The Critical Design in the Context of PostPhenomenology
Abstract 概要:
Critical design is a practical strategy through design that uncovers potentially hidden agendas and values, and explores alternative design values. A Critical Design practice challenges an audience’s pre-conceptions, provoking new ways of thinking about the object, its use, and the surrounding culture.
Also, Critical Design often uses various artistic devices to express its concerns regarding rapid technological progress and its criticism of scales of mass production, as well as of contemporary capitalism. It questions the negative impact of these phenomena on human society through artistic creation and design.
Against this background, is it possible that cross-border cooperation between art and design can help to strike a balance between each other, and that this cooperation can help to express a “caring-for-society”?
This talk will adopt a post-phenomenological perspective to design and arts and take examples from contemporary Taiwanese artists and designers’ works to understand the relationship between the existence of art/ design and the role of technology. This understanding is critical because the rapid pace of technological change and the increasing role of technology in the world of art/design are obvious.
Chih-Yung Aaron CHIU, Professor Chair, Graduate Institute of Art and Technology. Director, Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art, College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University
Dr. Aaron CHIU, visiting professor at Kansai University, will lecture “From Visuality to Plasticity: The Visual Spectacle in the Age of Digital Culture in Taiwan” Please come and join us!
Chih-Yung Aaron CHIU, Professor & Director 邱誌勇教授
Graduate Institute of Art and Technology, National Tsing Hua University 國立精華大學科技藝術研究所
Visiting Scholar, Kansai University 関西大學客員教授
関西大学千里山キャンパス第3学舎（社会学部）A202教室 #A202, Faculty of Sociology, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University
No pre-registration is required, free of charge. 事前登録不要、参加費無料
10:40-12:10, Wednesday, July 19, 2023 2023年7月19日（水）10:40-12:10
I became President of the Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies (JAMS). I was elected as the new President at the Board of Directors meeting of the Spring Conference at Nara Prefectural University in June 2023. For the next two years, I would like to regard academic society as one medium and do my best to make that medium exciting and interesting. I would like to do this with the help of the Board of Directors, the Auditors, and the more than 1,000 members. Thank you in advance for your support.
Workshop “Design for Digital Media Society and User” JAMS 2023 Nara, where Shin attended.
Two anthologies to which I have contributed have recently been published. In both articles, I discussed reflective workshops I developed, thinking about how we metaphorically understand platforms and AI. I thank the editors for allowing me to publish them.
I believe, however, that it is not enough to decode and understand platforms and AI but that it is necessary to find approaches for practical intervention by citizens. I intend to discuss this thoroughly in my forthcoming monograph.
“Reading Aloud Terms of Use: A Workbook for Understanding Platforms” (co-authored with Masahiro Katsuno), Decoding Platform Capitalism, (2023) Nakanishiya Shuppan.
“Let’s Draw AI!: A Workshop for Developing Metaphorical Understanding of Media,” Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power, (2023) The University of Tokyo Press.
