Invitation: the first TRADERS Summer School

MAD-faculty & Design Academy Eindhoven would like to invite you to participate in the first Summer School of the TRADERS project (European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, www.tr-aders.eu), which will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of October of 2014 in the cities of Hasselt and Genk (BE). It will be organized by the research groups of MAD-faculty / LUCA School of Arts and of Design Academy Eindhoven / Readership City and Countryside, in collaboration with the TRADERS partners (i.e. Chalmers/Department of Architecture; RCA/School of Architecture; University of Gothenburg/HDK and KU Leuven/Planning and Development and the Architecture and Culture Theory research units).

Social, economic and environmental changes ask for a rethinking and repositioning of designers and artists in society. In this line of thought, the TRADERS project questions how designers and artists can engage people to participate in the debate about and the construction of public space. The project also aims to develop tools for training future art and design practitioners and researchers in doing so. This Summer School attempts to take a first step in investigating this question, by exploring the power relations involved in working in participatory ways in public space. A series of workshops will embark in creating approaches and tools for (training) artists and designers in dealing with power relations in participatory set-ups.

Please find all information on the summer school, the day-to-day program and admission here: TRADERS Summerschool October 2014