The ART&DESIGN for Social Justice Symposium focuses on how the tools and inherent abilities within the areas of art and design can be utilized in addressing issues confronting less advantaged groups within our local communities, states, regions or world. The event is designed to generate synergy, spawn collaborative projects among participants, create new scholarly initiatives, and allow examination of the role that art and design plays in the telling of a broader social narrative.
The 2010 Symposium will be held January 18, 2010, in association with the 15th anniversary of the Kids' Guernica International Peace Mural Project, which will involve workshops, exhibits and events preceeding the actual Symposium. The Call for Papers for the fourth annual 2010 Symposium brought in submissions from across the United States and numerous international ones. Registration fees are $50 (US) for faculty and adults and $25 (US) for students. All presenters and participants must register. The registration form is posted at the above right-hand corner of this website.
The 2010 keynote speaker (Sunday night) will be HATTO FISCHER. Dr. Fischer, poet and philosopher, coordinator of Poiein Kai Prattein ('to create and to do') was born in Germany. He immigrated with his parents to Ottawa, Canada where he stayed till 1969. After studies in economics and political science at Carleton University in Ottawa and Philosophy of Science at London School of Economics, he returned to Germany where he took up studies of classical philosophy. His Ph.D. dissertation deals with articulation problems of workers and the traditon of the German Trade Union. While in Berlin he organised a Flying University after the Polish model, worked in the fields of political education and taught art history courses at the Free Art School ETAGE while being an art critic for the TAGESZEITUNG. Since 1988 he has been living in Athens, Greece. He has been connected with the Kids' Guernica Project since 2005.
The featured luncheon speaker will be DR. TAKUYA KANEDA, Professor of Art Education at Otsuma Women's University in Tokyo. He traveled extensively in Asia and spent some years in Nepal and India. He is very active as the Representative of Kids' Guernica International Peace Mural Project and organized many workshops for children in different places of the world to help grow peace consciousness through art. He is the co-author of Peaceful Children: Beyond War, Violence and Bullying and has written many articles on education including the Concept of Freedom in Art Education in Japan and Shanti, Peacefulness of Mind.
The endnote speaker will be RAYMOND L. GOODSON who is the Chairman and Founder of 3Form Inc. a corporation well known for their laminated panels, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The materials 3Form laminates comes from Third World artisans. He is a graduate of Florida High School (FSU), Brigham Young University and holds an MBA from Stanford University. He has served as president of numerous petro-chemical based corporations. Importantly, Mr. Goodson has been a long-term advocate of corporate sustainability with work to recycle expanded polystyrene (1971), recycling waste streams of major chemical operations (1983), and starting the Green Initiative at 3Form (1995).
The 2009 Symposium was held Monday, January 19, 2009 on the campus of Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. The Call for Papers sought scholarship in all areas of the arts addressing social justice. Symposium attendance came from educators or practitioners from within the fine and performing arts, art education, interior design, architecture and social services. We particularly encouraged participation by graduate and undergraduate students. It is our hope that the Symposium date coinciding with the national Martin Luther King Holiday facilitates attendance by these constituents. Twelve juried papers were selected with participants from over six different states, that highlight aspects of the arts and social justice.
The Symposium keynote speaker was EVE BLOSSOM, founder of Lulan Artisans. The endnote speaker was JOAN D. FROSCH, Professor of Dance and Assistant Director of the School of Theatre and Dance, affiliate faculty of the Centers for African Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, and consultant for such agencies as the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The full proceedings from the 2009, 2007 and 2006 symposia can be found at the upper right of this website.
The 2010 ART&DESIGN for Social Justice Symposium is sponsored by the Department of Interior Design and the Department of Art Education and underwritten by the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance of Florida State University. This symposium is an annual event.
If you have questions about the symposium please contact:
Eric Wiedegreen, Symposium Co-Chair
(FSU Chair of Interior Design)
ewiedegr@fsu.edu
850.644.1436
Dave Gussak, Symposium Co-Chair
(FSU Chair of Art Education)
dgussak@fsu.edu
850.645.5663
Peter Munton, Symposium Coordinator
pmunton@fsu.edu
850.644.1436
Lisa Waxman, Paper and Proceedings Editor
lwaxman@fsu.edu
850.644.8326
Tom Anderson, Kids' Guernica Project Florida Coordinator
tanderson@fsu.edu
850.644.2331
social justice n.
"Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others."
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice