Workshop Schedule
Arts-Based Methods for Generative Friction in Design
DIS2026 Workshop, June, Singapore
Arts-Based Methods for Generative Friction in Design
DIS2026 Workshop, June, Singapore
In the workshop we will explore issues experienced by participants in their own community-based and social justice-oriented collaborative art / design, particularly related to equitable participation, positionality and conflict. Participants will undertake reflective and reflexive exercises to examine their own experiences, followed by a rapid making-reflection-(re)making process to share and discuss insights, to bring conflicting perspectives into dialogue and imagine alternative choices.
Welcome, introductions using position papers as a starting point. Over-view of key theories (eg dissensus, transformative praxis).
The first rapid-making exercise involves each participant creating a 100-second doodle / text box / sketch (etc.) on ideas or associations their representational object evokes in them.
The second rapid-making exercise is focused on reflection. Thinking about the situation described in their position papers, participants create a map identifying hidden assumptions and norms in that situation.
The third rapid-making exercise is reflexive. Participants expand their map through including how their background, identity, values and prior experiences influenced their choices, actions and resultant positions they found themselves in.
Participants form into groups and, with facilitator support, create digtial and analogue artefacts representing the various subjects identified in the morning session. These may be related to individuals, groups, social and/or political tensions.
Participants present what they have made back to the wider group as well as their new insights on the subjects impacting opportunities for constructive conflict and equal positioning of players. We collectively decide the next steps in terms of documenting and disseminating the process, both during the conference and beyond.