This document provides instructions for students to prepare and present mini critical design projects related to sleep and its place in society. Students are asked to focus on 1-2 projects, experimenting with critical futures ideas and ways of making projects. They should create 2-4 objects/elements for each project and explain them in a digital presentation or printout, including videos or files. The presentations will be assessed based on the objects created, the presentation, and the content/reasoning. Students are to upload their presentations and any documentation into a shared folder by a certain date.

2. SLEEPER
CELLS

3. 1
video
Thomas Thwaites

4. recipe for speculative critical projects
must have
-relevance to society/audience
-depart from the expected/known
-technical detail/truth
-convincing method of communication
-twist/critique/moral dilemma
can have
-humour/absurdity
-real outcome/completely fictional
-seems like the everyday/like real
-specific tone of delivery

5. you have to find what you like
about these projects and emulate it
yourself.
what questions do you want to ask?
what are you passionate about?
if you consider an audience - how do
you want to influence them?

6. consider
Brandon’s presentation of Rayfish
Bella’s presentation of the yawning
Jessie’s article which fooled us

10. film

11. You are traveling down a railroad track
on a train car. On the tracks in front
of you, there are 5 people tied to the
tracks. However, there is a lever at the
front of the car that can allow you to
switch tracks before reaching those
people. But on the other set of tracks
is a single person tied down.
So do you switch tracks, saving more
people, but directly causing the death
of that person? Or do you suspend
judgment and let things run their
course?

12. what is your moral conundrum on sleep?

13. make a mind map of your first 3 projects
notate the different elements and how
they interconnect.
find the gaps.
indicate the position of presenter,
audience, and possibly second audience

14. the project
believability
critique
of society
futures
structure/
devices
sharpness
validity
describe the
problem
recognise
privilege
relevance
risk/reward
now/future
critical design
list (DnR)
economic
social
political
technological
environmental
enough connection
to the real
fit into or break
apart the cone
graphs from
the card game
utopia/dystopia
discussion
how much
explanation
is required?process
media
delivery
context +story --> objects/situation
presentation
in school vs
proposed
presentation
i want to
believe
communication
research
masks/
techniques

15. scenario
social
political
economic
ecological
technological
object
dator’s 4
futures
starting from using considering developing
card game
critical design
freeform
sleep
sleep
articles

16. • suspension of disbelief
• fourth wall
• possible
• probable
• impossible
• preferable
• audience
• future/now?
• utopia
• dystopia
• empathy
• foresight
• political
• economical
• ecological
• media
• artefact
• performance
• hypothetical
• imaginable
• real/fake
• rhetoric

19. individual
state
group/cult/com
pany
m
etaphysical

20. 3
read article I will email -
‘critical everything’

21. mid semester
7 september
Christian Nicholas from
Sleep centre at University of
Melbourne.

22. 10 mins of presentation and
discussion each.
Start 4:30 sharp...
upload presentation to
google drive (you should
have access - tell me before
tomorrow if you don’t)
BEFORE noon on the day.

23. present your mini
projects.
should have 2-4
objects/elements/
videos digital files for
each mini project,
with accompanying
explanation or layout.
can have digital
presentation/printout,
video etc
I suggest you focus on
one or two projects, and
only skim over the others
need to see
experimentation with
ideas/ways of making
critical futures projects,
trying new things,
suspending disbelief.
working with this matrix...

24. the project
believability
critique
of society
futures
structure/
devices
sharpness
validity
describe the
problem
recognise
privilege
relevance
risk/reward
now/future
critical design
list (DnR)
economic
social
political
technological
environmental
enough connection
to the real
fit into or break
apart the cone
graphs from
the card game
utopia/dystopia
discussion
how much
explanation
is required?process
media
delivery
context +story --> objects/situation
presentation
in school vs
proposed
presentation
i want to
believe
communication
research
masks/
techniques

25. please name all files with
your last name first....
remember, the link is to
sleep and its place in
society.
What will be assessed?
- Objects
- presentation
- content/reasoning
I will not take objects with
me, upload a combination of
your presentation and any
other documentation - i.e
images of your objects, links
to videos or websites etc. in
a single PDF to the shared
folder.

27. I will be uncontactable in
the next two weeks, so any
questions - ask them now...