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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 will also through case studies look at systems that may not seem 'designed' as such but that present components of being planned and organised for a particular purpose.
We'll look at some of these entanglements in 12 sessions structured around 3 sections:
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