The Public Role of Design
Seminar
Seminar: The Public Role of Design ADAPT-r project event @ RMIT Europe
Project Team: Cecilia De Marinis, Dorotea Ottaviani, Alice Buoli, Sigrid Ehrmann, and Marta Fernandez.
Year: 2016
Place and Institution: RMIT Europe, Barcelona, SP.
What is the role of the creative practitioner in society?
What are the related responsibilities? How is the creative practitioner’s role perceived and recognized within the public realm?
The Adapt-r Day offered insights into the public voices and roles of practitioners across Europe, revealing the diversity of practices and multiple voices in the contemporary city.
The public voice is the medium used by practitioners to express and reveal their specificity, role, and position within society. It is an authentic unique voice and the language the practitioners use to communicate and articulate their tacit knowledge.
Such a voice resonates in different dimensions of practice: the design process itself, the way of engaging with and guiding transformation processes and bringing about social changes.
Some questions were provided to trigger reflection and debate in relation to the topic: What is the role of the creative practitioner within society? What are the related responsibilities? How is the creative practitioner’s role perceived and recognized within the public realm? Why is it important for practitioners to reflect on their public role?
