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THURSDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2011

20:00 Welcome Remarks
Jean-Baptiste Joly, Akademie Schloss Solitude

20:15 Craftsmanship
Richard Sennett, New York University / London School of Economics

FRIDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2011

09:00 Why Design Theory?
Sarah Owens, Zurich University of the Arts and Björn Franke, Royal College of Art, London

09:30 Redesigning Design
Rick Poynor, Design Writer, London

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Art of the Impossible: The Politics of Designing Utopia
Stephen Duncombe, New York University

12:00 Designing Future Practices
Lucy Kimbell, University of Oxford / Fieldstudio, London

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Making and Cognition: A Perspective from Anthropology
Susanne Küchler, University College London

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 For They Know Not What They Do: Mundane Things in a Technoscientific World
Alfred Nordmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt

17:00 Homo Faber as Self-Designer
Oliver Müller, University of Freiburg

18:30 Dinner

SATURDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 2011

09:00 Parallel Workshops

Workshop 1: Design as a Human Activity
Moderator: Sarah Owens, Zurich University of the Arts

Workshop 2: The Extended Notion of Design
Moderator: Bernhard Hopfengärtner, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Workshop 3: Design as a Humanistic Discipline
Moderator: Björn Franke, Royal College of Art, London

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Workshop Reports

11:30 Concluding Remarks
Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich

12:30 Lunch