Sep 2010
+ In 3rd of September, I will participate in a panel discussion part of "I Care A Lot: A Portable Discussion", at Platina Gallery in Stockholm. The panel will discuss issues around the role of art and design in political contexts.
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May 2010
+ Today, 20th of May, alongside with the opening of Konstfack 2010 Spring Show, A new website which is run by EDG students , and I am in charge of some sections, will be up:
'Experience Design is a response to the urgent question: How might design continue to be relevant within what many are calling the I-Cubed (Information, Innovation, Intangible) Economy? Learn about the first MFA in Experience Design at Konstfack University College of the Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, through the student-run website launched today':
The Experience Design Group
+ I will fly to Genk, a small city in Belgium, where the International Cumulus Conference 2010 will be held.Borderline - Pushing design over the limit" is the title of this Cumulus Conference. My paper - which is a part of the main research project which I am working with- entitled Experience Design as Activism will be present on 27th of May. This paper is about power of experience design in social change and how Experience Design can improve design activism in a more durable way.
+ I am going to Helsinki this week, 22-25 of May to present one of my recent papers: "Protest Artifacts: Objects as Design Activism" at "Fiscar 2010: Nordic conference on Activity theory and the Fourth Finnish Conference on Cultural and Activity Research". This is one part of my bigger research project The Experience of Emancipated Society / When Experience Design Helps Activism.
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March 2010
+ "Mobile Fresh Air" is published on "Design Philosophy Politics" e-zine in Fictions section. This e-zine is a side project of Design Philosophy Papers Journal with great focus on political issues. Design Philosophy Politics aims to make a new feature to publish a series of fictional-conceptual designs to provoke people into thinking about what they buy.
+ I am still struggling with my individual school project: The "[un]comfortable chair". Probably I will come up with the concept until next two weeks.
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Feb. 2010 | No.2
+I finished sustainability course and you can see the outcome here.
Now I'm working on an other individual project which is about execution and torturing and that's a hard challenge for me. This month's travel and books I've read and am reading now are my inspirational sources... something from The Holocaust to Darfur War, from Žižek to Agamben! I'm not sure about the result and still is a naive idea I think!
In other side, I am writing two papers for two design magazines in Iran, one for "Dastavard Magazine" which is about Critical Design and another one for "4Baq Magazine" which is about Experience Design.
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Feb. 2010
+I finished the paper for Fiscar 2010 with this title: "Protest Artifacts: Objects as Design Activism".
Beside school project on "sustainability in design", I've started to write an abstract for another conference. Borderline - Pushing design over the limit is a conference on critical design which will be run by Cumulus in Genk, Belgium.
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Jan. 2010
+Currently I'm working on a new paper for Fiscar 2010.
The theme which I'm working on it is "protest and demonstration artifacts and their roles in social movements".
+At school I am currently attending "That Depends... Sustainability in Design Practice" elective course by Leif Thies now. Outcome of this course will be published at "EDG Practices @ Konstfack" section by end of February.
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