The Walker has regretfully canceled the previous three Insights Design Lecture Series due to precautions related to COVID-19.
However, the last lecture in the series by Ruben Pater will remain as scheduled and offered as a live online webcast for free. It will feature a never-before-seen prerecorded lecture—shot from the speaker’s studio in Amsterdam and heavily illustrated with images of his work—with the speaker taking questions via social media.
The lecture will be streamed on March 31st at 7 pm CDT via walkerart.org. The link will become active starting at 6 pm CDT.
Unwilling to regularly tour overseas due to the outsized carbon footprint of global air travel, Ruben Pater originally proposed a pre-recorded talk custom-made for the occasion. Focusing on the ethics of design, this highly engaging lecture will begin by tackling the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dive into complex social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing. Pater is the author of The Politics of Design, a book which AIGA.com deemed “[…] the kind of literature that should be handed out to all students on their first days at art school, along with all the Albers, Berger, Benjamin, and Sontag that form the backbone of the design curriculum—an up-to-date assessment of the landscape through which all modern visual practitioners must navigate.”
Audiences are encouraged to be in conversation with the speaker directly during and after the live webcast, either through Twitter (#InsightsDesign and @unlisted_roots) or on the lecture’s YouTube Live comments section, accessible during the event at walkerart.org.
The lecture will be archived and available at walkerart.org/insights-design-lecture-series/.
Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.
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