We at the School for Designing a Society invite you to participate in our first Design, Composition and Care Fair, Saturday, December 15th 2012 in Urbana, Illinois.

We’d like to know what you’re up to in terms of a project you’re designing and/or participating in, a composition you’re making, a care you’re shouldering. The fair will be a place and time to talk about your ‘I’ and your beloved ‘It’ (the design, the composition, the care)–and to connect with others’ “I’s” and “Its”.

The weekend will involve both tabling, design jostles, and performance venues, with a bonfire and dance. So start thinking of the ideal way to present your ‘I’ and your ‘It’: sitting at a table? hosting a discussion? performing? The Fair will take place in the Independent Media Center, with other events at the Herbert Brün House, and the Kalyx Center.

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Housing, Eating, Transportation

When you register below, please indicate your housing/transportation needs and/or offers. More information will be available soon here.

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Describe your ‘It’

If you’d like to participate, please describe your design, composition, care. Here are some ideas/terms that you might enjoy playing around with in your description:

• formulation: how do you formulate your project? You formulate when you describe something in such a way that the language is as committed to your idea as the idea is to the language.

• false statement: Is your project based on a false statement, meaning, a statement of something you desire that is not yet true in the current system, that you will work on to make true, and that will change the system if it becomes true?

• what’s your problem??!!??:  what problem does your project address? A problem is different from an undesirable state of affairs, in that you really really want to change that state of affairs, and so are gol darn going to do something about it. That behavior changes an undesirable state of affairs into a problem you’re going to solve.

• entailment structure: How do you situate your project within an entailment structure? An entailment structure shows how a concept is defined by other concepts. To make one, lay out the ideas that are involved in your thinking of your project. One idea may infer or imply other ideas, or lead to, be distinguished from, be defined as, etc. *see entailment structure for ‘design’

• revolutionary description: An idea created by Tim Richardson, where you start with the particular thing you’re doing, then link that with an imagined and desired change in the system as a consequence, and then link that to an even bigger change, and so on!

• connecting design/composition with care:  How do you do that?  In the current system, design/composition are linked with innovation, not with care, and generally have this entailment structure:

The entailment structure I want is: