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Design and Conflict / Block Seminar (English / 4 SWS / 5 ECTS)

Dates: 04.-07.10.2022, 10:00-17:00 / 10.-12.10.2022, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by emails by latest the 01.06.2022 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (TU/UdK Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Description:

What is the relation between design and conflict? From armed conflicts and environmental strifes, to anti-gender regimes and increasingly socially disrupted societies – what role might design and technology play in all of this? How are conflicts designed – and how do current modes of design activism assist in subverting unjust systems of power?   

When observing design emerging in conflict situations – be it the re-use of phone credits as currency, DIY drones to monitor conflicts zones, open-source radical servers to construct alternative communication networks or the building of radio-transmitters out of electronic trash: Designing in times of conflict oftentimes involves a high level of improvisation. It exposes things that emerge out of dire circumstances, are made under strong limitations, and that incite Bottom-Up alternative infrastructures for and by those who need them the most.

In this block seminar, we will take a closer look at the topic of design as, against and in times of conflict. Bringing together insights from Conflict- and Design Research, we will locate the intersections and exemplify them on real-world examples, and on your own experiences. Drawing on low-tech open-source alternative tech, we will carry out a series of design experiments that explore and further develop the idea of ‘doing a lot with a little’ (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Modules:

   •   BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich

   •   Lehrveranstaltungen für alle Studierenden der Fakultät

   •   This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective

Design and Conflict / Block Seminar (English / 4 SWS / 5 ECTS)

Dates: 04.-07.10.2022, 10:00-17:00 / 10.-12.10.2022, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by emails by latest the 01.06.2022 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (TU/UdK Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Description:

What is the relation between design and conflict? From armed conflicts and environmental strifes, to anti-gender regimes and increasingly socially disrupted societies – what role might design and technology play in all of this? How are conflicts designed – and how do current modes of design activism assist in subverting unjust systems of power?   

When observing design emerging in conflict situations – be it the re-use of phone credits as currency, DIY drones to monitor conflicts zones, open-source radical servers to construct alternative communication networks or the building of radio-transmitters out of electronic trash: Designing in times of conflict oftentimes involves a high level of improvisation. It exposes things that emerge out of dire circumstances, are made under strong limitations, and that incite Bottom-Up alternative infrastructures for and by those who need them the most.

In this block seminar, we will take a closer look at the topic of design as, against and in times of conflict. Bringing together insights from Conflict- and Design Research, we will locate the intersections and exemplify them on real-world examples, and on your own experiences. Drawing on low-tech open-source alternative tech, we will carry out a series of design experiments that explore and further develop the idea of ‘doing a lot with a little’ (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Modules:

   •   BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich

   •   Lehrveranstaltungen für alle Studierenden der Fakultät

   •   This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective

Studio Class – Politics of Machines (English / 4 SWS / 6 ECTS)

Dates: Tuesdays 10:00-13:30 / Introduction: 19.04.2022

Registration: Please register by the 15.04.2022 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Einstein Center Digital Future, Wilhelmstraße 67, 10117 Berlin

Description:

In a state of ‘ontological crisis’, all boundaries between human and machine, nature and culture, and the organic and inorganic have been severely blurred. These are times of curious contrivances, novel natures, inescapable automation and posthuman performances – where human and nonhuman find themselves being entwined, meshed and muddled into new unwitting entanglements. But from biased machine-learning to surveillance capitalism and digital colonisation – what power-structures are implicitly and covertly being embedded into these technologies? When are we still at the centre of the social algorithm, and when do we become extensions of the extensions that we built? Do we have to raise a discussion about political systems of things – about ‘ubiquitous capitalism’, ‘algorithmic aristocracy’ or ‘object-mediated democracy’?

In this studio class we will discuss ethical, social and political implications of technology with a focus on ‘automation’ versus ‘autonomy’. We will practice and formulate critical perspectives on the politics of machines, discovering novel phenomena and shadowing the material regimes of power that we ourselves live within – hindering and compromising personal devices and thus conducts, in order to uncover latent power structures embedded in everyday life. Furthermore, drawing on the approaches of research-through-design and critical making, we will prototype possibilities and provocations, integrating critical thinking and designing (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Modules:

   •   BA-KulT IS 4 (Text und Wissen)

   •   BA-KulT IS 5 (Modernisierung)

   •   BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Design and Computation (Wahlpflichtbereich III: Design, Technologie und soziale Prozesse)

   •   Technikfolgenabschätzung, Technikreflexion, Technikbewertung (Berliner Ethik Zertifikat)

   •   This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective

Design and Conflict / Block Seminar (English / 4 SWS / 5 ECTS)

Dates: 04.-07.10.2022, 10:00-17:00 / 10.-12.10.2022, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by emails by latest the 01.06.2022 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (TU/UdK Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Description:

What is the relation between design and conflict? From armed conflicts and environmental strifes, to anti-gender regimes and increasingly socially disrupted societies – what role might design and technology play in all of this? How are conflicts designed – and how do current modes of design activism assist in subverting unjust systems of power?   

When observing design emerging in conflict situations – be it the re-use of phone credits as currency, DIY drones to monitor conflicts zones, open-source radical servers to construct alternative communication networks or the building of radio-transmitters out of electronic trash: Designing in times of conflict oftentimes involves a high level of improvisation. It exposes things that emerge out of dire circumstances, are made under strong limitations, and that incite Bottom-Up alternative infrastructures for and by those who need them the most.

In this block seminar, we will take a closer look at the topic of design as, against and in times of conflict. Bringing together insights from Conflict- and Design Research, we will locate the intersections and exemplify them on real-world examples, and on your own experiences. Drawing on low-tech open-source alternative tech, we will carry out a series of design experiments that explore and further develop the idea of ‘doing a lot with a little’ (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Modules:

   •   BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich

   •   Lehrveranstaltungen für alle Studierenden der Fakultät

   •   This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective

Design and Conflict / Block Seminar (English / 4 SWS / 5 ECTS)

Dates: 04.-07.10.2022, 10:00-17:00 / 10.-12.10.2022, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by emails by latest the 01.06.2022 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (TU/UdK Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Description:

What is the relation between design and conflict? From armed conflicts and environmental strifes, to anti-gender regimes and increasingly socially disrupted societies – what role might design and technology play in all of this? How are conflicts designed – and how do current modes of design activism assist in subverting unjust systems of power?   

When observing design emerging in conflict situations – be it the re-use of phone credits as currency, DIY drones to monitor conflicts zones, open-source radical servers to construct alternative communication networks or the building of radio-transmitters out of electronic trash: Designing in times of conflict oftentimes involves a high level of improvisation. It exposes things that emerge out of dire circumstances, are made under strong limitations, and that incite Bottom-Up alternative infrastructures for and by those who need them the most.

In this block seminar, we will take a closer look at the topic of design as, against and in times of conflict. Bringing together insights from Conflict- and Design Research, we will locate the intersections and exemplify them on real-world examples, and on your own experiences. Drawing on low-tech open-source alternative tech, we will carry out a series of design experiments that explore and further develop the idea of ‘doing a lot with a little’ (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Modules:

   •   BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich

   •   Lehrveranstaltungen für alle Studierenden der Fakultät

   •   This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective

Design and Conflict / Block Seminar (English / 4 SWS / 5 ECTS)

Dates: 04.-07.10.2022, 10:00-17:00 / 10.-12.10.2022, 10:00-17:00

Registration: Please register by emails by latest the 01.06.2022 to: michelle.christensen@tu-berlin.de and florian.conradi@tu-berlin.de

Participants: Max. 15 participants

Room: Berlin Open Lab (TU/UdK Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Description:

What is the relation between design and conflict? From armed conflicts and environmental strifes, to anti-gender regimes and increasingly socially disrupted societies – what role might design and technology play in all of this? How are conflicts designed – and how do current modes of design activism assist in subverting unjust systems of power?   

When observing design emerging in conflict situations – be it the re-use of phone credits as currency, DIY drones to monitor conflicts zones, open-source radical servers to construct alternative communication networks or the building of radio-transmitters out of electronic trash: Designing in times of conflict oftentimes involves a high level of improvisation. It exposes things that emerge out of dire circumstances, are made under strong limitations, and that incite Bottom-Up alternative infrastructures for and by those who need them the most.

In this block seminar, we will take a closer look at the topic of design as, against and in times of conflict. Bringing together insights from Conflict- and Design Research, we will locate the intersections and exemplify them on real-world examples, and on your own experiences. Drawing on low-tech open-source alternative tech, we will carry out a series of design experiments that explore and further develop the idea of ‘doing a lot with a little’ (no prior experience with design or technology necessary).

Modules:

   •   BA-Studiengänge Kultur und Technik Freier Wahlbereich

   •   MA Geistes- und bildungswissenschaftliche Masterstudiengänge Freier Wahlbereich

   •   Lehrveranstaltungen für alle Studierenden der Fakultät

   •   This studio class is open to students of all all disciplines and levels at all Berlin universities in the framework of a free elective