ABOUT THE 5 SESSIONS
SESSION 1: Human & Machine
Date: 22.04.20 – 6pm
Guest: Ludwig Rensch (Robotics, Industrial Design)
What the session is about:
How can the interaction between Human and technology look like in the future? Which technology is worth a speculation? How could the interaction with technology change due to the situation we live in? How much speculation is in development? Why do we need to imagine artifacts for future technology?
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SESSION 2: Becoming alive!
Date: 07.05.20 – 4pm
Guest: Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich (MPI Heidelberg, biophysics & synthetic biology)
What the session is about:
In this Session scientist Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich will give insights in her research on synthetic biology and all the potentials as well as problematics connected to her work.
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SESSION 3: Technology in postcapitalist production
Date: 25.05.20 – 4pm
Guest: Hüseyin Sahin (M.A. Europawissenschaften / European Studies),
What the session is about:
Who or what determines the development of technology today? How will it be tomorrow? What impact can technological development have on the society of tomorrow? How do we currently deal with it? How does a discourse on the direction of developments takes place in today’s society? Who decides what is “right” and what is “wrong”? In dialogue with Hüseyin Şahin we will take a look at the development of technology in relation to current and possible future social structures.
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SESSION 4: The narrative power of Sci-Fi
Date: 08.06.20 – 4pm
Marcel Mayr (Philosophy & Transhumanism)
What the session is about:
The key conceptual question that underlies all other questions is about direction. Whether in politics, design, philosophy, or technological innovation, we should always try to define where we are, and where we want to head to. There’s never a fixed state. We are crowd creators of our dynamic world. Personal narratives, or „context“, which always is biased and egocentric and require self-awareness is most important in understanding the what and defining the how.
Humans are almighty, but: Why is an artistic/creative creative process never neutral? Can I change the future? Can I change the past? In what world do you want to live? And who are you anyway? Humans do often not understand their own motivation and values: Do humans have any value and how many should exist for how long? How should we live? Who is to decide? Do you love, hate, fear, …? Why? What, if anything, would you change in the world, with people, with you? Is health, peace, prosperity and importability a goal to strive for? In what way does technology and knowledge influence the way we live? Since Copernicus has pushed s out of the center of the world, and taken away the idea of superiority and being protected it is up to each and everyone to create the world in which we want to live and to create the narrative and the observer, too. Let’s create a story…
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SESSION 5: The creative power of Sci-Fi
Date: 22.06.20 – 4pm
Estevan Mykhail Guzman (Griffith Observatory, LA, USA)
What the session is about:
How do we enable access to complex scientific topics of the future through art and design? What role does aesthetics play in this? And which emotions are specifically addressed and through which artistic means?
With Estevan Guzman we will explore some of the artistic possibilities communicating speculative scenarios and how to actively provoke emotions and transfer vision into something tangible through Si-Fi.
