16th of June at The Danish Design School. The aim of the seminar is to discuss the role of design and design research in participatory design projects that deal with social, cultural and technological innovation in the public sphere.
Through three PhD seminars The Danish Design School presents an exposition of the current trends within design research that explores the boundaries and conjunctions between design research and different areas of social sciences.
About the seminar: June 16th, 9-12
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and areas within design research, have for some time now been sharing a growing mutual interest. In this seminar we will focus on the convergence of STS and the area of speculative design, understood as design practices that seek to articulate and materialize issues of concerns, and contribute to the formation of publics and alternative futures.
Alex Wilkie, PhD, is Lecturer & Research Fellow at the department of Design, Goldsmiths University of London. His research interests lie at the intersection of STS, the user and material politics with a special attention to design as a prospective practice, the politics of technology, object-centered practices, the role of users in participatory forms of design as well as poststructuralist theory.
Brit Ross Winthereik is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Science & Technology Studies, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Situational Analysis with an ethnographic attention to standardization and accountability practices and within health care IT.
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