What would border artifacts reveal if exhibited in a museum? This is one of the questions that has been explored and discussed over the past three years as part of the research project DiNoBord. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration involving ten researchers from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and is part of the prestigious research program Future Challenges in the Nordics. Elena Raviola, Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Professor of Design Management, is leading the project and argues that design research can bring new perspectives to these border issues through novel methods and a specific attention to the material dimension.
– When borders are discussed in politics, the focus is often on aspects like walls or dramatic migration crises. But how are borders materialized? How is work organized between people and machines at and around borders? she says.
Workshop and Seminar
On May 15, DiNoBord is organizing two events at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg in collaboration with HDK-Valand doctoral student Simon Fagéus and his project Artificial Ways of Seeing.
First, a workshop will be held where master's students in design and researchers from DiNoBord, will explore the material life of various objects in a speculative exercise imagining a museum of border artifacts, led by artist Adam James, design professor Onkar Kular and Elena Raviola.
Later, a public seminar will take place where international researchers will discuss the intersection of borders, new technologies, and surveillance. Participating in the conversation, which will be moderated by Elena Raviola and Onkar Kular, are the Italian sociologist Elena Esposito, criminologist Vanessa Barker, and researcher and artist Jacek Smolicki.
Read more: Läs mer: https://rohsska.se/utstallningar/designhistorier/super-o/borders-surveillance-and-technologies/
