PMCG-110 Speculative Futures: Biology, Health, an

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• PMCG-110-01

Breakthroughs in technological capabilities relating to gene editing, robotics, and AI are anticipated to greatly change the way we live. How might we challenge new technologies to respond to real human needs, the undervalued power of playfulness, and the tricky, tangled problems affecting people globally? Students will imagine new realities that might allow for engagement with the life forms all around us. How does a microscopic being feel? If an infectious agent could see, how would it see? Instruction will include presentations and guided discussions covering the works of artists and designers who have used art to conceptually respond to wicked problems, including infectious disease, decreasing clean water resources, and endangered species.