4.370/4.371 Interrogative Design Workshop - Design for Survival

Design for survival, for an unacceptable world, for discontent. Addresses design media and technology as both ethical and aesthetic practice. Development of projects finalized as working tools, instruments, implements, and equipment is supported by relevant theoretical study, presentations and informed discussion. Design as a research proposal and implementation can be called interrogative when it takes a risk, explores, articulates, and responds to the questionable conditions of life in today’s world. Interrogative design questions the very world of needs of which it is born. This workshop poses new questions, exposes hidden issues, and creates inspirational and experimental situations for designers and artists as cultural agents. Lab fee $65.

Spring 2009

Instructor: Krzysztof Wodiczko
Meets: M 2:00-5:00 PM
Recitation: to be determined
Room N52-396
4.371 Graduate Level Subject
4.370 Undergraduate Level Subject
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-3-6