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 <u>Description:</u>
-This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools.
+This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools. (original text by Yashas Shetty)
 <u>Participants:</u>
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 * [[/Martin Müller/]]
 * [[/Jan Munske/]]
-* [[/Corinna Rausch/]]
 * [[/Dahye Seo/]]
 * [[/Jenny Soggia/]]
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 : - light sensor experiments
-November 30 – Sensors (theory & hands-on)
+December 1 – Sensor Tutorials + text discussion
 : - sensor starter kit presentations
-: - first ideas & experiments
+: - reading no. 1: Jennifer Gabrys: How to Do Things with Sensors
-: - Jennifer Gabrys
-December 1 – project ideas + text discussion
+December 8 – project ideas + text discussion
-: - presentation of ideas and experiments
+: - presentation of first ideas and experiments
-: - Byung-Chul Han: Shanzhai
+: - reading no. 2: Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell: Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism
-December 8 – hands-on (I) + text discussion
+December 15 – hands-on (I) + text discussion
-: - hands-on session
+: - presentation by Selena on Stafford Beer and the Cyber Syn project
-December 15 – hands-on (II)
 : - hands-on session
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 December 29 – Christmas holidays
-January 5 – updates
+January 5 – online consultations (optional)
+: 10:30 - 11:00 – Jemma
+: 11:30 - 12:00 – Mavie
+January 12 – updates + presentations
 : - present the current state of your projects
-: - further reading
+: - presentation by Jemma on Deep Listening
-January 12 – hands-on (III) + text discussion
+January 19 – presentation + hands-on (II) + private consultations
+: - present the current state of your projects
+: - presentation by Martin on Ursula K. Le Guin
-January 19 – hands-on (IV) + private consultations
+January 26 – hands-on (III) + private consultations
-: 09:30 - 10:00 – name
+: - present the current state of your projects
-: 10:00 - 10:30 – name
+: - presentation by Dahye on philosophies of cycles
-: 10:30 - 11:00 – name
+: - Deep Listening Experiment with Jemma
-: 11:30 - 12:00 – name
-: 12:00 - 12:30 – name
-January 26 – hands-on (V) + private consultations
-: 09:30 - 10:00 – name
-: 10:00 - 10:30 – name
-: 10:30 - 11:00 – name
-: 11:30 - 12:00 – name
 February 2nd – final presentations
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 <u>Literature:</u>
+* Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell: Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism
 *Jennifer Gabrys, How to Do Things with Sensors, https://www.jennifergabrys.net/2019/09/how-to-sensors/
 *Jennifer Gabrys, Program Earth, https://www.jennifergabrys.net/2016/03/program-earth-environmental-sensing-technology-making-computational-planet/
+* Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene
 * Byung-Chul Han, Shanzhai, https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534369/shanzhai/
 *Hannes Bergthaller, Eva Horn: Anthropozän zur Einführung, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5