Feeling-first Design: Workshop w/ Akshara Dash

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.


Tools and materials needed
-Participants don’t need a laptop to participate but may bring one if they prefer to use it to take notes or type responses.
-PAVED has 2 laptops available to use during this workshop. Please contact coordinator[at]pavedarts[dot]ca to reserve one.


Basic skills
This workshop is beginner-friendly.


Register
This workshop is free for PAVED Arts members, $30 for non-members. Purchase/renew your membership here: https://www.pavedarts.ca/purchase-membership/

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