Bootcamp
Syllabus⇝
The MDEF Bootcamp is landing and setup workshop that will introduce students to the main ambitions of the master program. The boot camp format will allow students to familiarize themselves with the physical spaces where the program will operate and experiment (classroom, lab, and neighborhood), as well as provide the initial tools to document and share their progress during their studies at IAAC.
From Wikipedia: “Boot camps can be governmental being part of the correctional and penal system of some countries. Modeled after military recruit training camps, these programs are based on shock incarceration grounded on military techniques. “
Do not panic: IAAC is not a correctional facility! And we will only use the best of the boot camp format to facilitate the learning process and the adaptation of the students to the program and the available facilities.
Deliverables⇝
Define your future you. Identify your possible areas of interest. Embed the Design for Emergent Futures culture.
Assignment: Write a 1000 word essay about your expectations for the coming 9 months in Barcelona.
Bibliography⇝
Speculative Everything Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Adversarial Design Carl DiSalvo
Massive Change Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard and Institute without Boundaries
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change Victor Papanek
Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman
Who Owns the Future? Jason Lanier
This Changes Everything Naomi Klein
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov
Democratizing Innovation Eric Von Hippel
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Michael Braungart, William McDonough
Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World Jeremy Rifkin
Additional Resources⇝
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.
Multimedia developer, interaction designer & researcher, Mariana Quintero works and develops her practice at the intersection where digital fabrication technologies, digital literacy, and information and computation ethics & aesthetics meet, contributing to projects that investigate how digital information and technologies translate, represent, and mediate knowledge about the world. She is currently a faculty member and part of the strategic team at the Masters in Design for Emergent Futures at IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona.