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title: Critical Transfeminist Design 
page_type: course
track: Reflection
course_type: Short Course
feature_img: /assets/images/2023-24/year-1/t-3/transfeminist-design.png
img_caption: Credit | Mary Maagic
faculty:
    - laura-benitez
ects: 2
---

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## Syllabus

In these two sessions, we will tackle an introduction to a transfeminist perspective applied to design and experimental practices. How does it affect operating from a transfeminist perspective in design? Is it possible to design differently? What is? What are the ethical issues raised by these approaches? Is it possible to relate differently to technologies and through technologies? What happens to presences? And who is accountable for absences? Who do we relegate to a condition of subalternity? How do we deal with epistemic violence?

**Keywords: Critical Design, Transfeminism, Ethics of Care, Biohacking, Accountability**

### Learning Objectives

- To understand the importance of the place of enunciation in Design.
- To learn about different transfeminist proposals applied to design and experimental research. 
- Understanding the importance of accountability
- To know the basic principles of the so-called Ethics of Care

### Methodological Strategies
- Lectures
- Debates
- Practical lab exercises

## Schedule

=== "Day 1 - Laura"

    - Introdution to subalternity 
    - Epistemic Violence 
    - Metaphysics of lack 
    - Introduction to transfeminism

=== "Day 2 - Ce & Laura"

    - Transhackfeminism and Ethics 
    - Accountability 
    - Wetlab practice

=== "Day 3 - Ce & Laura"

    - WetLab practice 
    - Queer Atlas 
    
## Deliverables

No special deliverables are expected. 

## Grading Method

| Percentage  | Description                         |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------|
| 50%         | Participation                       |
| 50%         | Self-assessment    |

!!! ects "European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)"

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## Additional Resources

- [Barad, K (2013). What is the measure of nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. Nº099. Documenta - 13.](https://deeptimechicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/barad-k-what-is-the-measure-of-nothingness.pdf)
- Collective, C., Chatzidakis, A., Hakim, J., Litter, J., & Rottenberg, C. (2020). The Care manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. Verso Books.
- [Design Justice Network](https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles)
- Maggic, Mary. 
  [Estrozine 1](https://files.cargocollective.com/c781072/estrozine-1.1.pdf)
  [Becoming with Funghi](https://files.cargocollective.com/c781072/BecomingFungi2.pdf)
- Papadopoulos, D., De La Bellacasa, M. P., & Myers, N. (2021). Reactivating elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice. Duke University Press. 
- Preciado, P. B. (2018). Countersexual manifesto. Columbia University Press.
- Puig de la Bellacasa, M (2017) Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.
- [Spivak, G. (1988) Can the Subaltern Speak? Die Philosophin 14 (27):42-58.](https://archive.org/details/CanTheSubalternSpeak )

## Faculty

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