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H組標題：設計下一個自然界
H組工作坊內容簡介：
當前的科技發展以人類探索的知識為基礎，部分甚至還超前科幻想像的進度。然而大部分的人類創作和發明純粹是基於人的意志，對我們居住的環境很不友善。部分原因是我們對自然環境及其系統認識不足。如何才能發明與自然和諧共處的新元素？未來的設計藏在未知的生物現象、結構、模式裡，而且是目前不被重視的生物，或許能從此揭開自然「設計」用途和邏輯之迷。
如何透過觀察、發現、探索周遭自然物種和元素產生新的知識、見解及新的模式？如果破解自然物種或現象的密碼，是否就可重新設計它？
本工作坊鼓勵學員探討存在已知和已發掘的自然界中的複雜工程、現象、數學模式。可能是生物物種，也可能包括實體世界的模式和聲波、星雲、海浪、彩虹、化石等現象。藉由分析形狀生成的原因、表象背後的故事，在微觀和宏觀的時間和空間尺度下，重新詮釋和理解。學員將各自選一個例子，並利用它發明一個誇張或務實的新設備，在很久以後的某個情境派上用場。再加上氣溫上升、人口和資源、食物鏈和掠食者、產業擴張等有衝擊性的事件，鼓勵學員發揮想像力、視覺化，並將靈感轉化為新的有形物，重新設計下一個自然界。工作坊結束時，學員須以視覺和實體物件代表他們的新發現和發明，並提出具有未來性的說明。每一位學員會被指定扮演未來混合物種設計者或創意工程師的角色，替未來的生物科技和其他科學發展提供啟迪人心的素材。
講師簡介：
李璵是一位思辨設計師、創意科技師、跨領域研究人員，專門研究先進科學技術和思辨設計等二新興領域。她以設計作為一種調查方法，實驗新興科技及其可能的應用，並將思想實驗和虛構敘事轉化成有形的作品，引發人們對當前社會及未來的討論。她的合作夥伴有來自不同國家和領域的科學家和工程師。
她的作品收藏於MUDAC博物館，曾於米蘭設計週、米蘭圖象展（Milan Image Faire）、蘇黎世和日內瓦FLUX實驗室、聖艾蒂安法國設計雙年展、深圳設計學會維多利亞和阿爾伯特館等多地展出。
Title for Group H: Design the next nature
Short description for Group H:
Learn from nature and redesign the “nature”.
Current technology development is based on the knowledge we explored, some of them are even overpassed sci-fi had described. But most of the human creation and invention are purely based on human wills and it is very rough and harsh towards the natural world we live in. Part of the reason is our poor knowledge about nature and its systems. How can we invent new elements that harmony with nature? The next design hide beneath the undiscovered and undisclosed phenomenon, structures and patterns in biological species that we human barely pay attention to. These elements might shine the light on the purpose and the logic of nature“ design”.
How to generate new knowledge and insights, new patterns through observation, discovery and exploration of the natural species and elements surround us? If we figure out the secret code of the natural species or phenomenon, can we redesign it?
This workshop encourages participants to dive into these sophisticated engineering, phenomenon, mathematics patterns appear in the natural world they know and discovered. It could be biological species but also could include physical world pattern and phenomenon such as sound waves, nebula, ocean waves, rainbow, fossils…etc. By analyze the reason, cause of its shape, hidden stories beneath its appearance in a micro and macro scale in time and space, reinterpret and understand the language, students will be invited to experiment their own chosen example that could inspire them to invent a new poetic or practical device for a distant future scenario. By adding impactful events such as temperature raising, population and resources, food chain and predators, industrial expansion into the mix, participants will imagine, visualizing and transform their inspiration into a new tangible form, redesigning the next nature. At the end of the workshop, participants are expected to represent their new discovery and inventions through visual and physical objects with futuristic narratives.
The role of every participant of this workshop will be pointed at the designer of future hybrid-species or poetic engineer that provide inspirational material for biotech and other scientific development in the future.
Biography:
Li Yu is a speculative designer, creative technologist and interdisciplinary researcher. Her researches the burgeoning area of advanced science and technology and speculative design. She uses design as a method of investigation, experimenting with emerging technologies and its possible implementation. Her works translate thoughts experiments and fictional narratives into tangible forms, ignite discussion on our current society and its future. She collaborate with scientists and engineers from different countries and disciplines.