SPECULATIVE DESIGN: POST-PETROLEUM UTOPIAS
[WHEN]
Friday, May 31 | 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
[WHERE]
Crerar Library 298 and Weston Game Lab
5730 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
[ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM]
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Speculative Design is a cyborg practice that harkens back to past futurist movements, insisting on a moveable spectrum between art and radical social science. What would it mean to imagine a world without oil and its derivatives? This symposium, with special-guest practitioners in speculative design, will be followed by a game workshop open to all. For one day, let us explore and imagine what it might mean – it might take – to imagine a post-petroleum future.
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Check out the Facebook event.
RSVP not required, but recommended as seating is limited.
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[OUR KEYNOTES]
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JAMES AUGER, The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute and RMIT Europe
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DEEPA BUTOLIYA, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
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KEN EKLUND, Independent artist
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[OUR ORGANIZERS]
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SHANNON LEE DAWDY, 3CT/Anthropology, University of Chicago
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PATRICK JAGODA, Weston Game Lab/English/Cinema and Media Studies
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[STUDENT MODERATOR]
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LIVIA MILLER, Student in the College, University of Chicago