Workshop — Cutting the Territories, Warsaw

Cutting the Territories

Workshop in collaboration with The Rodina
(poster design in collaboration with The Rodina)

Concept

Switch of the territories

Is declarative shift towards social impact and political activities stands for real face of today’s designers?

Who is the real prominent of todays picture of luxury and wealth present in social media?
Whether the visual language we have evolved and theories behind another aesthetic conventions are not another kind of mask?

Why masks are so present symbol in todays culture? Masks very often represent movements characterized by changes, but the changes are almost imperceptible.
why these conventions, roles are so easily digested in order to represent different kind of human activity – Art, Business, Market, Design world.

Maybe the visual conventions are even more dangerous, maybe they are obscuring viruses multiplying and growing under the license of todays fashion and popularity?

What will happen if we will switch environment in which these conventions are evolving? whether we are able to reveal something? will they adopt or mutate into new species?

* “Word and image locks’ and ‘association blocks’ lock the mind into conventional patterns of thinking, speaking, acting, and perceiving things.”
we would like to examine some techniques for breaking out of the virus’s control.
*William Seward Burroughs

Colophon

• Targi Wiedzy Graficznej 2014,
• Dom Słowa Polskiego, ul. Miedziana 11, Warsaw
• Workshop lead by Noviki and The Rodina team
• Organized by: STGU