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Virtual Colloquium: Beyond Borders. Digital Inequalities and Systemic Change

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20 Oct 2022 – 16 Feb 2023

A class in cooperation with HBK Braunschweig, MA Transformation Design

Beyond borders: Digital inequalities and systemic change

How can we shift from higher, faster, further to sustainable, fair and inclusive? While facing global crises and great threats to the living planet, we realize more and more that we have to change the system. But what do we mean by system? We want to address harmful systems like digital capitalism, in order to explore their impact and find ways to overcome them. We will be looking at forms of resistance, forms of collaboration, ways of fostering local practices, changing conditions, alternative technologies and modes of production in a postdigital and postgrowth era. In this colloquium, we will invite international guest speakers to talk about their views and practices. Based on this, we will engage in debates about the role of design in conceiving new systems and discuss our own opportunities and responsibilities for taking action.


For our colloquium we invite perspectives of various actors from different parts of the globe in order to better understand the full scope of sustainable transformations of our societies, while considering quite different approaches, affordances as well as social and cultural implications. Together we want to reflect on our role as students, teachers, scholars and as the university.

Sessions

20.10.2022Bianca Herlo & Ben Siegler – Opening Session

27.10.2022

Zainab Marvi – Feminist Practices as Urban Resistence 

03.11.2022

Susanna Hertrich – Following the Elephant-Nosed Fish. Reimaging our Sensorium

10.11.2022

Felix Kosok – An Outrageous Spectacle. On the Politics of Style in Design

17.11.2022

Sandra Stark & Joe Lockwood – Practicing Curiosity

24.11.2022

Joseph La Delfa – How to Train Your Drone
01.12.2022
Liene Ozolina – Art and Activism for Beginners: Socially Engaged Art in Post-Socialist Neoliberalism

08.12.2022

Aisha Kadiri – Data Sovereignty and Data Colonialism
15.12.2022
Gilberto Vieira – Data Activism for New Commons in Latin America

05.01.2023

Sandra Groll (Systems Theorist and Designer) – Design’s Contribution to a Society of Crisis

12.01.2023

Nakeema Stefflbauer – The Tech We Want – and How To Get It  

19.01.2023

Francisco Martinez – Staying with the Hole: Regimes of Invisibility and Temporal Agency in Eastern Estonia

26.01.2023

Feher Bori – Design as a Form of Collaboration for Attitude Change

02.02.2023

Aeneas Stankowski – Low-Code or No-Code Machine Learning Tools

09.02.2023

Anna Litvinenko – Re-defining Borders Online: Russian Concept of Internet Sovereignty in the Context of Global Internet Governance

16.02.2023

Bianca Herlo & Ben Siegler – Closing Session

To register for the Colloquium, please fill out this form.