With its grounding in the natural sciences and mathematics, engineering design is often promoted as a neutral practice of solving problems in the public interest. Nevertheless, engineering design as we know it emerged and developed alongside - and has long helped reproduce - relations of capitalism and empire, with all their attending forms of social domination and environmental destruction. Given this history, what then might be the role of engineering in contemporary movements for social and environmental justice? How might engineering be reconfigured to further the cause of liberation - rather than deepen relations of domination?
This session was recorded on February 27, 2023
The Humanistic Design Speaker Series brings up-and-coming scholars from outside to our campus to discuss their efforts in humanistic design. They highlight how broad, yet deep domain expertise can be brought together through design to enhance the human condition.
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