Design Dialogues
Syllabus⇝
Design Dialogues will expose the work of the first term by students and faculty in the Master in Design for Emergent Futures. Avoiding linear discourses, the format of the sessions will be driven by conversations and debate around the areas of interest researched by the MDEF students, and their articulation with emergent future scenarios to be worked out in following terms.
The content that students present in the exhibition format should be able reflect, no matter in which medium or combination of media students choose to present it (video, prints, prototypes, story-telling, performance…):
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A clear area of interest that you chose, and how the journey has been to get there.
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The state of the art and references in your chosen field that you have researched and looked into throughout the term.
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The possible future scenarios of this area and where it finds possible areas of intervention, using speculative approaches.
Faculty⇝
Tomas Diez Ladera, a Venezuelan Urbanist, Designer, and Technologist, is known for his expertise in digital fabrication and its impact on future cities and society. He is a founding partner and executive director of the Fab City Foundation, and he also serves on the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s board of trustees, where he holds positions as a senior researcher and tutor. He actively collaborates with the Fab Foundation to support the global Fab Lab Network and has played a significant role in launching initiatives such as the Fab Academy and Fab City.
Tomas co-founded and co-designed projects like the Smart Citizen initiative and the global Fab Lab Network platform, fablabs.io. Additionally, he co-created higher degree programs, including the Master in Design for Emergent Futures (IAAC-Elisava) and the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation (Fab City-IAAC), both of which he co-directs. As a founding partner and President-Director of the Meaningful Design Group Bali, he aims to combine advanced technologies and design with alternative perspectives and cultures in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He has received recognition as a young innovator of the year by the Catalan ICT Association and was nominated as one of Nesta's and The Guardian's top 10 Social Innovators in Europe.
Oscar Tomico is associate professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology on Design Research Methodologies for Posthuman Sustainability. His research revolves around 1st Person Perspectives to Research through Design at different scales (bodies, communities and socio-technical systems). Ranging from developing embodied ideation techniques for close or on the body applications (e.g. soft wearables), contextualized design interventions to situate design practice in everyday life, exploring the impact of future local, distributed, open and circular socio-technical systems of production, or experimenting with cohabitation as a posthuman approach to multi-species design.