made up
What is “made up”?
Events:
September 17, 2010
AS IF: Alternate Realities, panel
September 22, 2010
Utopia in Four Movements, screening
January 22-March 12, 2011
Exhibition
February 4, 2011
UN-UN-REAL, panel,
exhibition opening reception
February 19, 2011
LIES, readings and screenings
March 11, 2010
MADE REAL: Researching the Future, panel
panel
3:00 to 5:00 pm, Friday, September 17, 2010
Wind Tunnel Gallery
South Campus
Art Center College of Design
950 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
PARKING ON SITE
This panel discussion, moderated by MADE UP organizer Tim Durfee, will consider the value (or perhaps merely the appeal) of a methodology that could be characterized as: assume a set of conditions (abitrary, absurd, speculative), play it straight. Historically, alternate realities have been the realm of literature and film but what might be the effects of such an approach within a field (design) that is conventionally concerned with the cold, hard facts of the real world, of the here and now. And importantly, why does this work feel uniquely relevant NOW?
Sascha Pohflepp, London-based designer and artist, was one of this summer's researchers-in-residence. As part of the MADE UP theme, he produced the project “SUPERCALIFORNIA!” which turns the phantom futures of Southern California into compelling design fiction.
http://www.pohflepp.com/
Julian Bleecker, a designer and technologist, is a researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design, and the co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a “design-to-think” studio.
http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/
Norman Klein is a cultural historian, critic, and novelist, and the author, with Margo Bistis, of the multi-media database/novel/website/art installation titled “The Imaginary Twentieth Century," a historical science-fiction novel. His forthcoming book is called The Dismantling of the American Psyche: MediaBuzz, Political Branding, and Collective Amnesia: 1968-Present
http://imaginarytwentiethcentury.com/
“I have long been interested in how science fiction has influenced science fact. To me, design fiction encourages peculiar design practices in an attempt to create different sorts of near future worlds. The Made Up project promises to illuminate the future-oriented practice of design and help us understand how design probes imaginatively and materializes ideas, oftentimes through stories.” —Julian Bleecker