Redesign Days

Traditional design approaches like Human centered design definitely switched the way in which products, services, processes and structures were designed before. On the other hand, design theory and political normativity behind human centered methodology is at least unclear. A lot of perfectly designed products and services like Airbnb, Uber or Facebook have unintended consequences like gentrification, exploitation or voluntary loss of privacy. And this is the point where critical and speculative design and future studies comes into play. Design should better address people as citizens with dreams and not just as consumers with wants. Critical design can comprehensively deconstruct ideologies and secret mechanisms hidden behind products and services. Speculative design and strategic foresight than helps to encourage imagination about the possible futures in both negative and positive way in its conscious political normativity.

Please accept the invitation to lectures by two foreign lecturers, a speculative designer and librarian in Chicago, John Jung, and a future studies and strategic foresight researcher from Melbourne, Bridgette Engeler. Bridgette Engeler will have a lecture at 11 am, John Jung will be at 14 pm on April 27.

John Jung will talk in general about speculative design, distinguishing it from traditional design approaches, illustrating its use in a case study and outlining its practical use in libraries. In her interactive lecture, Bridgette Engeler will introduce - in the Czech context also new - the topic of future studies and strategic foresight, its practical use in planning the visions and missions of libraries in possible future social and political conditions.

Lectures will take place via the Google Meet and if you are interested, fill out the registration form and we will send you more information.