Design and Politics of the Multiple (MA)
De erg
Teachers/coordination : Renaud Huberlant, Johnny Leya
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This multidisciplinary master's research workshop questions the mediating devices – objects, environments and interfaces – which mark our uses and guide our practices of their functions. What do books, screens, devices, tools or even constructed spaces make us do? What they have in common is that they are artifacts, technical or symbolic objects shaped by humans with the intention of developing interactions. These artifacts always have an intention as their origin, uses and functions as their destination, and a form as their object. But what is the subject? one would be entitled to ask. This is the question that drives the workshop and the practices that are deployed there by questioning what links the position of the creator to that of the spectator, the reader, the user. And, in this sense, who questions what policy the design that we produce there participates in. Linking multiple and political means, on the one hand, refusing the dominant narrative of binary and unilateral monologue to allow listening to the dialogues that are woven between multiple, fragmented subjectivities, not fixed in immutable identities, and c It is, on the other hand, questioning the capacity to act of multiples, these inanimate objects of design produced in series.
Among the design disciplines, we wish to address editorial practices more specifically. Edition must be considered here in a broader sense. It involves a set of arrangement, translation, formatting and reproduction operations. It extends, as a practice of editing, from printed to digital, from still images to moving images, from layout to spatial layout. The master's degree combines the practices of design and art with the theoretical practices of philosophy of science, cultural, feminist and postcolonial studies.
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Design understood as a mediation device, between uses and functions: a disposition or way of being in the world and of forming society. What relationships do we have with objects, tools, constructions, monuments, furniture (domestic or urban), books or screens without taking into account the stories that originate them and the destinations to which they claim? An intention governs them which claims to guide our uses and shape our lives. We strive to emancipate ourselves from it and offer alternative stories and ways of doing things.
Learn to do things together through the co-construction of a collective mediation system.
Deconstruct the dominant narratives housed at the heart of the objects that govern us.
Undoing and redoing, case study.
Make hypotheses and confront them with verification through experimentation, connection, agency and agency through a device (all terms defined and practiced in the workshop).
Teaching is based on collective research (Master 1) for the benefit of a personal project (Master 2) supported by a final dissertation.
The dynamic of the workshop is based on an educational division into sequences, varying from one to several weeks, punctuated by regular discounts.
This dynamic is shared between group lessons and individual follow-ups.
The end-of-studies jury, composed exclusively of members external to the erg, is the subject of a collective scenography, developed jointly throughout the final year.
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