Exploring Critical Making | Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou
Channel: Global Innovation Gathering
Date: 2021-04-07

Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou radically shifts our preconceptions of learning and worldmaking by deeply questioning centuries of enforced believes in a particular idea of progress and its underlying political, social and anthropocentric philosophies, which divorced our imagination from holistic and enduring conceptions. After “Woelab Zero” and “Woelab Prime,” “Tiers” (Thirds) is the project of a 3rd tech-hub configured as a popular school of design resolutely open to its environment, whose objective is above all to be a radical device for global critical questioning of modern human societies. Sénamé will share the process of setting up this incubator of divergent futures.

In the Critical Making project, we want to add scientific insights into the potentials of the maker movement for critical, socially responsible making, and show how these communities can offer new opportunities for young makers of all genders to contribute to an open society via open source innovation. During our kick-off Interactive Workshop: Exploring Critical Making on 25th March 2021, we hosted a conversation with experts of experimental research approaches and makers on how they are using new, different, hands-on research methods to shape the maker community in a more inclusive. Viewers of the livestream used a public Miro board (https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lOhsQoQ=/)  for comments and questions. 
Find out more about the project at https://criticalmaking.eu/ 

Speaker: Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, L’Africaine d'architecture, Lomé / Togo, https://www.lafricainedarchitecture.com/ 

Moderator: Regina Sipos, Technical University Berlin, Berlin / Germany, https://www.arte.tu-berlin.de/