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[[:Category:Projektmodul|Projektmodul]]<br />
[[:Category:Projektmodul|Projektmodul]]<br />
''Lecturer(s):'' [[:Category:Yashas Shetty|Yashas Shetty]]<br />
''Lecturer(s):'' [[:Category:Yashas Shetty|Yashas Shetty]]<br />
''Credits:'' 12 [[SWS]]<br />
''Credits:'' 16 [[SWS]]<br />
Date: Thursdays 09.15-12.30<br />
''Date:'' Thursdays 09.15-12.30<br />
''Venue:'' [[Marienstraße 7b/204|Room 204]]<br />
''Venue:'' [[Marienstraße 7b/204|Room 204]]<br />
''First meeting:'' 20.10.2022<br />
''First meeting:'' 20.10.2022<br />
''BBB:'' https://meeting.uni-weimar.de/b/min-g3n-kqy-lol


This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools.
This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools.

Revision as of 12:40, 17 August 2022

Projektmodul
Lecturer(s): Yashas Shetty
Credits: 16 SWS
Date: Thursdays 09.15-12.30
Venue: Room 204
First meeting: 20.10.2022
BBB: https://meeting.uni-weimar.de/b/min-g3n-kqy-lol

This is a tool building seminar. Many of us today believe that we live in a dystopia. Our personal agency and autonomy have been slowly eroding. Many of the tools that were meant to liberate us -- the internet, computers, AI, biotechnology have turned against us. Is it possible to reimagine a future where humans take control of our own narrative or is it lost forever? Do we now learn to live in a dystopia or can we still dare to imagine a Utopia? In this seminar, We will borrow from the toolkit of hackers, designers, artists-collectives, activists and biohackers to learn the tools that they have imagined to create a utopia or fight dystopia. Our final project will critically examine these tools and techniques and attempt to reimagine or rebuild these tools.