Organized by 4T (Design and Design History Society), Ethics of (re)Production conference will take place on 12-13th of May in İzmir Center of Architecture.
This year’s symposium focuses on the ethics of [re]production in design and throughout design history. Papers are focusing on one of the following thematic categories or their intersections in the context of different fields including but not limited to design and cultural studies.
RE-PRODUCTION OF IDENTITY: ORIGINAL, COPY, MIMICRY
• How can the relationship between original and copy be re-interpreted in the digital age?
• What are the cultural implications of the cult of the original in modern societies?
• What is the impact of design in the construction and production of identities?
• How can mimicry be used as an ethical design strategy?
• How does the fluidity of digital age mobilize fluidity of identities?
RE-PRODUCTION AND AUTHOR-ITY:OPEN SOURCE, CO-CREATION, HACKING
• “What is an author” in the digital age?
• How can hacking be ethically located in the field of design?
• What is the role of open source initiatives in design?
• What are emancipatory potentials of co-creation today?
• How design can be organized as a cooperative process?
RE-PRODUCTION AS REALITY, SIMULATION, HYPER-REALITY, AUGMENTED REALITY
• How do representations produce social and cultural realities?
• To what extent does design contribute to the management of perception?
• What are the potentials of simulacrum as a denial of the original / copy model?
• How are virtual and simulated environments consumed in contemporary societies?
• What are the ethical issues that are mobilized in new understandings of reality?
