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Biometrics, Dualities, and Fluid Identities:

Decentralized Response towards Modern Normalization of Biopower

How do the mechanisms of biopolitics create normalized bodies and identities, and what are the real stakes of this new biopolitical power? How can fluid identities be used as a decentralized speculative response intervening in how bodies are seen?

From Situated Design to Opacity: Designing Diversity in the Age of Global Diaspora

As designers reveal their own background, making, identity, and worldview in the media representations of their works, situated design embodies both the danger of being perceived as universal and causing conflicting responses from opposite ideologies. How can we resolve situated design’s danger of “revealing too much”, reconcile the internal conflict of being both too specific and not specific enough, and in the end find a common consensus?

Design Thinking and its Cultural Imposition

How is design thinking, as a popular design method, derived from specific instances and impositions in the contemporary US environment? Can it become a one-for-all solution that seamlessly fits into other less dominant cultures?