The major goal of this workshop series is to give participants a sense they have the capacity to learn about, critique, and challenge current socio-technological ecosystems and approach technologies from different perspectives from art, sound and future-dreaming. Foregrounding the importance of empathy and practices of care, we will discuss the effects of taking a more mindful and generous approach to the places we live, and our neighbours.
Each session will deal with a different topic: Session 1: Our world and climate change
Session 2: Listening to our city - Sonic Fiction
Session 3: What is care in technology?
Session 4: Algorithms as species in our environment
Session 5: MediaFutures
Session 6: Unmapping Collective practices for our futures
Each session will deal with a different topic: Session 1: Our world and climate change
Session 2: Listening to our city - Sonic Fiction
Session 3: What is care in technology?
Session 4: Algorithms as species in our environment
Session 5: MediaFutures
Session 6: Unmapping Collective practices for our futures
Learning Outcomes
Skills to learn
- Participants will learn how different technologies from, recognition technologies to biotechnologies work and also impact people and our environment.
- Participants will engage with methods such as speculative design, sound art, mapping techniques to learn about new collective actions for the future.
- Participants will engage and reflect on the interdependencies of our world and develop critical thinking towards new world-views and solutions .
Skills to learn
- Visual + Sonic Methods
- sound mixing, sonic fiction, collective radio, unmapping
- Design Futures
- Speculative Design and Prototyping