Negotiating Futures - Design Fiction
Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference addresses the questions of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of possible new futures is negotiated and realized.
Thursday, October 28, 2010: Junior Research Conference.
Program for Swiss MA Design Students.
Friday, October 29, 2010: Negotiating Futures
The first conference day focuses on the multiple interrelations between fact and fiction and their heterogeneous modes of creation and reflection along different scientific disciplines and fields of design (e.g. film, industrial design, and fashion design). Key notes include a theoretical physicist (Ruth Durrer), a design theorist (Alexandra Midal) and a designer. Host speaker: Flavia Caviezel. Moderator: Martin Heller.
Saturday, October 30, 2010: Design Fiction
The second conference day deals with the multiplicity of approaches to design fiction and its interplay between art and research, branding and hacking, innovation and subversion, technology and society, commercial success and cultural relevance, branding and no logo. Key notes include James Auger, Julian Bleecker and Franz Liebl. Host speaker: Simon Grand. Moderator: Martin Heller.
