In this course you will examine and challenge the ways in which we interact with the world by creating fictional scenarios and experimental interventions that explore alternative realities. We will begin by exploring how space is not an inert and a pre-existing given but an ongoing, active production of social and cultural relations. Increasingly this production involves everyday and emerging technologies, which, in turn, have an impact on how we inhabit and interact with these spaces.

Set-up as an intensive studio, the course will encourage you to engage with these dynamic relations in active, embodied and experiment-driven ways. It will serve as a discursive, experimental playground that brings together an eclectic range of theories, concepts and cross media practices, while introducing you to experimental, prototyping and documentation techniques. You will experiment with everyday and emerging technologies to investigate, create and invent embodied practices to question, negotiate and intervene with space. These practices may include but are not limited to architectural and urban interventions, mobile and wearable media, design fictions and cultural probes.