Kris Krois
Kris Krois is a designer and facilitator for social-ecological transformation. He teaches/researches in the transdisciplinary and practice-based Master in Eco-Social Design at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano. Together with students and teachers/researchers as well as with partners from neighbourhoods, agricultures, sciences and activism, he is co-creating design practices, tools and structures that contribute to social-ecological transformations towards more solidary and sustainable modes of living and production. Since 2013 he is organising the annual conference By Design or by Disaster. He is part of KAUZ-Laboratory for Climate Justice, Work and Future, and co-founder of the New European Bauhaus of the Mountains and Climate Action South Tyrol.
The quote by Emma Goldman, “If it’s not for revolution, I don’t dance!”, opens the session with Kris Krois, who invites participants to reflect on the role of the artist and the designer in emancipatory social and ecological transformation.
Art and design are understood as political and relational practices, capable of disrupting normality, countering fatalism and apathy, and making resistance desirable, participatory, and joyful.
Transformation is not limited to economic structures, but above all concerns a shift in social relationships: the logic of commons and care is set in contrast to that of capitalism, intertwining social movements, concrete alternatives, and open technologies.
Kris Krois’s workshop is in close dialogue with Beatrice Citterio’s Walk and Talk, which unfolds through a walk to the Doss del Sabion ski area.
In the evening, the mentors facilitated a shared moment of final collective reflection.
