The Interaction Design Process class is happy to propose this month a series of 3 conversations around the vast array of non-human centric / interspecies / otherness design. Our 3 guests are all part of the Critical Ecologies group of Shared Campus (see abstract & bios below).
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
10:30-11:30 (CET)
"Supra Systems Studio/Ideas for Humanity: A Cookbook for Planetary Health"
Conversation with Eva Verhoeven, Supra Systems Studio, London College of Communication, UAL
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
13:00-14:00 (CET)
“Many-headed: Co-creating with the Collective”
Conversation with Heather Barnett, Art & Living Systems Lab, Central Saint Martins, UAL
Thursday, 22 April 2021 (tbc)
13:00-14:00 (CET)
title tba
Conversation with Patricia Ribault, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris & Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Zoom access for all three conversations:
https://zhdk.zoom.us/j/9245333120?pwd=dTlXK1c3NmUrbDJnWVI5STNlRlYxZz09
Password: 4WZGf8
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Detailed Information
https://shared-campus.com/themes/critical-ecologies/teaching-exchange/conversations/conversations-2021-non-human-centric-approaches/
"Supra Systems Studio/Ideas for Humanity: A Cookbook for Planetary Health"
Conversation with Eva Verhoeven, Supra Systems Studio, London College of Communication, UAL
Abstract
The Global Design Studio (GDS) is an online intensive project that introduces students and staff to transnational and transdisciplinary practices and collaboration, situated in pluralistic and global ways of designing together whilst exploring subject-driven opportunities for online learning. This year 70 students and 8 staff from three different institutions (UAL/LCC, RMIT and Elisava) worked together on Ideas for Humanity, A Cookbook for Planetary Health.
This year the Studio continued to address non-trivial issues that connect participants in different parts of the world through a concern for planetary health and more than simply survival. We looked at the documented risks to our interconnected ecologies and collectively aimed to offer more than preventative measures - instead looking to positive futures made possible through knowledge sharing and design as a means of action.
https://www.gds-ideas.com
Eva Verhoeven is an artist, designer and researcher. She is the co-founder of Supra Systems Studio, a research machine in the Design School at LCC, UAL where she works as a Programme Director for Interaction Design & Visual Communication.
Eva is interested in the consequences of technological developments and its relays into society and culture and investigates computational culture through design research. A current focus is the scope of post-human centred design and a renewed interest in the materiality of the digital within the context of the Anthropocene.
Eva co-organises events and conferences, for example speculative life-coding events at the Piksel Festival (for free/libre & open audiovisual software, hardware, and art) in Bergen, Norway, London's first Maker Faire at LCC and Supra System Studio exhibitions as part of the London Design Festival. She has exhibited and presented her work and research nationally and internationally (Los Angeles, New York, Istanbul, Norway and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
Supra Systems Studio uses critical & creative practice to conduct urgent investigations & demonstrations at intersections of ecological, political, & technical systems.
https://www.suprasystems.studio
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"Many-headed: Co-creating with the Collective"
Conversation with Heather Barnett, Art & Living Systems Lab, Central Saint Martins, UAL
Artist Heather Barnett works with natural phenomena and emergent systems. Employing live organisms, imaging technologies and playful pedagogies, her work explores how we observe, influence and understand multi-species ecosystems. Combining disciplinary methods from art and science, participatory art and practical philosophy, Barnett will share recent work made in ‘collaboration’ with a range of organisms including slime moulds, ants and humans. Her work aims to tease and test our definitions of agency, hierarchy and collective intelligence.
Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with living systems. Recent work centres around nonhuman intelligence, collective behaviour and systems for co-enquiry and knowledge distribution, including The Physarum Experiments, an ongoing enquiry with an intelligent slime mould, interventions with an ant colony in Almeria, and Animal Collectives collaborative research with the SHOAL Group at Swansea University where she is an Honorary Research Fellow. Heather is Pathway Leader on the MA Art and Science and Convenor of the Art & Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and founding member of The Slime Mould Collective (http://slimoco.ning.com/).
Links:
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/heather-barnett
http://heatherbarnett.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/HeatherABarnett
https://www.instagram.com/artandlivingsystems/
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Conversation with Patricia Ribault, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris & Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Patricia Ribault will strengthen teaching and research in the Department of Theory and History at weißensee school of art and design berlin from the summer semester 2020.
The new professor for »Performative Design Research« was most recently Junior Professor for History and Theory of Gestaltung at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the HUB. She was involved in the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung«, the forerunner of »Matters of Activity«, for which she is also a Principal Investigator.
Patricia Ribault started her career in design, ceramics and glassblowing and her research interests cover the fields of design, craft, art, body, work, technology, industry. Since 2011 she has also been leading a master's seminar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.
