Cross-Border Lecture: The Critical Design in the Context of PostPhenomenology

This event will be changed to a hybrid event! (July 12, 2023)
ハイブリッド開催に切り換えました!(2023.07.12.)

On August 4, Aaron Chu, visiting professor at Kansai University, will give a second lecture.
Why don’t you join us?

関西大学客員教授のAaron Chuさんが方法論としての批判的デザインという魅力的なテーマでお話しくださいます。

Title 題目:

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.

関西大学社会学部メディア専攻水越研究室主催
INSTeM共催

Lecturer 講師:

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

邱誌勇 教授
國立清華大學科技藝術研究所專任教授暨所長
藝術學院學士班合聘教授暨主任

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Aaron CHIU’s Public Lecture “From Visuality to Plasticity: The Visual Spectacle in the Age of Digital Culture in Taiwan”

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

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暑中お見舞い2022 Summer Greetings

微細な日常的実践に気づくことができる2名の学部3年生とミーティングしたあとのテーブルの上。

秋学期、”learning by doing”を地で行く授業をやりたいと思い、楽しく思いをめぐらせています。

On the table after meeting with two third-year undergraduates who can notice subtle everyday practices.

I am enjoying the thought of teaching a class in the fall semester that will be grounded in “learning by doing.”

学生にインタビューされました

関西大学は夏休みまであと一週間です。

社会学部メディア専攻の劉雪雁さんと 松山 秀明 さん、そして水出幸輝さんの3人が担当された授業で、学生さんたちのインタビューを受けました。

そのうちの1作品です。なんだか「うれし恥ずかし」です。

みんな、どうもありがとう。


Kansai University is just one week away from summer vacation.

I was interviewed by a group of students as part of a class in the media major.

This is an essay by one of them.

I am somewhat “happy and embarrassed.” Thank you, guys!