dayoungl Looking Outwards – 08

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For this week’s Looking Outwards, I chose to study the work of Sands Fish who is currently researching at a MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media Group. He introduces himself as both an artist and a researcher whose interests lie in the field of computer science and design. I thought his works would be interesting to investigate because his works lie closely to the environment of CMU where I’m studying design. I thought it would be interesting to learn about his works and try to identify with some of the design practices I am learning and doing here in CMU.

For his Eyeo 2017 lecture, he focused on “Building Parallel Realities”. Sands Fish specifically focused on futures and how speculative designs can contribute to ” shift us into another reality via objects and devices that aren’t born of the status quo, or of our own time or place”. Mainly, his lecture focuses on the ways to integrate individuals from different backgrounds into one. In this talk, Sands explores how, using design, art, and media, we can embody ideas and worlds in objects, and look critically at our assumptions about how our world has to be. He details his work at the MIT Media Lab building provocative police futures to question who participates in this design space, and how we might create more humane alternatives.