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This unique event comprises a week-long series of symposia, workshops, presentations, performances and exhibitions in Dublin for the week 15-19 February 2010 and is organised by Gradcam.

The conference addresses the state of development of contemporary research in and through cultural practice. It makes particular reference to questions of the public interest, and of the broad purposes, that arts research may serve. The conference takes place at Dublin City Council’s new “wood quay venue” just beside Christ Church Cathedral in the centre of Dublin.

A design symposium and screening of Eames films will be held Monday Feb 15th as part of the major conference 'arts research: publics and purposes'.

The symposium (2-5 pm) will be chaired by Ali Grehan, City Architect, DCC. It comprises a panel of four speakers and then a keynote address by Eames Demetrios, the grandson of the celebrated designers Charles and Ray Eames who now runs the Eames office, Eames Foundation and is also a film maker and 'geographer-at-large'.

The other 4 speakers trouble prevailing definitions of design and its relationship to the public, proposing variously that design is a form of critical philosophy, that our current concept of the user is one-dimensional and that in fact the entire definition of design and the typical split between producer/user should be overhauled in favour of design as a form of co-conspiracy.

For more info visit http://gradcam.ie

You can book for the conference at www.gradcam.ie/art_research_public/php#booking

Posted: 02/02/2010 10:29:05

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