MEETING #1: A VOCABULARY FOR PRACTICE
NEWS
MEETING #1:
A VOCABULARY FOR PRACTICE
DATE/TIME: 20 FEB, 6 - 8:30 P.M.
PURPOSE:
• INTRODUCE THE BOOK ‘A MEANINGFUL ORDER’
• OUTLINE THE SCOPE OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN PRACTICE, PARTICULARLY BEYOND ITS VISUAL AND COMPOSITIONAL ASPECTS
PARTICIPANTS:
• OLIVER KNIGHT & RORY MCGRATH (OK-RM)
• JAMES LANGDON
• LILA MATSUMOTO
• MICHELA ZOPPI
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OK-RM founded by OLIVER KNIGHT and RORY MCGRATH in 2008, is intent on pushing the potentialities of what a design practice can be. For Knight and McGrath design is here understood—in its broadest sense—as a means of communicating, a transitive verb that operates laterally across disciplines and media. Based in London and working globally, OK-RM operates at the pivot point where attitude becomes form. Interrogating beliefs, procedures, behavioural, temporal and material realities, OK-RM (re)consider what it means to operate progressively within the world and work together. This approach often results in long- standing exchanges and collaborations.
JAMES LANGDON writes sentences and makes images to enable a certain kind of graphic design. Designerly writing would be a way of putting it. His PhD, from RMIT University in Melbourne, concerns isomorphism — unreasonable fidelity! — in graphic design. From 2008 to 2018 he was a founding director and designer of the artist-run multiverse Eastside Projects in Birmingham. From 2017 to 2023 he was professor at HfG Karlsruhe. His writing on subjects in and around art and design has been published in journals including Bricks from the Kiln, The Bulletins of the Serving Library, Revue Faire, Fillip; and in recent anthologies on design education ‘One and Many Mirrors’ (Occasional Papers, 2020) and ‘Extra-Curricular’ (Onomatopee, 2018).
LILA MATSUMOTO is a writer and musician. Recent work includes Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water (Prototype), which was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize, Foggy Eyes (Earthbound Press), and Many Glorious Petals (Feeding Tube Records). Her poetry, criticism and artwriting has been widely anthologised and published in places such as MAP Magazine and Futch Journal, and aired on BBC Radio 3. She co-runs the music and performance series Rammel Club in Nottingham and teaches poetics and creative-critical writing at the University of Nottingham.
MICHELA ZOPPI is an art director and designer specialised in design for publishing. She collaborates with creative figures in art, architecture, design and fashion to challenge the outcomes of communication, art direction, and editorial design. She also operates as a design writer, researcher, and lecturer, teaching at Central Saint Martins and leading the Architectural Association Media Studies course titled “The Architecture of the Book”. Alongside her studio practice, she runs Action Motion, an independent publishing imprint committed to the exploration, curation, and dissemination of female and feminist projects and specialised in the publication of photography and artist books.
Proceeds from the sales of this event will be donated to Hackney Night Shelter. Registered Charity number 1139183.
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