Description
Speakers:Emilia Tikka
Alice Jarry
Kristina Lindström
Camilla Anderson
Julia Lohmann
Florian Sprenger
Aylin Tschoepe
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Johanna Mehl
Clemens Winkler
Isabel Schmiedel
Christoph Engemann
Wolfgang Schäffner
Symposium organised by Dr. Martin Müller ja Dr. Lèa Perraud from the Humboldt University of Berlin as the final event for the CollActive Materials project.
How to sense the common grounds of critical humanities and design research? What could be the means for nuanced encounters of knowing and making? While the 2000s were mostly characterized by various forms of differentiation at the disciplinary level and a division of labor between academic fields, the “design turn” (2010) has sparked a vivid exchange between critical thinking and critical designing. In the meantime, the promise of making has emerged as a common denominator of basic research, which now aims at integrative design as the art of the possible. This is by no means a flight of fancy but rather a joint effort to design and negotiate possible futures through the reality of the current ecological predicament.
Our symposium asks about the “how”, foregrounding the methodologies of these speculations and projections: How to relate speculative design proposals to critical diagnoses of the present and attempts at historical speculation? How specifically can collaborative speculation in inter-and transdisciplinary contexts enable us to sense “what is in the air”? What narratives, prototypes, encounters, materials and media hold knowledge (and non-knowledge) of these scenarios? How to un/learn and un/make predominant modes of world-making by cutting across disciplines and into embodied knowledges, situated encounters and extra-academic inquiry? The symposium brings together committed researchers at the intersection of design and the humanities – for sensing and unearthing such new common grounds. As outcome we envision an experimental format that attends to the disciplinary legacies and critical futures of collaborative speculation. This will make available the different expertise, voices and practices and their specific proposals of knowing through making.
| Aikajakso | 14 marrask. 2024 |
|---|---|
| Pidetty | Humboldt University of Berlin, Saksa, Berlin |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | International |