[WELTRAUM IV] Speculative City
Design will have to face the embarrassing truth that it may not be able to do all that it believes it can. It can be understood as a gesture or a tool of analysing and synthesising future visions. They can serve us as a means of developing ways to better care for our world, our cities, our survival and for each other says dr. Barbara Predan from University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design, who with dr. Michala Lipkova conducted a participatory workshop in collaboration with Avtomatik Delovišče in Koper, Slovenia.
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Barbara Predan is a industrial designer, theoretician and critic at the University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the co-author of the books Back to Design: An Anthological Survey of the Theory of Design in Slovenia (Litera and Pekinpah, 2007) and Sustainable Alternatives in Design: It’s High Time We Start Losing Time (Museum of Architecture and Design and Pekinpah, 2009). She is also the co-author of the books and exhibitions Iskra: Non-Aligned Design 1946–1990 (Museum of Architecture and Design and Pekinpah, 2009; Museum of Yugoslav History, 2013), Niko Kralj: The Unknown Famous Designer (Museum of Architecture and Design, 2011; Architekturzentrum Vienna, 2012); Gorenje with Vision (Gorenje and Velenje Gallery 2012) and the co-author of the exhibition Past Future Perfect (SKICA in Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna, 2014–15). Since 2010, With Petra Černe Oven has been co-editing Zbirka 42 since 2010, a series of books on design, under the auspices of the Pekinpah Association. Predan has published professional and scholarly articles in Design Issues, Design Principles and Practices, ČKZ, 2+3D, Oris and Piranesi. With Černe Oven were invited to contribute a text to the Gower Handbook of Information Design (Gower Publishing, London 2015). Predan is a co-founder and leader of the department of design theory at the Pekinpah Association.