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Session 2: Diversity beyond Human

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time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom

Guest: Prof. Dr. Sascha Roesler

Topics: atmosphere, spatial diversity, bio diversity diversity…

  • TBA

Session 3: Design Symposium (cancelled)

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3: Attunement : Theory in the Field

28. September 2020.

time: 9.00am - 12.00pm
location: Zurich outdoors

Topics : attunement, promenadology situated knowledge, situated interaction…  

  • Th. Morton, “Attune” in Cohen, J.J. and Lowell D.. Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/57348.

  • ed. M. Kuzmanovic and N. Gaffney, Dust & Shadow Reader #2, FoAM, 2019. https://fo.am/publications/dust-shadow-reader-2/

  • R. Kirschner and K. Franinović, ”Interacting in Entangled Environments” in Not at Your Service: Design Manifestos, Eds. B. Franke and H. Matter, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2020

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Take a walk through the city of Zurich and develop new ways of observation. A set of sensing and sketching exercises can provide an in-depth understanding of urban space, its infrastructures and interactions, and thus is the basis for a multisensory and people-centered design.

Exercise 1. Sound Postcards

The groups of four to five participants walk to an urban area chosen by the group. At the location, they close their eyes and listen to their surroundings for five minutes. The leader of the group keeps the time and the security of the others in the group. After the silent and blinded observation, each person creates a visual representation of sounds and soundscape they heard in an A5 format (or a notebook page). After approximately five to ten minutes, the participants share their visual annotations and describe what they have perceived.

Exercise 2. Awareness

Focus visually on one thing in the environment and stay with it for 5 minutes. Don’t move your eyes to other things in your surroundings. Sketch and write down what you saw and felt.

Exercise 3. Relations

Look at all the other things in the environment and see how they related to your thing from the previous exercise. Draw at least 3-5 relations and describe how they relate to the thing you were focusing on.

Session 4: Ecological Thinking / Interaction : Theory in the Field

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28. September 2020.

time: 13.00am - 17.00pm
location: Zurich outdoors

Topics : affordances, embodiment, enactive interactioninteraction…

  • Gibson, J.J.  (1986). The Theory of Affordances. In Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
    GibsonJ-The-Theory-of-Affordances.pdf

  • Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2009).The concept of flow. In Snyder, C. R., & Lopez, S. J. (Ed.). Oxford handbook of positive psychology. Oxford University Press, USA. 89-105

  • Noë, A. (2010). Du bist nicht Dein Gehirn. Eine radikale Philosophie des Bewusstseins. München: Piper Verlag, München. Noe_DubistnichtdeinGehirn.pdf

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Exercise 4. Sensorial Ecologies

Move through an urban area and observe how its elements interact between each other.

Sketch and describe sensorial ecologies :

  • soundscape of the area

  • lightscape of the area

  • microclimate of the area (temperature/humidity/smells…)

Describe how you (or another single person) interact with those ecologies.

Exercise 5. Social Ecologies

Observe an area and how people interact with their surroundings and each other.

Develop and describe its social ecologies through:

  1. Flow map (movement of people in space, grouping, body positions).

  2. Attractor map: Describe and sketch social attractors (where/how people can isolate? where/how do people gather? for how long? why?) Describe and sketch spatial attractors (what attracts people and what rejects them?)

Session 5: Inter-Action

5. October 2020.

time: 10.30am 30 - 12.30pm30
location: Zoom

Topics : digital, analog, digitalisation, inter-action

  • Franinovic, K. ”Inter-Action/Inter-Acting” in Handbuch Künstlerische Forschung, Ed. J. Badura, A. Haarmann and S. Dubach. Diaphanes, 2015.

Session 6: What is the meaning of „active“ in living beings and materials?

9. October 2020.

time: 11.00am - 13:30
location: Zoom

Panel: Khashayar Rhazghandi, Michael Hirschbichler, Karmen Franinovic, Andreas Gehrlach

Coworking Materials conference, Linz

http://www.ifk.ac.at/index.php/kalender-detail/coworking-materials-fuer-einen-aktiven-materialismus.html

Topics : action, active materials, intentionality, meshwork

Session 7: Otherness

12. October 2020.

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time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom

QuestionsTopics: acting, leveraging, ecosystems, biosphere, sustainability

  • Meadows, D. Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, Hartland: The Sustainability Inst. 1999.

  • K. Franinović and R. Kirschner, “Microbiospherians: Leveraging Microbes in Biosphere 2”, Journal of Performance Research, Vol. 25, No. 3: „On Microperformativity“ Routledge, 2020.

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time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom

Topics: Life-Centred Design, Transitional Design, Planet-Centred Design

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