Oran Goral & Shira Shvadron // The Nunaturalists
April 28th, 2021
Assignment #2 // Collage Theme Question
The Nunaturalists
Looking at a future of automated world; No work, only consumption, humans become numb.
The increasing integration between biology and technology raises several questions. How will those new technologies be used and for which purposes? How far could technology and biology be embedded? What will be the consequences of this process on living beings? What social values would be preserved, and what new values will evolve?
The answer to those questions will be determined according to the human condition. A rapid change in this condition occurred in recent years, when the environmental crisis became one of the strongest forces to set the direction of new technologies. Can new technologies supply a solution? Could green technology replace traditional technology? And if the solution is technological, what does it say about this society?
May 12th, 2021
Assignment // Political Spectrum, The speculative social environment
As a backlash to the environmental crisis that has been going for centuries, this society started a dialectic process in which it went back to nature, without neglecting the comfort of technology. In this process, humans started using animals and biological beings as technology; this movement involved the use of animals as technological means instead of technological products that pollute the environment. This approach became possible by new developments that allow a deep intervention in living beings’ genetics, hacking them into human needs. On one hand, this society chooses to perceive their process as “coming back to nature”, but on the other hand, this use of nature as technology exploits animals in a way that has never been seen before. This society is neo-neo-liberal, neo-technological, and post-natural.
June 9th, 2021
Assignment #3 // Speculative Service, Speculative Video scenario
July 7th, 2021
Final Assignment // A Short Speculative HCI Paper