Workshop 2. Historical/ProjectiveDesign Modes
Envisioning New Futuring Models: Past,Plurality, and Positionality (09:00-12:00)

• Aim: Evaluate design futuring approaches that acknowledge history and clarify whose voices are included and cared for.
  
• Organisers: Hillary Carey, Rachel Arredondo, Mihika Bansal, Christopher Costes‍
• Contact Organiser: Hillary Carey
• Quota: Minimum of 5; Maximum of 100.
• Brief: This workshop seeks to provide creative fodder for reimagining visualisations of how we might engage futures perspectives in our work. We will begin with a presentations by the facilitators, move into breakout rooms to give participants a chance to talk with others about time, metaphors about time, and positionality, then into quiet individual time to sketch, and finally sharing sessions to learn from each other’s unique and creative perspectives.
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Workshop 3. Alternative Design Modes
Narratives in Biodesign – Bridging Methods, Processes and Tools (18:00-21:00)

• Aim: Demystify biodesign with an overview of the emergent field and initiate professional networking.
  
• Organisers: Sander Välk, Yuning Chen, Livia Kalossaka, Raphael Kim, Celine Mougenot, Larissa Pschetz, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Nurul Ayn Ahmad Sayuti, and Bjorn Sommer.‍
• Contact Organiser: Sander Välk
• Quota: Minimum of 10; Maximum of 100.
• Brief: For details and updates please visit www.bionarratives.com. The workshop will be held online using Zoom, Miro and Gather.town. The workshop is a mix of short talks by organisers, discussions and interactive activities. Registered participants will be asked to complete a short exercise to prepare for the workshop. Details will be emailed one week before the workshop. The soft deadline for registering is 28 November.
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Workshop 4. Social Design Modes
Humans of Interiors (WITHDRAWN)

Workshop 5. Alternative Design Modes
The Art of Regenerative Design (15:00-18:00)

• Aim: Experience arts-based interventions to access feelings, intuitions and senses for diversified ways of knowing and unanticipated discovery.
  
• Organisers: Silje Alberthe Kamille Friis, Annegrete Mølhave‍
• Contact Organiser: Silje Alberthe Kamille Friis
  
• Quota: Minimum of 6; Maximum 24.
• Brief: Before this workshop, please consider a question or theme from a current project, or your design practice, that you would like to work with and explore through this process. Bring your notebook, drawing paper, pens and a lump of clay approximately the size of a tea mug (real clay or plasticine/play-doh). You will be doing individual exercises and work in pairs in break-out rooms. Please prepare your space so you can feel comfortable throughout the drawing and modelling exercises and have tea, coffee and cake, or a snack, ready for the breaks to nurture your creativity.
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Workshop 6. Social Design Modes
‍Diversifying Approaches to Co-Designing the Smart Everyday (15:00-21:00)

• Aim: Explores the goals and values of co-design tools for domestic smart objects and services from a non-Western perspective.
  
• Organisers: Alexa Becker, Benedikt Haupt, Christian Pentzold, Arne Berger, Albrecht Kurze, Dries De Roeck, JesseJosua Benjamin, Simone Mora, Michael B. Heidt‍
• Contact Organiser: Arne Berger
  
• Quota: Minimum 6; Maximum 24.
  
• Brief: The workshop is split into three parts. In the first part, there will be a short presentation on co-design methods and toolkits for the IoT. Furthermore participants will collect and unpack individual and cultural assumptions, values, and goals of “the home” and its relation to the “smart everyday.” In the second part, the participants will try out two co-design methods and toolkits to ideate a novel object or
  service for domestic use. The process will be facilitated by the hosts. Lastly participants and hosts will document and reflect on the designed objects and services. More information will be available closer to the event here.
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Workshop 7. Alternative Design Modes
Governing with Nature: Applying More-than-Human Design to the Management of Shared Urban Green Space (18:00-21:00)

• Aim: Explore how to design the governance of shared resources with nonhuman nature as equal actors.
  
• Organisers: Justin Sacks, Paul Coulton‍
• Contact Organiser: Justin Sacks
  
• Quota: Minimum of 3; No Maximum.
• Brief: What does it mean to govern a shared resource as a more-than-human community, i.e. with nonhuman species and ecosystems as equal actors in decision-making? This workshop will draw on a real-world project involving the collective governance of urban green space. The workshop will be a series of facilitated hands-on activities using design tools to support the creation of a ‘more-than-human commons’. No preparation required. We will review key concepts about the commons and pluriversal design in the workshop, but the following papers are suggested background: Commons and commoning, Commons in the pluriverse, A framework for infrastructuring commons creation. We look forward to seeing you!
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Workshop 8. Critical Design Modes
Tackling Online Empathy Deficits: Exploration of New Methods with Humanities and Social Scientific Concepts (15:00-19:00)

• Aim: Guides participants with fresh perspectives and techniques of creative ideation toward designing for empathy.
  
• Organisers: Will Zhang, Kate Sangwon Lee, Hai Guang Lian, Alex Mitchell, Bow Yiying Wu, Jung-Joo Lee‍
• Contact Organiser: Will Zhang
  
• Quota: Minimum of 15; Maximum 25.
• Brief: Online empathy deficits are often found in social media interactions, where users frequently encounter arguments, misunderstandings, and abuses related to low interpersonal empathy. Empathy deficit phenomena are accelerated and amplified by the interactive affordances of social media platforms (such as interface features and algorithmic structures), where designers can intervene. This workshop explores a new method of harnessing humanities/social scientific concepts to enhance design processes and tackle online empathy deficits by applying psychological science, communications studies, and philosophy. Through playful activities and design tools, we will guide participants towards fresh perspectives and techniques of creative ideation in designing for empathy. The following paper would help set the starting points for a taxonomy of empathic failures.
  Further information on methods, requirements, and preparations for the workshop will be updated here: https://iasdr2021empathy.wordpress.com
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Workshop 9. Critical Design Modes
Gender and Agency: ‘Care’ as a Facilitator for Social Change (10:00-13:00)

• Aim: Reflect upon perceptions of 'care' to develop a design toolkit prototype to instil citizen initiatives and participation.
  
• Organisers: Krity Gera, Andrea Navarrete Rigo, Peter Hasdell‍
• Contact Organiser: Andrea Navarrete Rigo
  
• Quota: Minimum of 9; Maximum of 45.
• Brief: Through this workshop, participants will explore how ‘care’ may promote and prototype a better model for citizen participation through participatory, inclusive, interactive design activities. The workshop is divided into three parts: starting with the formation of three groups that will represent different scales (1) micro, (2) meso, and (3) macro; followed by a parallel discussion and a sharing session on how care could be used as agency to inform design practices and how this conceptual framework could respond to social issues. To attend this workshop, participants should share academic or professional interests related to gender studies and alternative design practice. Before the workshop, registered participants will be provided download access with reference material. For more info please visit: gender-agency.org
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