Mesopotamia and Greek Mythos – Interdisciplinary Exploration through Performance, Space, and Poetics Blended Erasmus Workshop: Batman University (Batman/Turkiye), Thesally University (Volos/Greece), Bozen – Bolzano Free University (Bolzano/Italy) Summer Semester 25/26 This training course brings together scholars from diverse disciplines such as anthropology, architecture, literature, and cultural studies around one common theme: humanity’s connection to nature. …
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Teaching Position: ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ in Eco-Social Design
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ co-leading the ‘Project 2’ in Eco-Social Design. Here is the call. Application deadline: 05-05-2025 at 12:00 (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. Project 2 takes place in the summer …
Open Talk: From Toxic Textile Troubles to Fabulous Fibre Futures by Alexandra Fruhstorfer
28.03.2023, Tuesday, at 17:30, F4.06 Atelier, Unibz. Alexandra Fruhstorfer is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher. In her practice she questions prevalent political and cultural paradigms, while trying to embrace phenomena of accelerated technological and ecological change. Using design as a strategic, yet playful tool she aims to enable more equitable imaginaries for our material culture …
Intelligence Beyond the Human_by James Bridle about his new book Ways of Being
Wednesday 30 November, 2:30 pm Open lecture with Q&A streamed from F0.03, unibz, Bolzano–Bozen Online open lecture including a presentation from the author of Ways of Being, a book about AI, non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing, more-than-human relations, published by Penguin Books in the UK in April 2022. The lecture expands on the projects annual …
Seçil Uğur Yavuz: From the body to play design – a body-centric design project
By Design or by Disaster TALK: Tuesday, 9 March, 17:30 Zoom link In design research, there are many methods which provides designers valuable insights during the design process. These insights are generally based on qualitative or quantitative data that is collected by using various tools and probes. When designing interaction, the human body itself can become …
Matthew Lee-Smith: Designing Technological Beings_Taking a Non-Human Perspective in Design
Designing Technological Beings: Taking a Non-Human Perspective in Design Online talk: Friday 26th February, 17:00 link Towards the Realm of Materiality – TROMOpening a series of meetings, talks and workshops led by designers and artists to explore, through both the instruments of speculative design and transmedia processes, the oeuvre and the non-existing technologies imagined by …
The Toolkit for Designing Actions in Times of Multiple Crises
Based on the action outputs of 21 workshops held in the participatory online conference Beyond Crisis, Alastair Fuad-Luke and Secil Ugur Yavuz developed an opensource toolkit for Designing Actions in Times of Multiple Crises that can be used to develop an action plan by a group of actors for a particular Issue/Topic/Theme and/or Concept. Whether it is …