22 23 3 2 1 # 1 8 # 1 9 MAKEup By Andy Milligan Taking inspiration from thecreative freedomoffered through asemic writing, (a hybrid artform that weaves words and images together), this sculptural workshop aligns conceptually with existing research precedents such as experience prototyping (Buchenau & Fulton Sur, 2000) and improvisational making in theatre. My current research uses sculpture to reframe the interior as an expanded practice that plays with artefacts of the interior and exterior landscape. I propose to engage Masters students with speculative sculptural approaches that employ simple studio materials, e.g., paper, card, tape, string, pens/pencils, 3D sketching and playful object-making with thoughtful, poetic processes such as asemic making. This offers an inventive attention to the workshop themes towards expanding our understanding of critical design through emotive and expressive experimentation. These are valuable alternatives to the established representational conventions in design education and practice, that mostly occur near the end, not at the start of a project. By making from the start, by feeling our way through materials and responses as repeated acts of enquiry, we can problem ‘find’, and problem ‘solve’ in an active, rigorous exploration that unlocks creative possibilities to provide students with flexible and sustainable low-fi tools to develop new methods of identifying and framing future issues. If I knew then, what I knownow By Ko Nakatsu Critical and speculative design is usually about the future. I’d like us to look at the past. And redesign the past to learn about the present. If the combustion engine was not popularized, what would the world look like? If we never discovered the Covid vaccine, how would our world look differently? If technology in Egypt had advanced toour current knowledge, will the Pyramids look like the Pyramids? The workshopweek will offer individual assignments as well as a group assignment. We will start with a personal project and look to redesign things from our own past. We will then work in groups to identify, research, and redesign artifacts/ environments/monuments/rituals of the past with a modern perspective. Howwould we design things differently? The last project will look at the past from a future perspective. What will the future say about us? What will they think was ridiculous? Howwould the future humans, redesign the current now? 1
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