PRIMER19 Workshop by Elliott P. Montgomery, David Baum, Danni Peng, and Meg...
Event Information
Description
Join us for PRIMER19 Workshops Saturday, June 15, 2019!
All PRIMER19 workshops are open to the public as an extension of the PRIMER19 Conference programming occurring at Parsons, The New School on June 13-14, 2019*.
This year's PRIMER conference theme, FUTURES FOR ALL, highlights the wisdom and power of creating diverse spaces for interrogating the 'inevitable'. We intend to bring together participants from across industries and academia to share ideas, methods and projects that examine the reciprocal relationship between design, the world we live in, and the futures we want.
Workshop Info
Title: Disruptive Modeling for Higher Education
Presenters:
Elliott P. Montgomery; Assistant Professor of Strategic Design at Parsons School of Design & Co-Founder of The Extrapolation Factory
Parsons Graduate Students: David Baum, Danni Peng, and Meghana Srinivasan.
Elliott P. Montgomery is a design researcher and strategist and whose work focuses on speculative inquiries at the confluence of social, technological and environmental impact.
He is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Design at Parsons School of Design, and co-founder of The Extrapolation Factory, a design-futures studio based in Brooklyn.
Elliott was also a design research resident at the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy. He holds a Master's in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in Londonand a Bachelor's in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon Universityin Pittsburgh.
Workshop Overview
The predominant model for higher education is ripe for disruption. Most American colleges and Universities operate on outmoded models of learning and funding, despite being considered havens of imagination and critical thinking. Familiar and troubling conditions confront the higher-education community, including unsustainable financial models, top-heavy hierarchies, and curricular frameworks that lag behind the global pace of technological and social change.
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a new speculative approach for constructing potentially disruptive education models through three parts. In part one, participants will engage with a survey of experimental higher-ed proposals that challenge current models across 8 categories. In part two, the workshop will demonstrate assessment tools for locating structural weaknesses in current systems. In part three, participants will build on the first two parts to formulate a speculative educational model that demonstrates a disruptive pathway.
Workshop Takeaways
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A survey of experimental higher-ed proposals across 8 categories
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A critical framework for institutional structural analysis in higher education.
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A speculative approach for generating disruptive pathways
Special Notes
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PRIMER19 workshops are scheduled for A.M. and P.M. While this workshop is currently scheduled for the A.M. time slot, the final starting time may vary depending on scheduling needs. Workshop ticket holders will be notified accordingly.
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Attendees who purchase a PRIMER19 conference ticket receive a discount off of all PRIMER19 related workshops. Please check your confirmation email or contact theprimerconference@gmail.com for discount-related questions or problems.
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Student Tickers are available to purchase for individuals who (a) purchase using their official .edu email address AND (b) show a valid, current student ID/verification when checking into the conference and workshop.
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If you want to attend the PRIMER19 conference or affiliated workshops but are experiencing economic hardship, please visit the extenuating circumstances page on our website and we'd be happy to work with you!
Other PRIMER19 Workshops:
PRIMER19 Workshop by Andrés Valencia The Future is Human: A Toolkit for Progress
PRIMER19 Workshop by Frank Spencer: Wicked Opportunities: Innovation Through Foresight
PRIMER19 Workshop by Pierre Shaw & Kishan San: Platforms and Their Protagonists
PRIMER19 Workshop by Chirryl-Lee Ryan: Impact The World Isn't Ready For
PRIMER19 Workshop by Grace Turtle & Andreu Belsunces: Automated Control Wars
*What is PRIMER?
PRIMER conference was created to prepare you for the future and to equip you to help shape it. It is the annual conference (in the US and Europe) produced by the Design Futures Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in San Francisco, CA and the annual gathering for the Speculative Futures community with 20 (and growing) chapters worldwide.
We welcome anyone to join us! Conference attendees (and localized MeetUp members) span a wide array of designers, artists, technologists, makers, students, and organizations whose work focuses on questioning and rethinking our technologies, products, and systems, or proposes alternative narratives and future worlds.
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