CMU Seminar III Advanced Interaction & Service Design Concepts + Design Theory & Practice // Fall 2020

Plurality in Practice — December 8, 2020

Today’s class was the product of a semester-long planning process. Four teams…

December 1st — Futures of Design Education

The final class in this seminar focused on futures of design education. Or as Dan put…

November 24th — Metafutures

“Futurism may not provide a flawless roadmap of the future, but it sharpens focus on likely outcomes, forces…

November 17th — Futurisms and Futures of Design

A world cafe format discussion of the future.

This post will recap the world cafe style discussion of futurisms and futures of design.

November 10th — Sustainability as Praxis // Future Trash

November 7th — Election Day conversation

Given that class fell on Election Day in the United States, we took a slightly different approach than a normal session.

Rather than a session based on readings and activities, the time was instead spent in conversation with two…

October 27 — Sustainability?

“What color is sustainability?”

October 20th — Research x Design Part 3

This was the third and final session in Dan’s Research x Design Module. If you missed Part…

October 13th — Research x Design Part 2

Having assembled preliminary research plans in Miro (template link) after last week’s class, students were paired into breakout rooms to give and receive feedback.

October 6th — Research x Design Part 1

After reflecting on the last of the class’s Exquisite Corpse recordings, this class focused…

September 29th — Knowing, Sensing, Participating and Designing Otherwise

This week’s discussion focused on the connections between students’ research/thesis topics and the readings for Module 1: Politics, Ethics, and the Pluriverse.

Exquisite Corpse Exercise

Following September 15th’s class focused on Cosmotechnics, we formed three groups to assemble exquisite corpses…

September 22 — Pluriverse — “A world of many worlds”

We were fortunate to be joined this week by Dr. Ahmed Ansari, a professor at New York University’s Integrated Digital Media program and researcher on topics including “critical design studies and history, postcolonial and decolonial…

September 15th — Cosmotechnics

Discussion Resources

This week’s seminar discussion centered around three resources (links accessible to CMU students):

1. Tao Ruspoli, “Being in the World” (Video)
2. Yuk Hui, Cosmotechnics…

September 8th — Group Agreements & Material Politics

Group Agreements