PLDS
4060
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201130
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Faculty:
Emily Miller
This seminar will be a platform to explore out-of-the-ordinary developments in design. Concentrating on concepts of invention, innovation, surprise, and wonder and bridging all realms of the visual world, we will consider such things as e-textiles, translucent concrete, touchlight interaction, superscapes and Sonicvision. From hand-craft to the machine, the mechanical to the digital, Zoetropes to virtual worlds, telegraphy to the internet, designers dont just impact the appearance and fabrication of material things but also engage in ever-changing technologies that may alter our relationship to the very materiality of those things, as well as dramatically shift our sense of time and space. How may we think about the earliest design tools in the context of tomorrows visionary devices? As we approach the close of the twenty-first centurys first decade, where technically anything and everything seems possible, how does design continue to invent, invert, delight or suspend belief? Pathway: Design Studies
