The Patadesign School is an exceptional school of exceptions. Responding to a crying need in the design community, and the world at large, the Patadesign School designed itself into existence. It is an autonomous institution that sets out to consciously bring out the pataphysical dimension of design, with the mission of offering a critical response to the role of design in the age of the artificial. The Patadesign School was founded by Isabella Brandalise, Henrique Eira, and Dr. Søren Rosenbak.
As a pataphysical design school, they welcome designers of all stripes to apply: practitioners, students, researchers, hoaxers, believers, bureaucrats, and jugglers.
The School is not centred on the teaching of a specific craft in design, be it woodwork, UX, business design, fashion design, human-centred design or crocodile-centred design for that matter. Rather, it assumes that applicants are bringing their very own particular set of eclectic skills and knowledges to the School, and consciously so.
Further, following the pataphysical principle of equivalence between all the exceptions which make up this world, the School is indiscriminate in the extreme, in its pursuit of exceptional participants.
They don’t expect prospective students to show up with a deep familiarity with pataphysics. This is fundamentally unnecessary, as successful applications unconsciously will be mastering pataphysics already in their respective practices. At the school we seek to harness the collective skills of the group in a set of exceptional explorations of the imaginary nature of design solutions. In this process we expose the pataphysical dimension of design, bringing it to consciousness.
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