| Title | I Disagree With You Super Politely |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | A Reflection of Attending [to] Futures, One Year Later |
| Contributor | Johanna Mehl (author) |
| Jiye Kim (author) | |
| Tomás Ignacio Corvalán Azócar (author) | |
| Sally Loutfy (author) | |
| Landing page | https://adocs.de/en/buecher/design-theorie-praxis-open-accessebooks/attending-futures-matters-politics-design-education-research-practice |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Johanna Mehl, Jiye Kim, Tomás Ignacio Corvalán Azócar, Sally Loutfy |
| Publisher | adocs publishing |
| Published on | 2023-10-01 |
| Long abstract | On October 25, 2022—roughly one year after the event—conference organizer Johanna Mehl interviewed student members of the conference team Jiye Kim, Tomás Ignacio Corvalán Azócar, and Sally Loutfy. This is part of their conversation. |
| Page range | pp. 23–29 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Johanna Mehl (she/her) is a designer, scholar, and educator interested in the politics and relations that take shape through and around design practices. She holds a B.A. in Communication Design from the Niederrhein University of Applied Science and an M.A. in Art and Design Studies from the University of the Arts Folkwang, Essen. Besides her design, artistic and curatorial practice, she has taught in the fields of digital media, culture studies, and design theory at different design schools across Europe. She holds a research associate position at TU Dresden where she is a PhD candidate at the Chair for Digital Cultures researching the cultural history of environmental design practices. She is an editorial board member of the Design+Posthumanism Network and part of the research group Against Catastrophe.
Jiye Kim (she/her) was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She goes by the name ‘Jane’ too. She has been on a journey of finding her own identity as a designer since moving from Korea to the United Kingdom, and is now living in Köln, Germany. Her identity has been gradually changing due to several multi- cultural experiences and constant self-reflection. She joined a Masters Program, ‘Integrated Design’ at Köln International School of Design (KISD) in March, 2021, and graduated in Feb, 2023 with a master thesis focused on ethical design processes for technological services.
Tomás Corvalán Azócar (they/he) is a Chilean designer, researcher and facilitator interested in queer, feminist and critical approaches to (design) academia. Born and raised in the land nowadays known as Santiago de Chile, Tomás first steps into design were inside a school strongly influenced by the Bauhaus educational system. They hold a B.A. Hons in Design from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a M.A. in Integrated Design at the Köln International School of Design. While looking for an answer to the question How can textile practices improve design education under queer perspectives? Tomás’ recent Master thesis suggests that textile practices can expand design education by recovering traditional Chilean rituals, embracing and bolstering the power of deviating from western ontologies. Their interests lie in design politics, decolonialism, (design) activism and textiles.
Sally Loutfy (she/her) is a Lebanese Architect and Designer interested in the influence of human psychology in architecture and urban space. She was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon; a place that she shares a bitter-sweet relationship with. Her country and the experiences she lived there influence both her work and designs in a very core way. Sally came to Germany in 2021 to pursue her Master’s Degree at KISD in Integrated Design research. Her academic work has revolved for a few years around the effects of trauma and political conflict on the ways in which we design for our built environment. At the moment, Sally is working as a 3D Innovation Architect in Berlin.