Industry Keynote: Ron Wakkary

Presenter Information

Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University

Location

Online

Event Website

https://www.ixdshowcase.com/year-end-show-2021-22

Start Date

5-4-2022 4:30 PM

End Date

6-4-2022 5:30 PM

Publication Date

4-5-2022

Description

on Wakkary is a Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Canada where he founded the Everyday Design Studio (eds.siat.sfu.ca). In addition, he is a Professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centred Worlds in the Future Everyday Cluster in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wakkary’s research investigates the changing nature of design in response to new understandings of human-technology relations and posthumanism. He aims to reflectively create new design exemplars, theory, and emergent practices to contribute generously and expansively to understanding ways of designing that are more accountable, cohabitable, and equitable. In this talk, Wakkary shares concepts and theories from his latest book, Things We Could Design For More Than Human-Centered Worlds (2021).

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Apr 5th, 4:30 PM Apr 6th, 5:30 PM

Industry Keynote: Ron Wakkary

Online

on Wakkary is a Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Canada where he founded the Everyday Design Studio (eds.siat.sfu.ca). In addition, he is a Professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centred Worlds in the Future Everyday Cluster in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wakkary’s research investigates the changing nature of design in response to new understandings of human-technology relations and posthumanism. He aims to reflectively create new design exemplars, theory, and emergent practices to contribute generously and expansively to understanding ways of designing that are more accountable, cohabitable, and equitable. In this talk, Wakkary shares concepts and theories from his latest book, Things We Could Design For More Than Human-Centered Worlds (2021).

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