Karel Dudesek: The design of conflicts in the era of political correctness

The design of conflicts in the era of political correctness - Held by Karel Dudesek
29th March 2006

My early performance's and television experiments have also addressed political correctness, participatory culture, freedom of speech and copyright. Conflicts nowadays are in certain areas extinguished and in others alive and intensive as not known before.
The importance of establishing conflicts in design and art processes, in architecture and product design is in my opinion an important skill which should be an integrative part of higher education in the UK. Some questions will be asked: Is terrorism the only alternative to entertain bored consumers? Why the Islam inherited the bad boy game after the collapse of Communist empire? Post Creutzfeldt-Jakob economy, or is the bird flu the only ecological rescue? From skills, to knowledge, who needs wisdom in a consumer oriented society?

About the lecturer:

Karel Dudesek is co founder of IUPA (Institute of unknown political affairs), Minus Deltat (music and performance group) the Ponton Media Lab in Hamburg, director of Van Gogh TV- Atlanta/Meckelfeld, former director of the New Media department at the University of applied Arts- Vienna and today Course Leader for Postgraduate studies in Ravensbourne.