Fascinating doctoral seminar today on an iconic paper by the late Salvatore Iaconesi, “Interface and Data Biopolitics in the Age of Hyperconnectivity. Implications for Design.”
The paper makes a strong, convincing claim for interdisciplinarity:
This is a complex process, which involves the aforementioned trans-disciplinary approaches as well as considerations that regard current business models, legislations, human rights, and (often national and international) security. There is no simple way to confront with this type of problem. Rather, it is a problem to be dealt with through complex approaches, combining not only different disciplines and practices, but also society as a whole.
My intution is that even before these different approaches (and disciplines, practices, and skills), there is a preliminary question to be addressed—one concerning the fundamental values that underpin them. This is something Iaconesi does mention, but only briefly and at the very end: “human dignity, freedom and joy, avoiding atomization and loneliness which have become typical of the years we live in.”