Faculty: Amy Franceschini + Daniele Lupo / Design Research – Prof. Alastair Fuad-Luke
(Image: MUF Art/Design: Broadway Estate Community Garden Tilbury 2005)
Research through Design, Exploration and Experimentation
Project 3 occurs in the second year of the Masters in Eco-Social Design program. This third semester marks a significant shift from group work and professor-driven projects to a more focused period of research and development of projects that students imagine, guide and realize. We invite “active research” connected to a deep reflective process that includes documentation, literary references and dynamic modes of presenting work at various phases of its development. Three thematic threads guide a series of assignments, presentations, guests and small workshops:
- Co-Creation / Collective Intelligence
- Experimental Ethnography
- Critical Material Thinking
Guests: Livia Cahn, Anthropologist, BE, Myriel Milicevic, Interaction designer, Professor, Design Postdam University, Germany, Michael Obrist, Architect, feld72 architeten, Vienna, Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, NY, Noah Murphy-Reinhertz, Director, Sustainability Lab, Nike, Ernst Karel, Artist and Faculty, Sensory Ethnography, Harvard University, Roberta Raffaeta, Anthropologist, University of Bologna-Rimini, Department of Cultural Heritage, Nina Bassoli, Architect, Faculty, Free University Bozen, Alessandro Narduzzo, Innovation and strategy UNIBZ, Fernando Garcia Dory, Artist/Agroecologist and Anna Bernagozzi, Professor of Design Theory and hHistory at the EnsAD – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Newsletter:
A Newsletter functions as a through-line for Project 3 research. Every two weeks, a one-page format designed to present findings, curiosities, concerns related to the thesis project is presented .Reading groups are formed to discuss content (in pre-corona times reading groups were held in a public space in Bolzano). Examples of content: interviews, quotes, drawings, advertisements, statistics, commissioned content, gossip, want-ads, obituary, crossword puzzles, riddles, statistics, announcements… This can be fictionalized, purely informational or a combination of both.
A Peek into some of the projects in development:
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Caterina Laruccia
More-than-human Body: Performative-oriented research about reciprocity
between humans and nature.
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Vanessa Deotto
Memorie Terrene: New alternatives + approaches to encourage the act of
remaining in abandoned lands.
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Nicholas Rapagnani
Foot Print:
Investigating sneakers’ ecological and sociological future.
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Andrea Gaidano + Damiano Fantin
Torto: An exploratory quest through Bolzano’s Casa Circondariale.
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Merve Bektas
Multi*poiesis explores the multiple ways of living, being, and making with a more-than-human-world through participatory actions by co-learning, co-creating, and co-designing.
It investigates the notion of ‘design for multispecies’ by enhancing the multi-practices that are interactive and mutually beneficial both for human and non-human entities by catalyzing alter-structures with a permaculture community in Sicily.
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Lis Evers
Dance: in.resonance: Creating inner stillness in work life through a poetic approach to dance.
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Maria Pasqualini
Radical Fashion: An exploration of the relationship between people and their clothes, aiming to generate an alternative circulation of clothes between teenagers.
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