The international exhibition features work, research concepts and provocations of the future, created by KTU lecturers and students.
OTHERWISE explores design as a dynamic and critical element in shaping the present toward alternative futures. It challenges the idea that design merely “provides solutions,” emphasizing instead its deeper role: to continuously question, imagine alternatives, and critically assess the consequences of every choice — including the choice to not design.
The exhibition unfolds around a central provocation:
What happens when design is absent, poorly executed, or unconscious? Are there OTHER solutions? Are they WISE enough?
In the discussion we will think about which one is more intimidating: a future without design or design without future? Within the context of a new Master degree study program “Design for Sustainable Future” in KTU, the discussion raises questions about the changing role of designers in response to the polycrisis, the importance of design research methodologies for other disciplines, and the social, mental, economical barriers design can dismantle if we choose to design otherwise.
Discussion guests: Nicholas Sebastian Stevens (Researcher in Design of Information Systems, University of Oslo), Jurga Želvytė (Creative Director of „Alma Literra“, newly elected head of Lithuanian Desgin Association), Rūta Valušytė (Author of MA Design for Sustainable Future). Moderator: Dovilė Gaižauskienė (Researcher in Participatory design).
Exhibition location: KTU M-Lab, Studentų St. 63A, Kaunas
Opening event and discussion: June 2, 6:00 PM
Exhibition open to visitors:
June 3–6, 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM (ATTENTION: the building will be locked at 6pm, so we ask you to leave intil then)
June 7th, 13:00 PM – 15:00 PM
A selection of design and research objects includes these authors:
Indraja Raudonikytė
Giuseppe Donvito
Dovilė Gaižauskienė
Lukas Avėnas
Saulius Paliukas
Kęstutis Lekeckas
Lorenzo Piazzi
Caterina Pirola
Sofia Martinelli
Enrico Virgili
Lukas Gedvila
Students of the Audio-Visual Laboratory as a Communication Design module (2022–2024)
Students of the “Design Fundamentals” module in the Spring semester of 2024
Students of the 3D Animation and 3D Animation and Visualization modules in 2024
