Institutet för Strategisk Slöjd kommer under en dag på museet att arbeta med det kommande numret av zinet Keepin Up som utvecklar Otto Salomons klassiska diskussioner om slöjden i möte med dagens post-industriella design, hacker-kultur och den sociala designens operativa krigskonst. Vad spelar slöjden och hantverket för roll i dagens samhälle, inom museet, och inom det utbildningsindustriella komplexet? På kvällen (8 ferburari kl. 18.00) kommer en presentation av zinet att sammanfatta dagens forskning och diskussioner.

The Institute for Strategic Sloyd (ISS) is an investigation centre for deep operations into craft-based practical knowledge production. Strategic Sloyd is the operational art of orchestrating and implementing meshworked engagements and practices at the intermediate levels between household tactics and strategic craft development. The institute aims at a further development and application of the design doctrine of user empowerment, skill dissemination and micro-economical management though community exchange of hands-on craftwork (often called educational sloyd). Strategic Sloyd mobilizes resources and actualizes assets by craft. The Institute for Strategic Sloyd is an international collaboration of sloyd practitioners and researchers, and also publishes the peer-created sloyd research journal Keepin Up.

Biografi Otto von Busch är designer, hantverkare, teoretiker, aktivist och forskare. Han slöjdar fram nya designroller. I sina modeprojekt och i sin forskning undersöker han en ny designerroll inom mode. En roll som experimenterar med hur mode kan hackas, bändas, trimmas och delas mellan många deltagare som en form av social design och politisk aktivism. Denna designpraktik kallar han ”modets hacktivism”, en engagerad och kollektiv process där nya handlingsmöjligheter utforskas genom gör-det-själv-praktiker samtidigt som deltagarna utvecklar hantverkskunnande och tränar sin uppmärksamhet gentemot mode.

Biography Otto von Busch is a Haute Couture Heretic and DIY-demagogue, but also researcher in fashion, design and craft. He has a background in arts, craft, design and theory. His PhD, called Fashion-able: Heretic Journeys in Engaged Fashion Design (2008), explores, with hands-on projects, how participatory practices can render fashion inclusive, yet still exclusive. To realize this he draws on the practice and tactics of hacking, fan fiction, liberation theology and development practice with which he forges an alliance. They all share an approach that can inspire to liberate the mythical energy in fashion – hacking the flows of the operating system, but keeping the power on. In his research he also explores the emergence of a new “hacktivist” designer role in fashion, where the designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make participants become fashion-able.