Fans of the work by Otto Neurath, here’s a competition that might interest you:
The magazine ARCH+ and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation announce the competition Out of Balance – Kritik der Gegenwart. Information Design after Otto Neurath
The competition is directed towards
* Members of the design disciplines like: architecture, urban and regional planning, graphic design, product design and media design, cartography, photography, film, visual arts
* Scientists in the disciplines: art and cultural studies, art education, information sciences and communica- tion studies, social sciences, economics, environmental and geoscience
* Students in both areas.
Find project partners online, starting August 15, 2012 for initiating corpo- ration between designers and scientists in interdisciplinary teams.
Inscription: August 15 – November 12, 2012 Submission of the works by January 31, 2013 Publication and exhibition: summer 2013 exhibition in “Haus der Kulturen der Welt”, Berlin
Prize money: 20,000 Euro
The topic
People are born into socio-spatial circumstances – their chances in life vary in the extreme. In the interest of social integration and in accordance with democracy’s postulate of equality, modern societies embody the promise of an equalization of living circumstances. This is a guarantee for the po- litical stability of a community. At the same time, starting with the finan- cial markets, a system of organized irresponsibility has spread that not only exacerbates social differences, but also consciously exploits them for private advantages. We live in a time that must be newly surveyed – in soci- al terms and as the basis for a new societal consensus. Coming back to “re- althings” is the precondition for this.
On the basis of empirical material, data, and facts, visualizations of societal matters should be developed that cast light on the current problems of increasing social inequality, disadvantage, and exclusion. Possible the- matic fields include:
* Urban processes/spatial transformations like urbanization, segregation, deterioration into slums, gentrification, pollution, etc.
* Global streams of financial capital, goods and raw materials, the outsour- cing of production, human migratory movements, etc.
The task of the competition takes up the thread of the picture-pedagogicalwork of Otto Neurath. With his method of pictorial statistics, he developed effective forms of visually preparing data and implementing them in informa- tional graphics that make it easier to grasp societal conditions and proces- ses.
See announcement in detail in German and English, information about jury and procedure
www.archplus.net/outofbalance.
www.bauhaus-dessau.de/informationdesign.