The 2019 edition of the International Design Principles and Practices Conference was organised by Design Department of St Petersburg University in collaboration with Common Ground Research Network. The Conference invited designers and academics to present their ideas and experience, concerning the differing relationships between Design and Context.
«Traditionally the outcome of design are the objects produced to respond to the economic, functional, aesthetic needs; with meanings and messages inserted into those objects. Exploring these objects and meanings, we could identify them as tools and methods of change by Design and trace them as ‘contours’ of innovation on an alternative map of new contexts, influenced and born through Design activities. In this line of questioning there is a productive demand: how design allows for the plurality of present contexts, the growing gap between people living in the future and in the past, between different cultures, professional fields and thus, different contexts»
Contribution: Mariia Zolotova, Artem Rulev, Aliona Zerdeleva, Julia Ptushkina, Sara Hoke, and many others. The Conference was supported by «Events SPbU» and «Design and Principles Research Network». The photos are provided by the SPbU PR Department. Within the project I was responsible for visual communication, developing conference program, communication with keynote speakers etc.
