In this Webinar, The New Normal Programme Director Benjamin Bratton will explain how The New Normal think-tank employs tools and approaches from a wide variety of disciplines. He will dwell on curriculum, which is composed of various successive modules, workshops and field trips teaching interpretive, analytic and/or technical skills, eventually culminating into the final projects development phase and their public presentation / broadcasting. Modules are designed in a cumulative process and have specific functions at key times during the programme; snowballing from start to finish, each sets the stage for the module that follows while building on the overall research focus and conceptual agenda of the programme.
Benjamin will also talk about the programme faculty and will elaborate on how the programme 2019 is curated around a series of conceptually interrelated themes and modules: Speculative Megastructures, AI at Urban Scale, Algorithmic Governance, Inverse Uncanny Valleys, Human Exclusion Zones, and others. Rather than structuring the programme chronologically, these overlap and formally and informally guide the overall research of the group throughout the 5 months.
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