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Schedule

8:30 AM

Breakfast and opening remarks

Organizers Shannon Lee Dawdy, 3CT/Anthropology and Patrick Jagoda, Weston Game Lab/English/Cinema and Media Studies

9:00 AM -

12:00 PM

Session I: Artifacts/Spaces

9:00 AM

Keynote I: James Auger, "Post-Petroleum Utopias"

Associate Professor

RMIT Europe and the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal

9:40 AM

Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons, "Future Climate [Hi]stories"

Designers, Parsons and Charlesworth, Chicago

10:00 AM

Coffee Break

10:20 AM

Samantha Fox, "The Afterlife of Utopia: Urban Renewal in Germany’s Model Socialist City"

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, New York

10:40 AM

Rebecca Journey, "Urban Living Room"

PhD Candidate

Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

11:00 AM

Discussion

11:20 AM

Keynote II: Deepa Butoliya, “Critical Jugaad: Marginal Designerly Practices from Beyond the Anglo-European Sphere”

Assistant Professor

Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM -

2:30 PM

Session II: Utopia/Dystopia

1:00 PM

Emily Michele Cates, “Nuclear Heritage”

Master of Design Candidate

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1:20 PM

Evan Wisdom-Dawson, "Seeds of the Apocalypse"

PhD Candidate

Department of English, University of Chicago

1:40 PM

Aaron Benanav, "Abundance Is a Social Relation"

Harper and Schmidt Fellow
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago

2:00 PM

Discussion

2:20 PM

Coffee Break

2:30 PM -

5:00 PM

Session III: Design Presentation and Game Workshop

2:30 PM

Keynote III: Ken Eklund, "Authentic Fictions and Immersions"

Independent Artist and Game Designer

3:10 PM

Ken Eklund leads Game Workshop: "Premonitaeology: A Ludic Challenge"

5:00 PM -

6:00 PM

Reception

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