Public talk: Framing Wonder. Beyond Design for Existential Crisis
Professor Ann Light discusses in this talk "Framing Wonder. Beyond Design for Existential Crisis" the role of design in contributing to future ways of being and address the big crisis of our time – climate change and the mass extinction, we are currently experiencing.
In this talk, professor Ann Light discusses the role of design in contributing to future ways of being part of and address the big crisis of our time – climate change and the mass extinction we are currently experiencing – by making three suggestions:
1) We are still learning what we are capable of as a species, but we are currently experiencing a crisis of meaning.
2) We have the means to meet through new relations ensuing opportunities for cultural change and growth.
3) Our tools need to follow these lines of inquiry.
The work will probably touch on acts of growing, imagining, collaborating and place-making.
About Ann Light
Ann Light is Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex, leader of the Creative Technology Research Group and a qualitative researcher specializing in design for social well being, participatory design and social innovation. Her current research relates to social justice, sustainability and sharing, with a particular interest in place-shaping and how people make futures. She has worked with arts and grass-roots organizations and marginalized groups on five continents, in local, transnational and international development settings. She is co-author of Designing Connected Products (O’Reilly, 2015) and advises the EU on the sharing economy.