How can design foster freedom and playfulness for its users? Join designer Tereza Ruller as she discusses ‘performative design’ as a practice to effect social change.

How can we create objects and situations that promote activity and participation for social good? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designer Tereza Ruller (The Rodina) provides an answer to these questions. Drawing on recent projects, she will propose the term “performative design” as a practice that draws on graphic design, events, bodies and action to effect social change.

This talk is part of School of Speculation, a nomadic critical design summer school founded by Pierre Shaw and Kishan San.

The Rodina (Tereza and Vit Ruller)

The Rodina (Tereza and Vit Ruller) is an Amsterdam based post-critical design studio with an experimental practice using performance art, play and subversion. The Rodina invents ways in which experience, knowledge and relations are produced and preserved.

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Performative Design at The Design Museum at 18:30 on Tuesday 30 July. To enter the competition, send an email to vienna@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.
Q: Besides having a normal mayor, Amsterdam also has a night life mayor, a bike mayor and another person with a certain quality. But what is it?
A: .1) A city squatter .2) A city drunk .3) A city poet .4) A city fraud