Block Seminar Design Theory 5th semester
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- Final Work: The format and platform of the final outcome is decided together with the students- it will be an online representation of your reboot ideas (possibly 1-page website, written essay, video, or use of hosting platform such as TikTok, filmed performance, games, new object). Preferably individual work (the works can be in connection with one another). Your work needs to be in adequacy with the intention and the process. The collection of works from each student will constitute together an online exhibition.
- +150 words to give context to the piece.
- 3-5 mn presentation : why you made it, how it relates to the topic
- reboot ideas: design education, the notion of the future, expanding the design field, exploring the perception of design in the world, specific technologies/designs, biases and stereotypes, fostering inclusiveness and equity, opportunities of undesign/untechnologize. Ask yourself the question of 'what you would like to reboot' (in your studies, life, design field, in societal conventions, etc..), respond to the proposals of the papers you read (for instance, about undesigning, or considering unconventional ways to address a topic), go back to the initial questions at the beginning of the week (what would you do differently in your studies?), etc.... The final assignment is a statement or positioning or response to those provocative questions
- the ideas could represent your position on a topic above or on a case study discussed in class, your new proposal, or your interpretation of an issue
- potential audience: defined togetherother people in the design fields
- upload online your statement and send me as well a hard copy via email / wetransfer
- Final presentation on Zoom, ideally from a location related to your topic (it can be recorded ahead of the class session and you introduce the video in class).
Final outcomes presented by the students are collected on one page.
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| Mon 6.09 - Past <> Imagineers | Tu 7.09 - Future <> Futurisms | We 8.09 - | Th 9.09 - (...) | Fr 10.09 - |
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9.00
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| All day: Independent study - Prepare final assignment | Morning: |
Afternoon: | Afternoon: | 15.00 Guest Lecture:
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| 5.H02 | 5.H02 | Online | Online |
Literature/References
- To prepare for Monday 6.09:
- Carolyn Marvin. 1990. When Old Technologies Were New. Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press.
1st chapter. "Inventing the Expert. Technological Literacy as Social Currency" (pp.9-32)
- Carolyn Marvin. 1990. When Old Technologies Were New. Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press.
- To prepare for Tuesday 7.09:
- Indigeneous Protocol and AI - Read intro + choose & read one paper in the overall document
- Indigeneous Protocol and AI - Read intro + choose & read one paper in the overall document
- To read for Wednesday 8.09 (underline 2-3 points that sparked questions and possibly points that you felt should have been addressed in the paper)
- Changing Education for the 21st century
- Undesigning Technology: Considering the negation of design by design
- Optional reading:
- How (not) to write about global health (the author speaks here of global health but this could also be about design projects)
Guest Lecture by Tiara Roxanne
Tiara Roxanne (PhD) is an Indigenous cyberfeminist, scholar and artist based in Berlin. Her research and artistic practice investigates the encounter between the Indigenous Body and AI by interrogating colonial structures embedded within machine learning systems. Her work more specifically explores the notion that decolonization is not possible and therefore we must establish decolonial gestures, a concept she has been developing from the start of her dissertation, "Recovering Indigeneity: Territorial Dehiscence and Digital Immanence," which was completed in June of 2019 under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. In this way, decolonial gestures stand in as forces and modes of decolonial or anti-colonial embodied actions. Moreover, as a performance artist and practitioner, she works between the digital and the material using textile. Currently her work is mediated through the color red. Tiara has presented her work at Images Festival (Toronto), Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center (NY), Trinity Square Video (Toronto), SOAS (London), SLU (Madrid), Transmediale (Berlin), Duke University (NC), re:publica (Berlin), Tech Open Air (Berlin), AMOQA (Athens), among others.
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