Prof. Dr. Kit Braybrooke is a transmedia designer-artist and social scientist working globally to explore how systems make worlds. Their practice asks how technological innovation can invite more-than-human networks (animal, vegetal, machine, and algorithmic) to walk together across new terrains. At IXDM, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, they are Professor and Head of MA Transversal Design, a new MA which decolonises design by integrating critical and creative practices across society, ecology and technoscience to invite radical proposals for worlds in transition. They also direct the critical design studio We&Us, which since 2020 has explored co-creation for systems change with local communities in between Europe, Asia and North America.
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Prof. Dr. Kit Braybrooke
Professor and Head of MA Transversal Design
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Thu 17 – Sat 19 October 2024
HGK Basel & Freilager-Platz
Free Entry!
The public Talks & Panels program of MESH Festival, co-curated by members of IXDM Research, the Critical Media Lab and HyperWerk, revolves around the approaches to “(Re)Tooling the Future”. Tracing the (broken) links between early net cultures, metaverses, and the xtended realities of current geopolitics, the speakers and panelists revisit memory as a site of utopian futurity and potential “operating systems of a larger order” (Tara McPherson).
With keynotes and talks by Ruha Benjamin, Shaka McGlotten, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Clemens Apprich, Paco Calvo and many more. All free and open to all.
Dr Kit Braybrooke will be Professor and Head of the new MA programme Transversal Design at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) of the HGK Basel starting 1 August 2024.