Depth of Field 2020-21
In 2019-20, we invited a range of guests with the aim of unsettling and excavating how we practice, think and learn about graphic communication design. The events of 2020 have both intensified and lent focus to this ambition. This year’s lecture series will consider questions of the most urgent relevance to the education and industry of graphic communication design, placing them into social, environmental and historical contexts.
This event will raise questions about the agency of graphic designers and other creatives in relation to the technology sector. In 2020, most people are more dependent on digital products and services than ever before. At the same time, for good reasons, we are increasingly scrutinizing their social, cultural, political and ethical implications. Designers and creatives, whether working with, within or around tech, play an integral role in the success of most platforms, hardware, software, services and games, but it is not clear how we should position ourselves in relation.
Jazmin Morris and E Roon Kang will share their different experiences and positionings working as creatives engaged with technology. Jazmin will begin from the perspective of young designers needing to find secure work in an unequal and rapidly changing economy. E Roon will follow this by drawing out some of the daily ethical challenges around tech inherent in everyday graphic design practice from the way we use tools to the decisions we make about who to collaborate with. The discussion will challenge us to take a more active and critical stance in relation to the conflicts and contradictions around tech faced by design students, graduates, professionals and educators.
Jazmin and E Roon will each speak for 15 minutes. This will be followed by a moderated discussion with the opportunity for the audience to contribute questions. This event will be streamed and archived on our YouTube channel, you will need to log in if you would like to participate in the discussion.
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