Oliver Wehn. Visual Communication.

On Social Change.

The economic development and the heavy crisis of the financial system world-wide have shaken people's life in the very foundations. In my bachelor thesis project I intended to formulate a visual statement against social exclusion dynamics caused by the establishment of a permanent feeling of social insecurity.

12/2008–07/2009. In Western societies the assigment of social valuation is mainly geared to the participation in the system of gainful employment. Work produces purpose, structure, divides and defines our lifetime and living space. So it basically determines the perception and organization of the world we live in. But what happens if this structur starts to dissolve, to lose more and more of its regulative and integrating powers? How can designers contribute to discourses on social problems and changes?