Panel: Blockchain for Designers and Artisans

A panel discussion on the future of truth, labor and society featuring experts in the fields of computational craft, political science, and blockchain

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

An in-depth panel conversation centering on blockchain technology as a new model of social organization. The questions of artistic labor, design process, supply chain transparency, canonical truth in the digital age, and ultimately, the structure of society at large will be discussed at length.

https://youtu.be/KuP8gpgf6ew This is a panel discussion featuring experts in the fields of computational craft, political science, blockchain and design strategy. Blockchain technology is seen as the cornerstone of a decentralized society. From fina

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Bolor Amgalan
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About Bolor Amgalan

Bolor Amgalan is an interaction designer/researcher and a fashion design technologist teaching at Parsons School of Design. Trained as a zero-waste fashion designer, Bolor developed her practice further at Central Saint Martins using speculative design narratives, and yet further at Parsons using computation. She programs hybrid materials that belong to both the digital and analog realms and occupy the space at the intersection of craft values, tangible interface design and embodied interaction.

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Associate Professor of strategic design and management at Parsons; Associate Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy. www.linkedin.com/in/koray-caliskan-b05263a8 Koray Caliskan

Artist, designer, and theorist working at the bleeding edge of AI-generated sculpture and digifacturing. americana.geiringer.work Jeffrey Geiringer

Former journalist at CoinDesk and Quartz. Currently a partner at Amplified Event Strategy and researching social tokens as researcher-in-residence at Rally. www.twitter.com/joonian Joon Ian Wong

Fashion design technologist & interaction designer with research spanning programmable matter, virtual materiality, and craft preservation in VR. www.boloramgalan.com Bolor Amgalan

Jack Wilkinson is a senior strategist at Jam3. He uses speculation, futuring and design to empower imagination and explore what lies across the posthuman horizon." www.speculativenow.com Jack Wilkinson