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Digital Life contributes to Design Research Society in Bilbao

21-03-2022

For DRS 2022, Somaya Ben Allouch, lecturer at Digital Life, will travel to Bilbao this Summer. From June 25. to July 3. the (hybrid) congress 'Design Research Society' will take place: an international setting including keynotes, various workshops, a PhD event and this time even DRS Labs. Somaya Ben Allouch is chairing the theme track 'AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards a New Set of Design Ideals' as part of the research project DCODE.

Track Content

Which questions can you expect in this theme track? How can design, as an interdisciplinary field of research and practice, anticipate the digital transformation of society powered by data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence? How can we form an understanding of the different agencies involved—human and artificial—and create the conditions for sustainable human-machine relations and co-performances?

Inclusive and responsible digital futures call for fundamentally new design ideals and professional practices. This requires combining advances in engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities to provide the necessary connection in design between human experience (one-to-one relations) and the societal system (end-to-end relations). The crafting of agency must be positioned as foundational to design today just like function was critical to industrial design.

This track welcomes contributions addressing this call from the perspective of: (1) anthropological study and principled engineering of algorithms; (2) design of deliberative and responsive forms of interaction with and across decentralized systems; (3) inclusive, multi-sided approaches to value creation in data-driven business models; (4) digital sovereignty and democratic governance of data and algorithms; (5) future design practices upholding anticipatory and responsible innovation approaches.

Let us know if you are also interested in the Design Research Society and let's meet in Bilbao this year!