Raise Your Voice Symposium

A thoughtful morning session on situated design and socially engaged art.

On October 27, during Dutch Design Week, Baltan Laboratories organises the Raise Your Voice Symposium at Natlab. A thoughtful morning session on situated design and socially engaged art, critically examining their role in political, societal and environmental challenges, with talks from Pablo Calderon Salazar and Victoria Mckenzie. War, global health, droughts, extreme floods and systemic long-overdue crises, it is obvious: there is a lot to reconsider, reclaim and restore in the world we inhabit. The creative industries are asked to contribute to the development of alternative scenarios to find a way out of this mess. But should they? And how? In this symposium, the program opens up to the public of Dutch Design Week. We invite the audience to join the exploration of the participating designers and speakers. Raise Your Voice (RYV) is a learning trajectory for designers working on these topics, helping them to develop their own voice within the complexity of these challenges. RYV confronts them with knowledges, stories, methodologies, and practices that challenge our society’s foundations and are rooted in indisciplinarity, complexity, embodied and indigenous wisdom.