Design, Aesthetics, Politics and Urban Lives

Talk given at People, Cities and Urban Interaction Design, organised by Interaction Design Association Dublin, 9 March, 2017.

Transcript

1. Sung-Yueh Perng NIRSA, Maynooth University sung-yueh.perng@nuim.ie @ syperng Designs, Aesthetics, Politics and Urban Lives
2. Two different ideas of political subjectivity: the archi-political idea of a party, that is to say the idea of a form of political intelligence that sums up the essential conditions for change, and the meta-political idea of global political subjectivity, the idea of the potentiality inherent in the innovative sensible modes of experience that anticipate a community to come Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics
3. It is this specific mode of living in the sensible world that must be developed by ‘aesthetic education’ in order to train [people] susceptible to live in a free political community Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics
5. Artwork: Tarsila Kruse; http://www.tarsilakruse.com/ Details about #BoxArtworks project here & below: https://dubcitybeta.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/traffic-light-box-artworks/
7. ‘reinforce/enhance the IDENTITY of that area of the city ’ is key (all emphases original): Let’s make sure that they’re of relevance to that location, as then they will have even greater impact. For example, Tarsila’s art piece above shows a Viking and it’s based on the site of the major Viking Settlement that was at Wood Quay. Traffic Light Boxes and Why?
8. Perceived values for different actors from seeking to repaint the boxes City Save the Council money Residents Enhance the area around…making it more attractive Community Strengthen the identity of the area in the minds of the people that live, work, visit and pass through Artists Provide an outlet for artists to exhibit their work Unpacking the Boxes: Values
11. #BoxArtworks Project transformed into community art project, Dublin Canvas. For map & details: http://www.dublincanvas.com/
13. Co-creating Futures & Uncertainties
14. Anticipating futures from present
15. wait time prediction at immigration office platform to facilitate citizen collaboration
16. anticipating futures makes one understand better that things could be otherwise, that outcomes are not necessarily determined, that a certain future is not inevitable. Urry, What is the Future?
17. social futures are fateful for people’s lives in the present. … [Future] is too important to be left to states, corporations or technologists. … The time of the future is now, and the social sciences and the social world should not miss it Urry, What is the Future?
18. @ syperng http://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/ @ ProgCity Acknowledgements The Programmable City project research is funded by European Research Council Advanced Investigator award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY). Thank you!