It is a good book. The design is beautiful and stylish.
However, I should be finishing my own book, not translating a book written by someone else. But I took on the job for various reasons, including the commentary.
Buckingham’s bird’s-eye view and boldness are fabulous. However, East Asia, including Japan, has a relatively unique media environment. We have our own experiences and thoughts.
I will do my best to create my own work from now on.
I divided media theory and media literacy into three dimensions and conducted three workshops corresponding to each. The purpose was to provide a deep understanding of media and literacy, not speculatively, but experientially.
For the third dimension of designing a platform, I conducted a workshop called “Magical Transformation (Makaizo) of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III) and GSII as A Learning Platform.”
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
