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a design MFA at ArtCenter in emerging technologies, critical frameworks, and experimental studio practices

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a design MFA at ArtCenter in emerging technologies, critical frameworks, and experimental studio practices

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Capacity to Care In A Multispecies Future Colloquium Wed, March 29, 2023, 1pm zoom

Introducing Creative Tech Week 2022 at ArtCenter Creative Tech Week Ahmanson Auditorium

Anti-Racist and Anti-Bias Pedagogy Workshop Co-Sponsored by The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning and DEI Thu, December 1, 2022, 11am Zoom

Recent Projects

Monumental Death Kate Ladenheim

Monumental Death is an interactive installation consisting of an inflatable anti-monument and movement score. The project seeks to dismantle tropes of heroism as represented by…

The Heritage Mavis Cao and Jeremy Chen

Our video Heritage speculates a future of work when automation is not only cold and instrumental but is also able to carry cultural heritage and…

Negentropic Landscapes Aishwarya Janwadkar

This project interrogates the larger orders of our relationship to death, space, institutions, territories, technologies, and politics. In today’s society, death is the ultimate or…

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Today! MDP Colloquium: Capacity to Care in a Mult

Today!

MDP Colloquium: Capacity to Care in a Multi-species Future

Wednesday, March 29

1-2pm PST

https://artcenter.zoom.us/j/97804944848 Meeting ID: 978 0494 4848

Join MDP for Thesis/Guest Pecha-Kuchas + Panel Discussion + Q&A

“Making worlds is not limited to humans…humans shape multi species worlds when our living arrangements make room for other species.”
–Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World

Capacity to Care in a Multi-Species Future grew out of MDP discussions around emerging topics at the intersections of cultural anthropology, ecology, and material sciences, and gave rise to the question: How can design and research make a significant contribution to the topic of care in a multi-species future?

It brings the mindset of giving “trust” to nature and generating “care” in cultures. With attention to colossal waste, social inequities, and many more anthropocentric issues. How do designers and researchers work towards uplifting voices of the unheard? How do culture and nature inform the process of designing and researching? What will be the role of emerging technologies?

Capacity to Care in a Multi-Species Future features core faculty and principle of RCD/LA Sean Donahue, and design researcher, storyteller, and educator focusing on social justice Iris Luo.

Images by @tingyi_mov @zoey.wang.z @ts822079

MDP Colloquium: Capacity to Care in a Multi-specie

MDP Colloquium: Capacity to Care in a Multi-species Future

Wednesday, March 29

1-2pm PST

https://artcenter.zoom.us/j/97804944848 Meeting ID: 978 0494 4848

Join MDP for Thesis/Guest Pecha-Kuchas + Panel Discussion + Q&A

“Making worlds is not limited to humans…humans shape multi species worlds when our living arrangements make room for other species.”
–Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World

Capacity to Care in a Multi-Species Future grew out of MDP discussions around emerging topics at the intersections of cultural anthropology, ecology, and material sciences, and gave rise to the question: How can design and research make a significant contribution to the topic of care in a multi-species future?

It brings the mindset of giving “trust” to nature and generating “care” in cultures. With attention to colossal waste, social inequities, and many more anthropocentric issues. How do designers and researchers work towards uplifting voices of the unheard? How do culture and nature inform the process of designing and researching? What will be the role of emerging technologies?

Capacity to Care in a Multi-Species Future features core faculty and principle of RCD/LA Sean Donahue, and design researcher, storyteller, and educator focusing on social justice Iris Luo.

Images by @tingyi_mov @zoey.wang.z @ts822079

It's crit week! 🎉✨😊 Final #crit of @parso

It's crit week! 🎉✨😊

Final #crit of @parsonsprojects #dev class "Expanded Cinema." Congrats Dev!

The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review to

The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis

12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present)
1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level)
2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel)

Graphics by @deuterium_cha

<img alt="The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis 12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present) 1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level) 2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel) Graphics by @deuterium_cha" data-src="https://mdp.artcenter.edu/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://mdp.artcenter.edu/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis 12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present) 1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level) 2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel) Graphics by @deuterium_cha">

The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review to

The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis

12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present)
1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level)
2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel)

Graphics by @deuterium_cha

<img alt="The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis 12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present) 1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level) 2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel) Graphics by @deuterium_cha" data-src="https://mdp.artcenter.edu/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://mdp.artcenter.edu/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis 12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present) 1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level) 2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel) Graphics by @deuterium_cha">

The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review to

The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis

12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present)
1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level)
2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel)

Graphics by @deuterium_cha

<img alt="The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis 12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present) 1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level) 2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel) Graphics by @deuterium_cha" data-src="https://mdp.artcenter.edu/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://mdp.artcenter.edu/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="The time has come! MDP Thesis Graduation Review tomorrow! Congrats Thesis! #thesis 12–2pm: MDP Gallery walkthrough / demo time (thesis students will be present) 1–2pm: Snacks and coffee available on the terrace (mezzanine level) 2–7pm: Presentations and discussion M51 and M53 (short presentations followed by ~20-minute discussion; two reviews happen in parallel) Graphics by @deuterium_cha">

Thank you Career & Professional Development! They

Thank you Career & Professional Development!
They hosted Thomas Mueller and Petra Seipp for their talk and workshop Accenture Life Trends 2023, on Thursday,
February 23rd.
Thomas Mueller, Head of Design Europe at Accenture Song, is visiting ArtCenter this February to deliver Accenture's special annual trend report. Join us on campus for an exploration into five major trends that will have significant implications for businesses in the year ahead.
This year's report circulates around five main trends with insights formed via a global network of designers, creatives, technologists, sociologists and anthropologists.
Providing vital foresight into people's changing behavior and relationship with technology, Accenture Life Trends 2023 (formerly Fjord Trends) investigates the evolving power dynamics between people and organizations, presenting incredible opportunities for businesses to develop relationships with customers like never before.

Today! MDP Colloquium: Tega Brain Wednesday, Feb

Today!

MDP Colloquium: Tega Brain
Wednesday, February 15
1pm

https://artcenter.zoom.us/j/97804944848 Meeting ID: 978 0494 4848

Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems and infrastructure. She has created wireless networks that respond to natural phenomena, systems for obfuscating fitness data, and an online smell-based dating service. Her work has been shown widely including in the Vienna Biennale for Change and the Guangzhou Triennial. Her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is co authored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press.

Coin-Operated Wetland

Futures
28 May - 06 July 2022
Smithsonian Arts and Industries

"Speculative Curatorship Beyond Whiteness", a talk

"Speculative Curatorship Beyond
Whiteness", a talk by Elizabeth Chin at Design
Anthropology: Critical Speculations, Papanek Symposium 2023, online 16-17 March 2023. Registration & info link in @papanekfoundation bio.
Elizabeth Chin is an anthropologist, professor in Media Design Practices at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California @mediadesignpractices, with a varied practice that includes performative scholarship, experimental ethnography, vernacular electronics, dance and community engagement. Recent publications have
appeared in Feminist Anthropology and ICM Interactions.
As editor in chief of American Anthropologist, she is
dedicated to transparency and to practicing an ethic of care.
Papanek Symposium 2023, 'Design Anthropology: Critical Speculations', is a cooperation between The New School for Social Research, New York @nssrnews & the Papanek
Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna
@papanekfoundation @dieangewandte. Co-convened by
Shannon Mattern @atlas.sounds Professor of Media & Art History @pennarthistory & @alison_j. clarke, Professor of
Design History & Theory & Director @papanekfoundation