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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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