Open Set provides a high-quality program, including symposiums and workshops that identifies the latest developments in design, emphasizes its relations with urgent social and political debates and also promotes cooperation with other cultural disciplines and sectors. Open Set is addressed to international designers practicing in the broad range of creative industry sectors, and also to artists and researchers while remaining open for non-designers who are interested in the research subject and can contribute from the perspective of other professional sectors.
Open Set was initiated 4 years ago and since then has been situated in the Netherlands. In 2016, with the gathered effort of international partners, the first edition of Open Set abroad will take place in Seoul, South Korea. This program will be the first of the two events of 2016, continuing in summer with the already established edition in Rotterdam. Each of the programs introduces a unique set of tutors and speakers, while still remaining connected by the annual theme of research.
Open Set Seoul Edition will investigate the changing concepts of memory as part of our personal and collective identities and how they are projected on images of the future. At the same time we investigate how this perception of the future alters our identities, our relations here and now. How these two concepts — memory and relations — are interconnected today and how design research and practice can help to think differently about their future scenario?
The theme addresses first of all the contemporary understanding of memory by itself — including thinking about information which presents our global memory, its contemporary digitalization and also its editing and mediation — as well as the concept of relations between people, institutions, systems and etc., which will be the prism for the discussion about past, present and future.
Tutors & Speakers
For this special edition of Open Set, we invited artists, designers and researchers from the Netherlands and South Korea to contribute with simultaneous workshops and lectures:
— Karen Lancel— Studio Lust— Annelys de Vet— Max Bruinsma— Koert van Mensvoort— Mediabus— Sulki & Min— Jinyeoul Jung — Peter Bilak— Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho
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