(Image above from Sahyeh Sorkh / Red Shadow, an experimental short film by Rashin Fahandej.)
Imagination Methodologies Series (on zoom)
DS4SI’s Design Gym will be offering their first online series, Imagination Methodologies.
Wednesdays 6-7:30pm ET (come to any or all), November 9th, 16th, 30th,
Design Dialogues w/ John Sharp, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, and Rashin Fahandej
Can one become better at creativity and imagination or is it simply a gift? In Imagination Methodologies, we’ll talk with three different creatives who use methods and techniques as part of their practice of imagination. Through the sharing of these techniques, we hope to make the case that we can all practice imagination.
John Sharp--November 9th
John Sharp is a designer, art historian, curator and educator. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, art games and non-digital games. Along with Colleen Macklin, John co-directs PETLab (Prototyping, Education and Technology Lab), a research group focused on games and their design as a form of social discourse. He is an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design.
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo--Nov 16th
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo is a Black feminist rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY, with family roots in Cote D'Ivoire and the Congo. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, teaching rap songwriting and feminist sound studies. Enongo is also the Director of Audio for Glow Up Games, a women-of-color led game studio and a member of theKEEPERS, a Hip Hop collective mapping the international contributions of womxn and girls across Hip Hop's 50-year history.
Rashin Fahandej--Nov 30th
Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-American futurist, immersive storyteller, and cultural activist. Fahandej’s artistic initiatives are multiyear experimental laboratories for collective radical reimaginations of social systems, using counter-narratives of care and community co-creation to design equitable futures. Her projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and public collaboration in generating emotional connections to drive social change.
