Graphic design, free verse and protest

One of the origins of graphic design lies in the visual or concrete poetry (free verses) of the late 19th century. Later, the way words were used in Futurism, Dadaism or the Vienna Group even influenced advertising. But can poetry also reach propaganda? We will look for new forms of poetry and its relationship to the political. We will also deal with poetry and handicaps. We will concentrate on books about "the crisis" and analyse their titles. Which ones promise a different economy and society, with the dream to do less, to slowdown, to be sustainable?

And we will produce visual poems! Poems in braille, for example. But we will also learn to make animated poems with adobe photoshop …

In the crisis we will communicate through e-mail, zoom or rocket. We will use the owncloud for presentations and exchange. The possibility of a blog will be consider. Students should use for research the online offers of the angewandte university library.

owncloud > 2020S – S03114 – Graphic design, radical democracy or-and the commons

 

 

The course is practical. In the crisis: online-presence through zoom or rocket meetings (min. 2 of 4, incl. presentations and talks by the students), submission of the assignments through e-mail or owncloud (min. 2 of 4) are required for its successful completion. There are no tests.

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Bertrand Russell, In praise of idleness. New York 1935 (WW Norton & Company).

Karl Polayni, The great Tranformation. New York/Toronto 1944 (Farrar & Rinehart).

Victor Papanek, Design for the real world. New York 1971 (Pantheon Books).

Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality. New York 1973 (Harper and Row)

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, Small is beautifull. London 1973 (Blond & Briggs).

Erich Fromm, To have or to be. New York 1976 (Harper & Row).

Mario Payeras, El mundo como flor e invento, Mexico 1987 (Joan Boldó i Climent)

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Ilija Trojanow, Der überflüssige Mensch. Salzburg 2013 (Residenz Verlag).

Alberto Acosta, El buen vivir. Barcelona 2013 (Icaria Editorial).

Kate Raworth, Doughnut economics. New York 2017 (Random House).

Hartmut Rosa, Unverfügbarkeit. Salzburg 2018 (Residenz Verlag).

Matthias Schmelzer / Andrea Vetter, Degrowth. Hamburg 2019 (Junius Verlag).