Virtual Colloquium: Irem Tekogul, PhD – “Radical Hope, Vital Futures: Care-ful Reorientations in Design”

We are joined on this Thursday, May 28th, at 17:30h by Irem Tekogul, PhD for a presentation titled “Radical Hope, Vital Futures: Care-ful Reorientations in Design” as part of the Virtual Colloquium at the Berlin University of the Arts. As precarity intensifies and “there will be no future” becomes the cultural vision, designers face a critical question: how can we re-orient practice toward hopeful, caring futures? This talk reframes hope not as passive wishing but as a politics of collective action, and draws on feminist care ethics to propose “vital futures”: futures preoccupied with repairing and maintaining our world. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an R&D lab, it critically examines whose hopes shape future visions and how design practices can cultivate care and radical hope to catalyze systemic change.

Irem Tekogul is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University. She received her Ph.D. in Design from the IIT Institute of Design, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Her research sits at the intersections of design futures, systemic design, and care ethics, with a focus on participatory approaches to societal challenges and pathways for systems change.

Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1

Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532