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Only 4 days until #thesislive! Today we’re sha

Only 4 days until #thesislive! Today we’re sharing #thesis work by @keisuke.kuniyoshi. His thesis Rally Cruizin’, is a project exploring Uber’s exploitation of drivers, it weaves fair wages, benefits, and collective power into a story of resistance through collaboration, facilitation, and communication. The project analyzes and re-imagines the role of digital platforms, by offering a co-opted platform that uses Uber’s existing surge model to challenge their own exploitation practices. The aim is to provide platform drivers with ownership of their wages towards collective power. #thesislive #ohmdp

It’s #thesis live week! We’ll be teasing thesi

It’s #thesis live week! We’ll be teasing thesis projects all week before the big event on Friday. We’re starting with @aishwaryajanwadkar’s project “Negentropic Landscapes.” 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 maximum disorder, and this is reflected in the architecture of the health system. Hospice care, in particular, is located within a fragmented end-of-life care landscape with for-profit services scattered across standalone settings. Negentropic Landscapes is an approach to building communities that support an “inside-out” hospice care model. It is designed in opposition to the current end-of-life architecture where aging and death are often treated as discrete from the rest of life. “Architecture,” in this project refers to structures of thinking, protocols, and logics – an idea space, designed to prompt a conversation not just about hospice but about how the design of communities can help acclimate us to the reality of death.

Time to mark your calendars! Graduate Media Desig

Time to mark your calendars! Graduate Media Design Practices @artcenteredu presents THESIS LIVE 2021! April 16 // 3-5 PST. Join us for an afternoon of cli-fi almanacs, femme futures, zoomed houses, negentropic communities, horticultural social media, radical ride-share, data portraits, neo-metabolisms, industrial craft, socialization games, eco-tech foodies, complicit ecologies, filtered feelings... Hosted by MDP Thesis Lead Faculty: Anne Burdick, Elise Co, and Tim Durfee. @timdurfee Guest Respondents: Stuart Candy, Futurist, CMU (@futuryst) and Emily Smith, Curator & Designer, UE Berlin Links to the event to follow!

This week we weren’t able to host our Tuesday ma

This week we weren’t able to host our Tuesday making lab session, but @fakecaseyanderson was planning to cover tools and techniques for using a breadboard for create a circuit. He teaches this workshop every year and it’s an invaluable lesson that sets students up for all the physical computing work done throughout the program! #ohmdp

@artcenteredu has shared some new re-opening guide

@artcenteredu has shared some new re-opening guidelines for the summer for current students! Students will be able to opt in to attend certain summer term classes in-person! Scroll through for 10 fast facts about the re-opening. 🤘

For colloquium tonight we have #alumna @ldubalicio

For colloquium tonight we have #alumna @ldubalicious joining us! Lauren Williams (she/her) is a designer, organizer, researcher, and educator. She works with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine the ways social and economic systems distribute and exercise power. She teaches full-time in the Communication Design department at the College for Creative Studies and occasionally elsewhere. Lately, her practice and research revolves around Blackness, identity, bodiliness, and social fictions and examines the ways in which racism is felt, embodied, and embedded into institutions. Her work often engages people through collaborations and facilitated experiences in service of imagining and manifesting a more liberated present and future. In the past, she's managed programs and policy aimed at cultivating economic justice. Going forward, she's most interested in finding ways to align her capacities with revolutionary movements that build toward a different economy entirely and usher in new dimensions of power and freedom altogether. Post 📷: An image from her #thesis project ‘Enacting Tribute,’ a collection of objects and narratives that pose questions about society, politics and civic engagement.

Getting through week 11 like....☺️ @iateallyo

Getting through week 11 like....☺️ @iateallyourtacos #ohmdp

It’s week 11 and we are slowly, yet steadily cre

It’s week 11 and we are slowly, yet steadily creeping towards the end of the semester. For next semester, we’re thinking about new creative content to share! What other story collections should we think about adding to our account? What do you want to learn more about in terms of what it feels like to join the @mediadesignpractices community? Let us know in the comments! #ohmdp

#thesis share! Drop Houses is a #thesis by @_stel

#thesis share! Drop Houses is a #thesis by @_stella.huang. It explores the design of our physical environments based on the reality of our online life. Throughout history, our physical surroundings have reflected our cultural behavior. In this highly remote era, however, with virtual portals now a part of regular domestic space, our cultural behaviors and life moments occur increasingly online. The home will be to the virtual space experience what the body is to the physical experience of architecture, and as long as the virtual portal is accessed within the scope of private property, the physical space will inevitably become the framework for building these virtual worlds. The scenarios explored in this project examine the integration, overlap, exposure, and ownership of both digital and physical space in the future home. Drop Houses considers the reciprocal influence of the everyday digital and the everyday physical, proposing new types of hybrid space. The forms and configurations of these hybrid spaces are determined by the residents’ various forms of online life – including both their professional and personal identities. #thesis advisor: @timdurfee