Design Studies

4 credits

This seminar will map the agendas of speculative design, understood as the experimental prototyping of alternatives for complex sociotechnical systems. It will draw from speculative philosophy to problematize those alternatives, and formulate original concepts in turn. Foci may include architecture and urbanism, anthropology and economics, anthropogenic ecosystems, energy and geopolitics, synthetic biology, cognitive science, astronomy, computer science. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.