Designing for Collapse

© Peter Hutter

In this workshop, second-semester BA Information Design students present prototypical outcomes from a course running in parallel at FH JOANNEUM as part of the Elevate Festival. The workshop is based on a speculative scenario in which the internet has been switched off permanently and examines how vital signs can be identified within systems under sustained pressure. Students present design artefacts that explore how social relations, communication and everyday organisation might function without digital infrastructures. The works consider how orientation and responsibility are negotiated in the absence of networked systems. Together with the teaching staff, the workshop provides a space for discussion on the role of design in making such conditions readable and debatable.

Teaching staff:
Birgit Bachler (AT)
Andreas Förster (AT)
Chad Reichert (US)