Description
Other Futures
Instructor: Mimi Zeiger
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Short Description: Other Futures looks backwards in order to look forwards. We will take up certain central questions: How do our visions for the future reflect critical values of the present? Whose voices are represented in designed worlds? What is the use value and importance of speculation in architecture, as well as art and literature? Can we use the very design tools of neoliberal and techno-utopian dreaming as an apparatus of resistance?
The class begins retrospectively with discussions about avant-guardist futures from Constant, Archigram, and Superstudio, among others, before launching into territories less explored by the discipline: Afrofuturism, Gulf Futurism, and Latinx and Sino futurisms. We will also explore ecological, feminist, and queer perspectives in our search for utopian counter-narratives and latent architectures. This course is structured around three curatorial workshops, in which students devel