Design Trouble

A collaborative effort of UW Faculty Sareeta Amrute, Audrey Desjardins, Daniela Rosner, Phillip Thurttle, andAfroditi Psarra.

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Fueled by the promise for innovation and social change, university design programs are more popular than ever. Within the academy, design has infiltrated not only the arts, where it has had considerable influence and longevity, but also departments of engineering and business where it promotes widespread forms of economic development and entrepreneurship. This narrative of empowerment through commerce brings with it underlying disjunctures between design’s rhetoric of plurality and the power structures design tends to reinforce. By separating their work of imaging futures from production work on the factory floor, and by reinforcing the idea that certain people and not others are more suited to the world-building activity associated with design, designers often further entrench the racial and socioeconomic inequalities they often seek to upend.
But how can we — as scholars, activists, artists, designers, engineers, etc. — imagine and do otherwise with and through design? What other pasts and futures might we open, narrate or recover? How might we shift the practice of design to focus on what has previously been marginalized or made invisible?
Join us at <A HREF="http://designtrouble.uw.edu" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Design Trouble</A>!
 
~~~~~~~~~~ SCHEDULE ~~~~~~~~~~
 
Wednesday, April 3rd
6:00-7:30 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium or Walker Ames Room in Kane Hall.
Pre-lecture reception
7:30-9:00 p.m – Kane Hall, Room 130
Opening Panel on Memory and Place Participants: <A HREF="http://www.morehshin.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Morehshin Allahyari</A>, <A HREF="http://trinhmai.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Trinh Mai</A>, <A HREF="http://www.sarazewde.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sara Zewde</A>
Moderator: Priya Frank (Seattle Art Museum)
 
Thursday, April 4th
8:30-9:00 a.m. – Breakfast at Gould Hall Atrium
9:00-9:30 a.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Introduction from the symposium organizers
9:30-11:00 a.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Keynotes: <A HREF="https://elizabethjchin.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Elizabeth Chin</A> and <A HREF="https://anthropology.washington.edu/people/t-kalani-young" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kalani Young</A>,  followed by a combined Q&A.
11:00-11:30 a.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Coffee Break
11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Roundtable 1: Activism + Ordinary Ethics Participants: <A HREF="https://www.ggnltd.com/azzurra-cox" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Azzurra Cox</A>, <A HREF="https://www.gold.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/dattatreyan-gabriel/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gabriel Dattatreyan</A>, <A HREF="http://sites.saic.edu/mfa2018/artist/nia-easley/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nia Easley, </A><A HREF="http://www.sarazewde.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sara Zewde</A> Facilitator: <A HREF="https://datasociety.net/people/amrute-sareeta/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sareeta Amrute</A>
12:30-1:30 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Lunch
1:30-2:30 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Round Table 2: Decolonization and the Nonhuman Participants: <A HREF="https://gitomasello.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Giulia Tomasello</A>, <A HREF="https://wgss.osu.edu/people/parrenas.1" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Juno Parrenas, </A><A HREF="http://eds.siat.sfu.ca/?eds_person=doenja-oogjes" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Doenja Oogies, </A><A HREF="https://anthropology.washington.edu/people/sara-l-gonzalez" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sara Gonzalez</A> Facilitator: <A HREF="http://www.danielarosner.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Daniela Rosner</A>
2:30-2:45 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Coffee Break
2:45-4:00 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Working Session A: The Street Finds Its Own Uses, writing workshop Facilitator: <A HREF="http://www.nisishawl.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nisi Shawl</A> Introduced by <A HREF="https://gwss.washington.edu/people/regina-yung-lee" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Regina Lee</A> When writing science fiction we run low-cost thought experiments. In the spirit of the famous line from cyberpunk author William Gibson, participants will envision and describe future environments and their denizens, focusing on unexpected uses and subversive connections between the world to come and its denizens. Visual prompts provided. 
2:45-4:45 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Working Session b: Prehispanic computers and science fiction ecologies workshop Facilitator: <A HREF="https://corazonderobota.wordpress.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Constanza Piña</A> This workshop will focus on Khipu, a collaborative work that Constanza Piña has been developing over the past year which consists on fabricating and sonifying an Incan khipu. The participants will familiarize themselves with the history of khipus as an prehispanic textile technology to store information and will fabricate a device that is capable of detecting invisible electromagnetic fields.
4:45-5:00 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Coffee break
5:00-5:20pm – Gould Hall Atrium Performance: <A HREF="https://art.washington.edu/people/heidi-biggs" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Heidi Biggs </A>- Raquetball Score This performance reflects on aspects of being gender non-binary through an experimental soundscape strategically collected from and created through playing a solo game of racquetball.
5:20-6:00 p.m. – Gould Hall Atrium Sound Performance: <A HREF="https://corazonderobota.wordpress.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Constanza Piña</A> - Corazón de Robota Sonic project comprised by handmade synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines, filters and distortions. These artifacts are created out of textiles, e-trash and chocolate boxes by incorporating error-prone materials and electronics. The soundscapes they generate are chaotic textures, feedback and random patterns that are time-based and explore the rhythmical dimensions of noise.

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