BAU Master's Degree in Design Research
https://www.baued.es/en/studies/masters-and-postgraduate-degrees/masters-degree-in-design-research
C. de Pujades, 118
08005 Barcelona
"Design Power Society" is a 3-week course. Classes in the master are from Monday to Thursday from 4pm to 7pm. There are 18 students, language is English.
Design, Power and Society
How can design integrate into power, and how
can it become a tool to question it?
• Object politics
• Social studies of science and technology
• Sociotechnique controversies
• The building of publics
• Research with design
12 class hours per week / class 3 hours per day
36 class hours in total
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Class schedule
01 Wednesday February 14 - Introduction (Ruben)
02 Thursday February 15
03 Monday February 19 — (Gabriel)
04 Tuesday February 20
05 Wednesday February 21
06 Thursday February 22
07 Monday February 26 — (Gabriel)
08 Tuesday February 27 — (Marta Camps, thesis)
09 Wednesday February 28
10 Thursday February 29
11 Thursday March 7 — FINAL
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Theme
public space mutual aid / urban disobedience / architecture of necessity / dumpster diving
resource left over from the city / the city as a playground / cartographies of waste / hacking the city
Field trip
bunkers / places where we can find resources in the city such as recycling points / metal scrap yard in poble nou near BAU
Methods
scavenging / cartography / hacking / stealing / counterfeiting / direct action
Outcomes
The keys to the city for all citizens / design barricades with trash / make your own markers / walking through the city w keys / exploring underground spaces / exhibition underground / against gentrification / The most expensive city to buy property in Spain is Barcelona /
Workshops
duplicating keys / copying RFID cards
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Bibliography
Bergholm, Adam, Key Notes on the Unruly City, 2023
Harvey, David, Rebel Cities, 2012
Lefebvre, Henry, The Production of Space, 1974
Architecture of appropriation. On squatting as spatial practice. 2019
Manaugh, Geoff, A Burglars Guide to the City, 2016
Prisoners inventions, 2003
Ferrel, Jeff, Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging, 2005
Eric Hazan - A history of the barricade, 2015
Catherine Flood & Gavin Grindon, Disobedient objects, 2014
Abbie Hoffman, Steal this book, 1971
Artistic references
Ahmet Ogüt ‘Bakunin’s Barricade’