dear friends and colleagues,
some details here about a pair of Goldsmiths Design Festival <http://golddesignfest.co.uk/> events, which explore the empirical treatment of speculative and critical design (SCD).
A morning symposium brings together an international group of doctoral students and researchers who are challenging popular and rhetorical modes of writing about SCD. Join a discussion about a range issues that impinge upon their practice, including patient experience, upstream engagement and colonialism.
An afternoon session takes fertility management as the focus for a participatory workshop. Unboxing Contraception follows the trail of contraceptive medications - pills, implants, teas - in order to encourage actors to collectively discuss and theorize design’s role in the construction of gender identities.
All are very welcome, please book a free place using the links below. Details of times and venues are included below.
Speculation as Design Research <http://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculation-as-design-research-tickets-18432106928>
Unboxing Contraception: Pills and the Politics of Gender <http://www.eventbrite.com/e/unboxing-contraception-pills-and-the-politics-of-gender-tickets-18432182153>
Be sure to explore the full Festival programme <http://golddesignfest.co.uk/programme/>.
best wishes,
Tobie Kerridge
Full details:
Speculation as Design Research
Tobie Kerridge, Max Mollon, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Alison Thomson
While speculative and critical design (SCD) approaches have been written about extensively, there is scope to develop empirically robust accounts of these practices as a form of design research.
This symposium brings together an international group of students and researchers who are challenging popular and rhetorical modes of writing about SCD by responding to issues that impinge upon their practice, including patient experience, upstream engagement and colonialism.
Symposium
Friday 4th September, 10:00 - 13:00
LG02, Professor Stuart Hall Building
Unboxing Contraception: Pills and the Politics of Gender
Luiza Prado de O. Martins
Unboxing Contraception is one of a series of conversation pieces - performative workshops that combine speculative design methods and decolonial, feminist and counterhegemonic methods in order to promote discussion, exchange and reflection on the future of disenfranchised and oppressed subjects.
Unboxing Contraception deals, specifically, with the complex issue of fertility management, highlighting how design systems are capable of enacting a type of neo-colonial domination over queer bodies.
The workshop follows the trail of contraceptive medications - pills, implants, teas - in order to encourage actors to collectively discuss and theorize design’s role in the construction of gender identities, and how these constructed identities may change according to the geopolitical structures in which they are situated.
Workshop
Friday 4th September, 15:00 - 17:30
Room 2, 13 Laurie Grove
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