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Vanishing technology, science fiction as theory, speculative design and the technological imagination
Sean Michael indulges in speculative expeditions into the technological imagination. His recent work follows three major strands:
⢠Investigation of the ways that technologies vanish — receding into obsolescence, sinking into the infrastructural, or becoming transparent through ubiquity.
⢠Speculative thinking and the design of futures/the futures of design. How can we use the relation between the speculative and the actual to build the kinds of worlds we would want to live in?
⢠āRecreative practiceā ā a proposed research method where media archaeology, speculative design and a material-cultural semiotics of technology are synthesized through a material and semiotic practice of bottom-up investigation and re-making significant technical objects. How can intentional future-making can happen through intentional past-making?
My Courses
MTEC1101 ā Design Foundations I ā SP2025
This course is the first in a two-part series for Emerging Media Technology majors, aimed at equipping students with the fundamental concepts, skills, and processes of design. Through project-based learning, students will explore how design integrates creativity, critical thinking, and technical skills to address real-world challenges. The mission is to foster versatile thinkers and makers who can adapt to a rapidly changing technological landscape. Design is more than aestheticsāit is a process of problem-solving, communication, and innovation. At its core, design involves identifying needs, generating creative solutions, and crafting meaningful experiences. Design Foundations I introduces students to these principles, laying the groundwork for careers in digital and interactive media.
MTEC1101-HD88 – Emerging Media Foundations – Fall 2024
This course is an introduction to emerging, interactive multi-media technology with a focus on interdisciplinary, project-based, cooperative learning. Students will be immersed in the protocols and processes of emerging and interactive media design, including: idea development, research, documentation, presentation, prototyping, and production, which will serve them in the face of rapid changes in technology. Students will explore basic theoretical and applied concepts of audio, visual, haptic, immersive, sensory and interaction design through creative group projects, visiting professionals, field trips and online documentation of their work.
MTEC1101-HD88 – Emerging Media Foundations – Spring 2024
This course is an introduction to emerging, interactive multi-media technology with a focus on interdisciplinary, project-based, cooperative learning. Students will be immersed in the protocols and processes of emerging and interactive media design, including: idea development, research, documentation, presentation, prototyping, and production, which will serve them in the face of rapid changes in technology. Students will explore basic theoretical and applied concepts of audio, visual, haptic, immersive, sensory and interaction design through creative group projects, visiting professionals, field trips and online documentation of their work.
MTEC1101-HD88 – Emerging Media Foundations – Fall 2023
This course is an introduction to emerging, interactive multi-media technology with a focus on interdisciplinary, project-based, cooperative learning. Students will be immersed in the protocols and processes of emerging and interactive media design, including: idea development, research, documentation, presentation, prototyping, and production, which will serve them in the face of rapid changes in technology. Students will explore basic theoretical and applied concepts of audio, visual, haptic, immersive, sensory and interaction design through creative group projects, visiting professionals, field trips and online documentation of their work.
MTEC1101-HD88 – Emerging Media Foundations – Spring 2023
This course is an introduction to emerging, interactive multi-media technology with a focus on interdisciplinary, project-based, cooperative learning. Students will be immersed in the protocols and processes of emerging and interactive media design, including: idea development, research, documentation, presentation, prototyping, and production, which will serve them in the face of rapid changes in technology. Students will explore basic theoretical and applied concepts of audio, visual, haptic, immersive, sensory and interaction design through creative group projects, visiting professionals, field trips and online documentation of their work.
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