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Lecturers

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This year’s edition of Spatial Interaction takes place in collaboration with the organization of Labör. Labör is an experimental meeting space in a former coppersmith's workshop near Oerlikon station. It is located on the MFO site, a former machine factory whose conversion and further development is currently being promoted by the city of Zurich. In this development Labör puts an emphasis on circularity.

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In this year's edition of Spatial Interaction, we focus on interactions in public space that build on playful formats for circular exchange and extensions of use. In collaboration with Labör (see 'collaboration' above), we explore the new Zurich development area at the MFO site and search for available and non-privatised resources (material and social). We ask ourselves the question of the valorisation of resources, who can lay claim to them and to what extent, and how their actual use should be negotiated.

In addition to the production facilities at ZHdK, we can use Labör's new building as an on-site base. In groups, we develop ideas and concepts for involvement and participation in this area in transition. We implement the developed approaches in prototypes that expand the existing environment and its current use with new patterns of movement, forms of exchange and encounter, digital layers and technology-supported spatial experiences.

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Ultimately, the outcomes of the module will envision ways ofreconfiguring the potential of available resources, human interrelations and local knowledge at a specific publicly accessible location. We approach the topic with prototypes and design interventions that leverage our technical skills and designerly perspective. The actual format of the end results will be developed through in-class discussions and steering meetings.

Objectives:

1. Reflect on AI's Impact: Investigate the current and potential implications of AI on democratic and political processes, considering issues such as privacy, bias, polarisation and social and behavioural manipulation.

2. Explore Spatial Dynamics: Explore how physical public spaces are being reshaped by AI and how the future might be reimagined using AI to foster inclusivity, civic engagement, greater awareness or critical thinking on the topic.

3. Prototype Experimental Futures: Create tangible prototypes and/or interventions that embody new ways of ‍‍‍living with AI in public spaces and in democratic processes. Record your results extensively with photos, video and audio.

Schedule

(Vinzenz Urlaub: 7.-13.April)

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