Feedback and Classnotes 07 December

  • December 07, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

FeedbackI think this seminar has brought up a lot of (good) questions and inspirations towards the BA thesis. Since I already had rough…

Classnotes 30 November

  • November 30, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

What does it mean to own it?to stand behind to be responsible as designers we have collaborators, users, mentors, participants, friends, the…

Literature Review 05

  • November 30, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Koskinen, I., Zimmerman, J., Binder, T., Redström, J., & Wensveen, S. 2011. Design research through practice: From lab, field, and showroom…

Literature Review 04

  • November 23, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

[zhdk], [Sweet dreams are made of this]John Thackara. 2006. In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. MIT Press. Excerpt.Design has wide…

Classnotes 17 November

  • November 17, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Michel Foucault: Collecting data as act of caring for one another [care], [feminism]Salt life cycle: which methods, which tools? How to…

Classnotes 16 November

  • November 16, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Jyoti InputSecond you, to question and challenge yourselfdialogue with material and collaboratorsThesis StructurePrototype has to work with…

Assignment Making Sense

  • November 16, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

My interest in finally engaging with issues in (Southeast) Asia began after living an accumulated time of over a year there. Engaging with…

Dreams

  • November 16, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

I have misunderstood the call to dream with a call to just chilling and being lazy that week. Not that I have been lazy, au contraire I have…

Literature Review 03

  • November 16, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

[zhdk], [Sweet dreams are made of this]Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Boucher, A. 2012. Attention To Detail: Annotations of a design process. pp…

Classnotes 9 November

  • November 09, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

As designers, we are already in a position of privileged, biased. Can we design beyond that? Can we overcome that?Literature review: What am…

Literature Review 01

  • November 09, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

AbstractMy journey from the now partially evicted village in Hong Kong has led me to a reengagement with my roots and heritage. Since then…

Literature Review 02

  • November 09, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Tin, Mikkel B. 2013. “Manifesto: Making and the Sense it makes”. In Studies in Material Thinking. Vol.9 Inside Making.Making as practical…

Free Flow

  • October 08, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

When I was searching for a book, I tried really hard to not pick a book about design or art. Quite a difficult task, since I only had time…

Positions

  • October 05, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Feminist Manifest, Mina Loy 1914I chose the Feminist Manifesto by Mina Loy because it is a brave manifesto for the time, and a necessary one…

Intersections

  • September 28, 2020
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Jackfruit Festival poster by ML Linking to last weeks blog post: the Jackfruit Festival poster drawn by a friend of mine, who is one of the…

Influences

  • September 21, 2020
  • // Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

In the beginning I thought that these three years of this bachelor programme are too short, too rushed. Now when I think back of what has…

Feedback

  • June 03, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

The introduction in the seminar was quite interesting because I could let go of all preconceived notions and just observe. Observe people…

Silk Road

  • May 20, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

Greco Buddhism > People from Europe left behind influenced culture and style from that era.Silk Road stone carvingHistoric networks, showing…

India's Place in the World Web of Cotton

  • May 13, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

What is global history? Analysis of commodity chainsNot about covering entire globe, but aware of importance of global correlation.Showing…

On the History and Empowerment of West African Workers

  • May 06, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

Contract-workers were dominant and preferredNo trickle down of rapid economy developmentColonial export production continue the practice of…

Accelerationism

  • April 29, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

90s: Lots of drugs, lots of internet. Democratisation of things. Nick Land Accelorationism: With good enough technology, we will be able to…

Anthropology of Hacking

  • April 15, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

Reading NotesMaxigasHackteriaBesetzes Haus BremgartenKocharealHacklabsVenue to be in the urban flow, communication, infrastructure, venue to…

Literacy

  • April 08, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

Hoggart > should not romantisise Papanek > romanticising about the people he designs forWhat is the own ability of the designer to criticise…

Machines as Extensions of Man

  • April 01, 2019
  • // Technology and Society

Computers as extension of man Tecné - extension of the body Hacking as creative reconfiguration compütär, it was like hallucination…