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Design in The Posthuman Age

RISD, Graphic Design · Spring 2022

Co-taught by Chris Woebken and Anastasiia Raina

Investigations of microbial perception and machine vision become graphic and physical experiments that challenge the human viewpoint as design’s default.

Student work & course documentation

Microscope image of a translucent organism with short segmented legs. Magnified image of a microscopic organism with a prominent eye-like structure and segmented appendages. A pale, branching microscopic form against a dark field. A magnified image of textured biological forms in yellow and orange.

Project & course documentation

Students work with microscopes and specimens around a laboratory bench.A computer screen displays a detailed three-dimensional model of an insect.A laboratory computer displays a striped close-up image beside scientific imaging equipment.A person uses a handheld scanner on a small object inside a white tabletop photography enclosure.
Spring 2022 · RISD Graphic Design

Diatom Perception

Student project by Sadia Quddus and Dougal Henken · Spring 2022

Sadia and Dougal imagine the experience of a diatom through color, gesture and projected imagery. Drawing on research into how diatoms respond to changes in their environment, the installation explores an intuitive, empathetic way to approach climate change through a nonhuman perspective.

Diatom Perception poster by Sadia Quddus and Dougal Henken combines a large microscopic form with colorful graphic patterns.
Diatom Perception · Poster
A participant raises a hand toward a colorful projected diatom in a darkened room.
Installation documentation
Spatial diagram of Diatom Perception shows a projected diatom and a visitor within a marked installation area.
Installation study: projection and visitor placement

Course & program documentation

Course outline

Investigations of microbial perception and machine vision become graphic and physical experiments that challenge the human viewpoint as design’s default.

elective · graduate · Chris Woebken — Co-teacher · Anastasiia Raina — Co-teacher · Course website · Selected documentation · Original course syllabus

Assignments: Designing Futures; Umwelt; Machines Have Eyes.

Design in the Posthuman Age

- SS22, RISD GD
co-taught with Anastasiia Raina

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