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Come and join the presentations and discussion with students, scientists, designers and design critics on lightness and tourism.
We live in a heavy world. In 2020, for the first time in history, the total weight of human made objects exceeded all biomass on the planet. Many actions we take and objects we consume perpetuate a heavy lifestyle. One such example, is the tourism industry. If tourism was a country, it would be the 3rd worst polluter in the world.
Students of the Master Industrial Design along with Ed van Hinte and experts in the field, researched the tourism industry and developed an alternative holiday arrangement.
Dreamventures
Tourism is an $8,8 billion dollar industry. It accounts for 10,4% of Global GDP and approximately 1 in 10 people work either directly or indirectly in the tourism sector. It is of huge economic importance. However, the tourism sector also accounts for 8% of the total CO2 emissions and can have devastating effects on the social fabrics of communities.
Dreamventures is a holiday arrangement that explores the night as an avenue for holidays, explorations and local adventures. The city at night can be a mysterious place. Environments are transformed in the darkness of the night, spaces that are predominantly human are deserted and invites new forms of interaction with the same cities we inhabit. Its principle is simple – adventure is just around the corner and if we set out with a refreshed eye seeking beauty, adventure and relaxation we can find them in the most unexpected places.
In this interactive presentation, we aim to provoke viewers to question the heaviness of “everyday human lives” and collectively discuss and wonder how we can make our world lighter.
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Programme
16:00 Welcome by Maaike Roozenburg, Head of the Master Industrial Design, KABK
16:05 Introduction Traveling Light: on lightness and tourism, Ed van Hinte
16:25 Presentation Dreamventures by students of the Master Industrial Design
16:50 Discussion on Traveling light with experts, scientists and stakeholders
17:25 Walking around, checking in with Dreamventures & drinks
18.00 Closing
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Speakers
Ed van Hinte is an industrial designer with an aversion for objects but foremost design critic and writer. Within his Design Research Station challenging the ‘circular economy’ with its mainly technical and naively functional approach. Recently published ‘Designing Lightness, structures for saving energy’ on saving weight in everything we make. Forging unexpected cross-links between the world of composite materials and structural solutions, its reach axtends from toffee wrappers to cruise ships and from skyscrapers to cars and airplanes.
Hans Jungerius is director of Hidden Landscape (Verborgen Landschap), an organization which operates at the cross-over visual arts, landscape and cultural heritage. He is fascinated by contemporary landscapes and the hidden stories and processes which formed them. Manmade landscapes can be seen as a ‘cultural inscription’: an inscription that can be read in order to understand who we are and what we do. This approach makes it possible to discover new opportunities in our environment and make these opportunities visible in a way that they can be experienced in real time.
Conny Bakker is Professor of Design Methodology for Sustainable and Circular Economy at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engeneering at Delft Technical University. Her research field is Design for the Circular Economy, in particular the design and development of products that are used more than once (i.e. that have multiple lifecycles). She explores and develops design methods and strategies for product life-extension, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling, as well as the business models that enable these strategies.
Martijn Duineveld is Associate Professor at the Cultural Geography Group at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University and director of the Centre for Space, Place and Society. His research programme is named Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning and Design. One of his fields of interest and study is mass tourism and specifically to the literatures focusing on local governance aimed to tackle the perceived problems caused by tourism. Aiming to deepen the understanding of tourism and the possibilities and limits to coordinate, regulate, steer and control it in urban governance.
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