ASC Series Season 3#5 - FRICTIONS, FICTIONS
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Jan 13, 2023, 6:52:15 AM1/13/23
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ASC Series Season 3#5 - Frictions, Fictions
Dulmini Perera is a lecturer and researcher at Bauhaus University Weimar. She works at the intersection of design theory and systems/cybernetics research. Her current DFG funded research focuses on the complex relations between ecological questions and questions concerning technology. She experiments with playful contra-practices that enable better ways of engaging the multiple entangled crises of the present.
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Jan 22, 2023 | 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST
In this session, I will look at the complex ways cybernetics, design and fictions interrelate around questions of ecological complexity and modern technology.
Abstract
Gregory Bateson reminded us that living systems of all kinds share stories. Through his explorations of the complexity of living systems, primarily in terms of communication and learning, he pointed out how stories extend the patterns acquired within different learning contexts. Such a framework invites us to rethink how stories of design are entangled in problematic stories around modernity, technology, and progress. More specifically, I will focus on several questions, turning to the story of cybernetics' encounter with design practices and my own practice story.
In what ways would a rethink of the idea of 'fictioning' enable ways to reconsider the question of the 'transcontextual,' often left out in design's well-meaning attempts to mitigate problems in selected contexts, thereby mobilising technologies that paradoxically reinforce specific underlying causes of the crisis? Would such an approach enable a different way of engaging 'the plural,' given that 'gathering the plural' is not a given and the politics of democratic participation or choice remains problematic in many contexts? How would such a project enable working within and against the runaway aspects of uncritical uses of technologies that gain accelerating power?
A short presentation would follow by a dialogue with Dr.Frederick Steier.
Participants Bios:
In what ways would a rethink of the idea of 'fictioning' enable ways to reconsider the question of the 'transcontextual,' often left out in design's well-meaning attempts to mitigate problems in selected contexts, thereby mobilising technologies that paradoxically reinforce specific underlying causes of the crisis? Would such an approach enable a different way of engaging 'the plural,' given that 'gathering the plural' is not a given and the politics of democratic participation or choice remains problematic in many contexts? How would such a project enable working within and against the runaway aspects of uncritical uses of technologies that gain accelerating power?
A short presentation would follow by a dialogue with Dr.Frederick Steier.
Participants Bios:
Dulmini Perera is a lecturer and researcher at Bauhaus University Weimar. She works at the intersection of design theory and systems/cybernetics research. Her current DFG funded research focuses on the complex relations between ecological questions and questions concerning technology. She experiments with playful contra-practices that enable better ways of engaging the multiple entangled crises of the present.
Papers / Links:
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American Society for Cybernetics
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