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Dr Jean-Baptiste Labrune, jeanbaptisteparis@gmail.com
Verena Ziegler, verena.ziegler@zhdk.ch
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Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from 13.00-15.00 ZT 4.T31.
OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
The seminar proposes a critical examination of political components of design as it articulates technology and society.
Design is often understood on the surface as an activity producing more or less useful or ornamental things - outside the scope of its entanglements with questions of policy, gender, resources, power structures. Yet, designers can hold an agenda in these matters and designed artefacts and systems can affect how people live, communicate and act.
We'll look at some of these entanglements in 12 sessions structured around 3 sections:
- Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems held by Verena Ziegler
Technoculture and Society held by Dr Jean-Baptiste Labrune
- The Design of Trade held by Dr Joëlle Bitton
We'll look at the material dimension of politics based on essays, films excerpts, artefacts and situations.
Session 01 – 18.02 Observation I
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Session 11 – 13.05 - Commodities Trade (or session Ecosystems tbc)
Guest Lecture: tbc
Session 12 – 20.05 - The Silk Road
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