Design Perspectives Lecture - 24/11/10
Date posted: Friday 5 Nov 2010
Dr. Keith Russell, senior lecturer with the Faculty of Science and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, is visiting the Faculty of Design as part of the Design Perspectives Lecture Series.
Chocolate Bread, Sacred Rice: Continental Ways of Looking at Things - A Free Public Lecture by Dr. Keith Russell.
Date: Wednesday 24th November.
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm.
Venue: PA Building Lecture Theatre (PA 309) - Prahran Campus.
About the lecture:
"A thing found is a found thing; das ding an sich, the thing-in-itself, is altogether something else. We know chair before we know this chair. We know chair-ness and yet there is no such thing-in-itself, as a chair. Strange enough? Yes, but, an ordinary thing, a thing, as-itself, like this chair, is also something else. Especially if it is designed. Especially if it is French. And then, of other stuff, especially if it is a Juicy Salif. Especially if it is from the childhood of Ettore Sottsass. Especially if it is the thing, just there in the corner, on a shelf, in the laundry, awaiting its use. In designing, we are always seeing things in their potential and realised specialness. Let’s call this special way of seeing things, the Continental approach."
About the speaker:
Dr. Keith Russell is a communication and design philosopher. Over the last decade he has contributed to the growing international community of design research. As co-owner of the PhD Design email group, he has been involved with the development of post-graduate programs in design. His PhD is in the area of literary aesthetics, specifically the identity affects of genres and his Masters in Higher Education focuses on problem-based and e-learning in design.
A selection of his publications can be found at: http://knol.google.com/k/knol/Search?q=keith-russell
Examples of his experimental generative art can be found a:http://www.redbubble.com/people/affectmachine
Biography:http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school-old/design-communication-it/our_staff/russell_keith.html
For further information contact David Barker
Email: ddbarker@swin.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9214 6871
