Cumulus Conferences
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Meeting Helsinki, Finland - May 2012
Next meeting during Northern World Mandate conference in Helsinki, Finland.
Provisionally May 24, 2012.
9.30 - 11.30 (possibly also 12.00 -14.00)
Water is the single most important topic for a sustainable future. Water & Design offer a wide variety of fascinating aesthetic, functional, social, methodological topics to designers and design-educators. Cumulus Global Water Working Group was founded at the Shanghai conference and since held meetings in Paris and Denver. Helsinki is our 3rd official meeting.
- Resume of outcome from the group’s work Paris (headed by Georg C Bertsch) and Denver (headed by Peter Stebbing and Ursula Tischner). Overview on some new literature.
- Short presentations by participants (ca. 10 min each), open to every participant.
- Report on running projects at our Universities or in other contexts. Interchange of methodologies, results and insights
- The working group will have a look at the results of two Frankfurt projects and discuss them in front of the posters of the show (see below) for approx. 30 minutes.
- Water & Design as curricular topic: undergrad, grad, post grad and phd topics in water & design.
- Brainstorming for next steps.
Contact: Prof. Georg-Christof Bertsch +49 (0) 171-7001645 • bertsch@hfg-offenbach.de
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Meeting in Denver, USA - Sept 2011
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Thursday, 30 June 2011
Global Water Working Group
The Global Water Working Group of Cumulus has been founded at the Shanghai Conference in 2010.
Water is by far too complex a phenomenon to be dealt with from only an economic perspective. To address the topic solely through the sustainability perspective might repel designers who are concerned exclusively with what they consider creating beauty - which is still one of the strongest motifs to become a designer. There is nevertheless a multitude of possible entries to that topic which can help designers get involved in order to develop
1. An attitude towards water at all
2. Start perceiving water a a cornerstone to a sustainable future
3. Draw an outline of topics, projects and products waiting for smart design-solutions.
Contact person: Prof. Georg-Christof Bertsch, HfG Offenbach, Germany mailto: bertsch@hfg-offenbach.de
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Monday, 02 May 2011
Kick-off meeting Global Water WG
Paris, France May 2011