Nurturing Interspecies Kinship x DIGITAL AS A PLACE
also known as
๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ป๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฎ๐ต ๐๐ป๐ธ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฝ
September - October 2023
Concept Module for Graduate Media Design Practices, ArtCenter College of Design
Concept students will cultivate an ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ผ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ท๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น through the selection, care, maintenance, and observation of a ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฟ๐ด๐ .
- Experiencing new types of collective experiences
- Cultivating an appreciation for non-human intelligences
- Shifting through online & offline spaces through a mediated plant
- Embodying the maintenance role
- Creating alternative interfaces
- Learning what having a โparallel projectโ means in relation to primary design research in a creative practice
- Group Are.na
- The Mediated Plant by Teresa Castro
- Pollinator Pathmaker by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
- P2P Residency Berlin, Distributed Web of Care, led by Taeyoon Choi
- A Community is a Garden: Tools for Artists, Communities, and Institutitions, compiled by Kanyinsola Anifowoshe and Mikki Janower
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?, by Laurel Schwulst
Concept Module for Graduate Media Design Practices, ArtCenter College of Design
The What
Concept students will cultivate an ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ผ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ท๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น through the selection, care, maintenance, and observation of a ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฟ๐ด๐ .
Class Objectives
- Experiencing new types of collective experiences
- Cultivating an appreciation for non-human intelligences
- Shifting through online & offline spaces through a mediated plant
- Embodying the maintenance role
- Creating alternative interfaces
- Learning what having a โparallel projectโ means in relation to primary design research in a creative practice
Bibliography of Inspiration ( like branches on a tree )
- Group Are.na
- The Mediated Plant by Teresa Castro
- Pollinator Pathmaker by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
- P2P Residency Berlin, Distributed Web of Care, led by Taeyoon Choi
- A Community is a Garden: Tools for Artists, Communities, and Institutitions, compiled by Kanyinsola Anifowoshe and Mikki Janower
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?, by Laurel Schwulst