Communication and humans UvA and Rietveld students
The biggest challenge we face is to understand the way our communication cultures will interfere with the way we will act and be as humans in the future. This was the topic of the Eurolab we did with students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University of Amsterdam in a honoursprogram. The synergie between these two groups is very high on designing possible futures. They draw four interesting ways of seeing the human in the communication context. The enlighted character has overcome the opposition between the revolutionairy rebel and the pompuous consumer. This character knows it is living in a world in which real and hyperreal are no longer separated, it embraces the structures that determines us, it will have a higher awareness. The transhuman embraces technology and understand the fundamenst of our communication. It sees cultures as a way of communication: new technology is incorporated in communicationspheres. The post utopian learning agent understands that we need to re-learn to use our lost senses to intensify our communication with nature and all it inhabitants. The way to get out of our crisis is to reprogramm ourselves into communicative sensibility. The momologue transhuman sees a strong value in making the world an esthetic experience using our inner and outer senses. Chips and extra sensorial devices create infinite opportunities for enriched human experiences.