spatial installations which result from a dramaturgy, taking the visitors on a trip through a narrative along a story-telling thread needs scenographic design. The alliance between architecture and exhibition design, the relationship between the exhibition and its content and the dialogue between content and the recipient, this is the crux of scenographic design, reaching out from the quality of an entire piece of art. Design and content become one. The scenographic ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ (entire piece of art) has the aim to create new compositions, by a harmonic relationship between form and content, and the unprejudiced experiment with the elements space, graphics, light and media.
Ron Nabarro
There are many international awards for design, covering all aspects of the design process. With this in mind, should the best of the best design be an intelligent one? And if so, what are the criteria for intelligent design? Is intelligent design time related? Does intelligent design outdate? Do we consider a design to be an intelligent one even if it has some deficiency? – Intriguing questions that call for further exploration and convincing answers.
Laurie Reynolds
Petrol at £2 a gallon, 10 million cars on the road, global warming, SUV’s, heavy goods vehicles, where is society going with its transport systems? Public transport is underfunded and inflexible, and traffic congestion is becoming a major threat to quality of life. STOP. Rethink this situation. We need a new personal transport concept. What are the requirements for a 21st Century city vehicle? And is there a role for design? Laurie will share his experience with the QPOD and the Unique Motor Company. He will outline the reaction he has had from the public to the idea of a new form of transport. He will shape the potential for this transport.
Joyce Palmer
Design has traditionally been seen as a profession born of idealistic notions about the quality of human-made objects and environments, but it has been losing a sense of purpose to the prevailing values of global commercialisation. Functionalism, universality and timelessness, once the hallmarks of modern design, no longer appear to be applicable. Social injustices, economic recession, diminishing resources have encouraged and, in many areas, accelerated a regression towards a comfortable nostalgia rather than a radically new response. All of these factors combine to create confusion, in particular for students entering the world of design and the creative arts. In spite of these issues, designers come from all over the world to the UK to study and to practise in a creative climate which has been described as “the design studio of the world.” What makes the UK such a fertile environment for creativity?
The Design Council
This talk will focus on the relationship between education and the industry, including the initiatives currently underway as well as future initiatives.
Mary Mullin
Should the thoughts of educators, designers and those who rely on their services always be looking forward? The Muses, mythology, legend, folklore have been recognised as legitimate sources of inspiration for modern artists, playwrights, actors, film and television producers. Shakespeare in modern dress: 18th Century opera in a 20th Century dress: if such re-takes can raise questions for the 21st Century can the mere one hundred or less years of an organised design movement in the United Kingdominspire those striving to ensure that the designers of tomorrow will serve our economic, social and cultural needs. Can we plunder the ideas of the acknowledged Past Masters for pointers for the future?