Feeling-first Design: Workshop w/ Akshara Dash
Feeling-first Design: Workshop w/ Akshara Dash
Saturday, February 7, 12–3 pm
Second-floor Production Centre, PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W, Saskatoon
This workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to feeling-first design using Figjam, a web-based whiteboard tool. Artist Akshara Dash will share examples of feeling-first design informed by Indigenous and feminist ways of being and guide participants through a creative activity to integrate this strategy into your own practice.
Artist Akshara Dash’s practice critiques post-colonial design systems that prioritize form and function while leaving little space for emotion or lived experience. Dash will present examples from her own web-based projects exploring digital decay, interfaces that resist extraction and optimization, and the use of emotion as a central conceptual tool. Participants will be guided in a collaborative feeling-first design activity in Figjam and take home a step-by-step framework that they can use for their own practice.
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