the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Sandy Kaltenborn
Design is Not Enough: Visual Communication & Other Misunderstandings
This lecture took place on December 9th, 2008 at 7:00 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union
Lecture introduction
For the last 10 years, Kaltenborn’s studio, Image-Shift/Bildwechsel , has been driven by the idea of responsible design work, cultivating a productive inter-dependency with social and political struggle. This presentation is a discussion on design and its social circumstances. A talk that questions design’s social, cultural, and political relations by emphasizing the importance of visual communication in the contexts of social movements. How can design work to sensitize both activists and new audiences to the production of dialogical alternatives to market-based practices?
About Sandy Kaltenborn
Sandy Kaltenborn is a Berlin based graphic designer. His studio “image-shift- visual communication and other misunderstandings” works primarily in social, political and cultural settings.