Description
The Royal College of Art, in collaboration with Design for Good, welcome you to this free masterclass webinar series, as part of an exciting new initiative: the RCA x Design for Good Academy.How can design create systems of care, collaboration, and reciprocity with more than the human world?
Prof Ron Wakkary's book Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds (MIT Press) explores alternative perspectives that challenge human-centeredness, encouraging designers to think beyond human agency and embrace the complexity of interactions in the more-than-human world.
Looking at more than human design from a systemic viewpoint, this conversation with Ron and RCA School of Design academics and researchers Dr Rob Phillips (ESRC Ecological Citizens, designer of Where The Light Gets In, author of Future-kind, and contributor to My Naturewatch Camera) and Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar (ESRC/AHRC Becoming Regenerative) addresses how to acknowledge the interconnectedness of humans and non-humans as a foundation for design.
Ron Wakkary is a Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Canada, where he is the founder of the Everyday Design Studio. In addition, he is a part-time Professor in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wakkary’s research investigates the changing nature of design in response to new understandings of human-technology relations, multi-species worlds and posthumanism.
The RCA x Design for Good Academy aims to empower experienced professional designers with the knowledge and skills to create solutions that address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
| Period | 10 Dec 2024 |
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| Event type | Seminar |