Storytelling is absurdly powerful. The world we know today was shaped by the stories told by those who came before us. The design of spaces, objects, tools or systems; embody the values of their makers. This workshop explores storytelling, not as a tool of speculation, but instead as a self-fulfilling prophecy that shapes our world through its very existence. We will critically explore our hyper-local reality by intimately listening with all senses to the narrative queues surrounding us.
Through telling and participating in story-making activities, designers will be empowered to consider how they make meaning in their own practice. The workshop calls on all senses and all forms of human and non- human agency – inviting us to both sharpen and surpass our logocentric obsession through a multisensory, multimedia approach to building meaning in design.
Kate Armstrong, The Institute for
Advanced Architecture of Catalonia,
Fab Lab Barcelona, Spain.
Keren Yeala Golan, Interior Design
Department, HIT.
