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Scaffolding Emergent Futures: From Communities to Infrastructures
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Abstract: Design researchers and practitioners have long been interested in shaping futures through objects, systems, and environments. This interest seems to be ubiquitous and is highly visible in industry, popular culture, and scholarly knowledge production. At the same time, local communities, particularly in the U.S., have been dealing with pressures of disinvestment in public and social services, along with the encroachment of privatization and commercial interests. This created an acute need for communities to foster alternative ways of being and knowing, opening emergent futures that are less visible but just as impactful. How might designers notice these future-making practices? Is there a role for design to take part in them? In this talk, we will explore some theoretical and methodological possibilities to answer these and other questions about design speculation and future making.
Bio: Sandjar Kozubaev is a researcher, designer and educator. He currently works at Intuit Mailchimp, a marketing technology company, as lead Strategist & Researcher. His areas expertise includes design research, participatory design, service design, and futures studies. Sandjar has worked with Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, automotive and other industries as well as non-profit organizations. His scholarly research focuses on civic and social design and emergent community-based alternative design practices.
Sandjar has a BA and MS in economics from Tashkent Oriental Studies Institute (Uzbekistan) and University of St Andrews (Scotland), respectively. He also has an MBA in Design Strategy from California College of the Arts. He holds a PhD in Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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- Created By:Walter Rich
- Created:08/20/2024
- Modified By:Walter Rich
- Modified:08/27/2024
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