EVENING EVENT: Design Culture Salon 16: What does design do for citizenship in the age of the consum

: Notions of the consumer and the citizen have become curiously entangled in recent years. In many cases, design has been the culprit in delivering this entanglement. Advertisements, branding and luxury lifestyle products increasingly conflate buying and consuming with individual agency on a variety of public issues, from climate change to online privacy. But how meaningful is this association? If design has been a powerful tool in merging notions of consumerism and citizenship, then how might it be used as a tool to reverse this? What other forms of citizenship are available to design with? Chair: Guy Julier, Professor of Design Culture, University of Brighton and Victoria and Albert Museum. Panel: Jon Alexander, Founder of New Citizenship Project Gordon Hush, Head of Product Design, Glasgow School of Art Noortje Marres, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths Barry Quirk, Chief Executive of Lewisham Council Leanne Wierzba, Winchester School of Art/V&A Research Fellow in Craft/Luxury 18.30-20.30 Free, booking essential (includes drink)

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