Designers Write 2023 | Design and Poverty| Groninger Museum
About this activity.
Symposium
What is the relationship between poverty and design? Architect/philosopher Tilde de Vylder and poet/art critic Maarten Buser engage in a conversation. The basis of their discussions are the essays they wrote about their perspectives on the relationship between design and poverty. In the second year of Designers Write, writing designers collectively explore the relationship between design and poverty. They do this by writing essays and engaging in discussions, facilitated by moderator Aynouk Tan.
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 13:30-15:30
The second edition of Designers Write 2023 takes place at the Groninger Museum on Saturday afternoon, November 4. Architect/philosopher Tilde de Vylder and poet/art critic Maarten Buser will discuss their views on poverty. Will you also come to listen and perhaps ask questions?
What is the relationship between poverty and design?
Design, industrialization, consumption, inequality, and poverty. These are concepts that are inseparably linked. But how exactly does that relationship work, and what can you do as a designer? The conversation will be in Dutch.
About Tilde de Vylder
Tilde de Vylder is a 25-year-old architect and philosopher who enjoys contemplating and writing about what it means to design things and how such design relates to the world. She is also a co-founder of atelier tilafolie and the safe(r)-space collective LEDA.collective.
About Maarten Buser
Maarten Buser (1991) is a poet and art critic. His debut collection 'Club Brancuzzi' was published by Koppernik in 2016. In 2018, he won one of the basic prizes of the Young Art Criticism Award. In November 2020, his non-fiction book 'Geertje van de Kamp in Japan, a Dutch Artist in Asia' (Publisher Waanders) was published. Additionally, he has translated various English-language poets into Dutch.
About Aynouk Tan
Aynouk Tan is a (fashion) journalist and program maker in the cultural sector, specializing in the relationship between appearance, identity, and politics. By analyzing appearance from an anthropological perspective, she dismantles colonial, neoliberal, and heteronormative structures and offers alternative perspectives. Tan is an advisor at the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) and a jury member for the Dutch Design Awards. She also advises in the field of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Designers Write.
Location.
Groninger Museum
Museumeiland 1
9711ME Groningen
www.designerswrite.org/