Jun 26, 2023
Cyborg Troubles | Lecture by Johanna Mehl at Design Research Lab Berlin | July 2023
John McHale, Telemath, collage, ca. 1958
Cyborg Troubles.
Ecological Design and the Technological Fix
July 06, 2023 | @ Design Research Lab Berlin
In this talk I will interrogate two ecological cyborgs that look alike and sound alike, though they are two very different creatures. One is stargazing, the other one earthbound. One is confined in small spaces, the other exposed and open. One is a prosthetic god, one is trans-corporeal. Survival and vulnerability. Technocracy and insurgence.
Tracing my encounters with critical posthumanism throughout my practices as a designer, scholar, and educator, I will introduce the work of the Design+Posthuman Network and talk about my current research about environmental design practices via the cyborgs they accommodate.
This lecture is part of the Virtual Colloquium: Post-human Design – a critical reflection of current design positions, the role of the human, non-human agents, infrastructures, and processes.