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On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:36 AM Audrey Desjardins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> It is our pleasure to invite you to an upcoming symposium titled 'Design
> Trouble'.
>
> Together with my colleagues Daniela Rosner, Afroditi Psarra, Phillip
> Thurtle and Sareeta Amrute, we invite you to join us in reflecting on
> design through the lenses of activism, ordinary ethics, decolonization, and
> the nonhuman.
>
> The event will take place April 3 and 4, 2019, at University of Washington.
>
> For more info: http://designtrouble.uw.edu/
> To register:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-trouble-tickets-55104884192
>
> More:
> Fueled by the promise for innovation and social change, university design
> programs are more popular than ever. Within the academy, design has
> infiltrated not only the arts, where it has had considerable influence and
> longevity, but also departments of engineering and business where it
> promotes widespread forms of economic development and entrepreneurship.
> This narrative of empowerment through commerce brings with it underlying
> disjunctures between design’s rhetoric of plurality and the power
> structures design tends to reinforce. By separating their work of imaging
> futures from production work on the factory floor, and by reinforcing the
> idea that certain people and not others are more suited to the
> world-building activity associated with design, designers often further
> entrench the racial and socioeconomic inequalities they often seek to
> upend.
>
> But how can we — as scholars, activists, artists, designers, engineers,
> etc. — imagine and do otherwise with and through design? What other pasts
> and futures might we open, narrate or recover? How might we shift the
> practice of design to focus on what has previously been marginalized or
> made invisible?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Audrey, Daniela, Afroditi, Phillip and Sareeta
>
> [image: Design-Trouble-FLIER-03-full.jpg]
>
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> Audrey Desjardins, PhD
> Assistant Professor, Interaction Design
>
> School of Art + Art History + Design
> University of Washington
> Art Building Room 255
> 4000 15th Ave NE
> Seattle, Washington USA 98195-3440
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