This course is set up as a discussion-based research workshop through group and pair work, involving debate, pitching & storytelling, which attempts to understand the sophisticated power structures and influential visual forces behind the consumer choices we make in our daily lives. It is a way to look at the stories behind both industry and products, while exploring clearly the needs, wants and desires that drive our decisions both collectively and individually. It is also a way to rethink how the sheer speed of our current era serves as an input to an access that invariably leads to an unmitigated output of excess. From the AI driving architectural firms or Hollywood films, to the socio-economic levers behind Fast Fashion, Big Ag or Big Data, we will cover a series of topics that will create a clearer speculation of what has been, but more importantly, what is to come.
- Teaching coordinator: Covington Earlwyn
- Teaching coordinator: Langlois Laura Hilary