Design in a Socio-Cultural Context contain both studio work and individual work.

The core of the course is to work with a project situated at a concrete site. Within this context you commit to what is unfolded and found through experimentation, improvisation and mapping. The entanglement of stakeholders at the site, human as well as nonhuman, will be part of forming your design.

Design in a Socio-Cultural Context is a nine week long course. (Followed by the third Pool run by Judit Seng).

Image: Georgia O´Keeffe Reading, Glen Canyon, 1961. Todd Webb Archive

 

The course syllabus.

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Schedule

See the Course Summary further down on this page. 

Please do not use Time Edit, since locals and other details will change in relation to the development of the covid pandemic. The course schedule is preliminary up until two weeks before the start of the course, changes might come. 

 

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Literature List

Knowledge and understanding about design as a sociocultural phenomenon:

Towards Relational Design_ Design Observer.pdf

Alice Rawsthorn: Design as an Attitude (Links to an external site.)

 

Read until > Book circle 1 on Thursday 4th of March :

Lury, C., Wakeford, N. & Economic Social Research Council, 2014. Inventive methods : the happening of the social, p. 185 Probes

Fortnum, R., 2009 Reader in Fine Art, University of the Ars London and Research Fellow, LICA, Lancaster University 

(If you wish to read more from the same author and topic see: Fisher, E., Fortnum, R. & Kettle's Yard Gallery, 2013. On not knowing : how artists think, London: Black Dog Publishing.)

 

Read until > Helena Hansson lecture Monday the 22th of March:

Sennett, R., 2012. Together : the rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, p. 199-220 The workshop: Making and repairing

Latour, B. & Ebooks Corporation, 2005. Reassembling the social an introduction to actor-network-theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, UK, p. 63-86 Objects too have agency

 

Read this relating to Site (not mandatory reading):

Val Plumwood, 2008. Australian Humanities Review, vol. 44, p.139-150 Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling

 

PDFs with most texts will be available at course start.

 

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Register for your courses for enrollment

To be considered a student, you must be registered on your course. You must also be registered to be able access all course material published in Canvas.

You can register the week before the start of the course up until Monday of the course start week.

Via the Student Portal you can register and see which registration options you have (direct linkLinks to an external site.). 

If you have problems with the registration please contact hdkadmission@hdk.gu.seor admission@akademinvaland.gu.se. 

 

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Student Portal

The university's Student PortalLinks to an external site. gathers information and services for you as a student. 

Under My Studies you will find local study information from your department.