Workshop title:
The source of feminine power and its impact (influence) on the development of a dialogue between men and women (all over the world) – poster and its power transmission

Teacher:

Maja Wolna (Poland)

date:

24.04.2017

For centuries, women were seen chiefly as beings meant to serve others. The dominance of patriarchy disturbed the natural order and almost reduced women's innate ability to use their own power and to share it with the world. Suppression of the natural female desires and skills has been progressively impeding women's ability to connect with their own energy force, which is the basis of both vital and creative energies. Authentic connection with the female power within us is not only a source of emotional and physical health, but also the beginning of healthy relations with ourselves and with our own potentials. It is also the essential aspect of building healthy relations between women and men. The world needs balance, which we can get closer to by discovering, manifesting and respecting our needs and the natural right to live and to create in accordance with our natural rhythms.

Workshop title:
Everyday sexism

Teacher:

Verena Gerlach (Germany)

date:

24.04.2017

India’s world famous tradition of sign painting and lettering was the main incentive for graphic designer and typographer Verena Gerlach from Berlin to spend two months in the Goethe bangaloREsidency summer 2014. Initially, Verena conceptualised a poster series based on the needs and desires of young women from the weaker economic section of Indian society. Based on this lettering, she decided to delve even deeper into the world of Indian decorative craft, adding punch to her already powerful designs.

Starting with raw silk, Verena worked with the craftworkers to embellish posters with words from hand-painted Kannada and English shop signs and ornament them with beads and sequins. She also documented the entire silk-production process in photographs.

Workshop title:
Women's Rights,
are Human Rights. Designing posters as an agent for social change

Teacher:

Janna Beck

date:

24.04.2017

How Do Women profile themselves? Cultural or

personal differences? Perception of viewers?The workshop was conceptualised in 6 steps: Contextualise: group discussions and brainstorming about the topic of selfies: What are selfies? What defines a selfie? opposites #yesorno?: What kind of a picture serves the #selfie? How visible should it be? Should it be

a photo? Can it be an illustration? Selfie versus profile? Selfies in motion/animated gifs? Then collect: find examples online, look for selfies, bad selfies, selfies that stand out; Next step for the students is to select and present arguments why the specific images were selected; Claim: this was the most surreal sub-assignment, how to claim a selfie from someone else. We experimented with remakes, morphing of images and questioned copyrights. Make static and dynamic selfies: experiment with different ways of photographing, different kinds of applications, filters, rephotographing from the screen; As the end of the experiment students have to present and tag selfie online;

Workshop title:
Women on the street

Teacher:

Ceren Caliscan (Turkey)

date:

24.04.2017

place:

instalation in city center

"This workshop integrated with Typography and Environmental Graphic Design. Environmental Graphic Design (EGD) embraces many design disciplines including graphic, architectural, interior, and landscape, all concerned with the visual aspects of wayfinding and signage, communicating identity and information, mural, installation and shaping the idea of creating experiences that connect people to place. Students should think themselves as a flaneuse during apply their project in the city. Essential thing is using Typography and Woman Rights. This work could be Mural, Video Mapping, Installation, Signage, Wayfinding or only Typography on Wall."

Workshop title:
sculpture objects+minibooks

Teacher:

Grafprom (Ukraine)

date:

24.04.2017

1st day

Find objects — cast with plaster

creation of a ready made sculpture. We ask students to find an object which could be interpreted in their message. this object could be something small or simple, it could even be a part of a body. to cast it in plaster, first we have to make the mould and then we can get the sculpture. thus it’s not anymore an object itself, it becomes a symbol.

2nd day

taking photographs of casted objects. print them in some bigger size. paint after we have a sculpture we are going to make a portrait of it, by taking photographs. we have to take a lot of thing into account such as light, framing, surrounding maybe. A3 size for instance. and let’s make it black and white so we could add the colour or our personal artistic touch afterwards. we can not only add colors but also some writing or drawing

3rd day

compose all the material in minibooks now we have a bunch of photographs of our beloved objects. we have them painted. We have objects themselves at least. how should we present it? We are about make a small book which tells the story of our art process and a story of our object, which has became a new media painting

what we’ll need:

gouache, water colours, colour pencils, felt pens - basic colours, two brushes (big and small) computers with photoshop and indesign preinstalled

Workshop title:
Feminine or Masculine

type design.

Poster design workshop

Teacher:

Ausra Lisauskiene (Lituania)

date:

24.04.2017

The experimental workshop will conceptually explore the meaning of the Feminine and Masculine type design and typography in a contemporary cultural/social practices. The students will focus on creating a set of letters communicating as a textual and visual narrative through the medium chosen by themselves: the print media, animation, video, interactive design, etc. A strong concept has to be made into a compelling communication piece through the experimental typography. In addition to communication concerns, the students will be focusing on the contemporary society, to radar or mirror social, cultural or every-day live practice/habits between genders.