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title: Designing The Next Billion Seconds
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## Syllabus

Following a collective learning-by-doing approach, the students will explore, discuss, reflect, ideate, and exchange perspectives, questions, and thought experiments, while exercising their collective imaginations with long-term, critical and planetary mindsets to navigate the complexity, scale, and speed of change of the multidimensional implications that the digital economy has in the environmental emergency.

Using [The Everything Manifesto](https://www.iam-internet.com/everything) as a meta-brief, participants will have the opportunity to learn how to use hypothetical questions to develop useful fiction stories about how everyday life can change in the next billion seconds, following methodologies where they can practice collective ideation, decision making, and other collaborative approaches.

## Deliverables

Digital posters + Proto–videos.

## Additional Resources

[The Everything Manifesto](https://www.iam-internet.com/everything)

[‘Provisions - Observing & Archiving COVID-19’ by Site Magazine](https://www.thesitemagazine.com/covid19provisions)

[‘Slowdown Papers’ by Dan Hill](https://medium.com/slowdown-papers)

**'Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime'** by Bruno LaTour

‘Poetics of Relation’ by Édouard Glissant

‘The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins’ by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

‘Everything is Someone’ by Simone Rebaudengo and Joshua Noble

‘Black Quantum Futurism Theory & Practice, Volume I’ by Rasheedah Phillips

‘Beyond Nature and Culture’ by Philippe Descola

‘Stories of your Life and Others’ by Ted Chiang

[‘A question of tech’](https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/posts/une-erreur-de-tech)  by Gauthier Roussilhe

‘The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900’ by David Edgerton

[Logic Magazine](https://logicmag.io/)

[‘Goodbye Uncanny Valley’ ](https://alanwarburton.co.uk/goodbye-uncanny-valley)  by Alan Warburton

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