Wintersemester 2016/17
Betreuung:
Els Kuijpers, Jan van Toorn, Prof. Urs Lehni, Prof. Anja Dorn
Studierende/r:
Christina Vinke, Barbara Acevedo Strange, Tatjana Stürmer, Simon Knebl, Alejandra Janus, Christina Scheib, Igor Maier, Lydia Kähny, Immo Fattroth, Theresa Rößler, Markus Johnson, Rana Karan, Alper Kazokoglu, Marlene Oeken, Francesca Audretsch, Leonie Mühlen
Workshop with the Dutch author and curator Els Kuijpers and the graphic designer Jan van Toorn 31st October to 4th November 2016 (including the holiday, 1st November 2016) 10 am – 6 pm Cooperation between Communication Design and Exhibition Design/Scenography (Lehni/Dorn)
The workshop intends to offer participants theoretical and practical tools for an editorial approach of visual production. It concentrates on the diversity of means of the critical ‘journalistic’ tradition in media that works in the tension between realistic imitation and self-conscious artifice, i.e. between representation and presentation.
In reaction to the virtual realism of the spectacle dominating mainstream media, which prevents a meaningful use of word and image, the workshop deals with textual, visual and other practices that further more complex and argumentative forms of communication and foregrounds the constructed nature of messages in order to solicit the active interpretation of the viewer/reader. That is why the emphasis is on the potentialities and richness of the ‘reflexive’ or ‘dialogic method’, trying to recuperate the specificity of its projective and emancipatory practice. Taking the social workings of the message as a starting point the workshop focusses on the editing and making process, introducing a method which structures the collecting and editing of information in a way that lays the foundation for the staging, the mise-en-scene of fact and vision to the multiple sensory tracks of the visual.
Subject and course of action
To keep the discussion concentrated in a short workshop like this it seems useful to opt for:
1. a commonly shared field of interest: design and the culture industry; its institutions, products and activities as avenues and vehicles of information and symbolic exchange at the service of shared private and public interest.
2. a division of participants in groups of 3 to a maximum of 5 persons Each group formulating its own subject within the given arena.
Assignment
Create a visual essay in any media – print, electronic, spacial – on a subject in the above-mentioned field. Please present subject and point of view on it and bring visual documentation at the first session of the workshop.
Maximum of 20 participants
Applications until 21st October 2016 to aruschival@hfg-karlsruhe.de
Els Kuijpers and Jan van Toorn currently work together in editorial projects of visual communication that focus on the dialogic character of the message. They recently published the experimental publication And/or extended: on contradiction of the work of Jan van Toorn (nai010 publishers Rotterdam 2013) as the result of close collaboration between the author and the designer: the complex text with its many excursuses and digressions resembles Van Toorn’s visual project; the layered structure of the design follows Kuijpers’ literary undertaking. In order to bridge theory and practice of design [in thinking and making] they together conduct seminars and workshops on communicative design addressing the staging of messages by investigating media, strategies, method and language use of communication.
2016
Wintersemester
2016/17
Betreuung:
Els Kuijpers, Jan van Toorn, Prof. Urs Lehni, Prof. Anja Dorn
Studierende/r: