Machinic Modernity: the artificial and the self Design making cannot exist without design thinking, just as machinism, modernity and design cannot exist without each other. Together they can lead to progress as well as to unforeseen disruptions. Exploring these perspectives in combination with notions of humanity and more-than-human worlds, we will reference powerful concepts ranging from pre-modern philosophies, mythologies, and religions, to the Bauhaus, science, technology, posthumanism, the artificial, and the self. We will consider our responsibilities and agencies both as visionaries, creatives, and engineers of possible futures. We will combine theory and form investigations to demonstrate how their synergy can be a foundation for the making of stories, images, products, architectures, interfaces, services, and systems. Ultimately, this class is an opportunity to investigate the drivers of our collective and individual practice, to then confront one of the great questions of our times: Why, what and how must we engage our rapidly transforming world, to address the redesign of value systems, incentives, environments, economies and social contracts underpinning our daily lives.

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