Author: Lareina Wang

  • Complex systems, collective practices to build different worlds

    The current week’s captivating learning investigates the intricate trap of human culture, innovation, the climate, and their connections, fabricating a complex however interconnected image of the cutting-edge world. It gives us a better approach to grasp social relations – entertainer network hypothesis (Subterranean insect). Subterranean insect accentuates the equivalent significance of non-human substances (innovation, material, and so on) and people in shaping social relations. This hypothesis challenges conventional human-focused social speculations, accentuating the communications among human and non-human entertainers that should be considered while thinking about friendly designs. It caused me to understand that whether it’s innovative turn of events, ecological change, or the development of social associations, it expects us to cross the limit among human and non-human to grasp these perplexing organizations of collaborations.

    The class explores how to build organizational resilience through collective practice, especially in times of crisis. Mitchell’s emphasis on the importance of happiness and enduring strength got me thinking about how to cultivate these qualities on an individual and collective level for the challenges I may encounter in the future. Collective practice is not only about how to work together, but also about how to think and feel together, and how to interact with broader social and environmental systems. In addition, from the perspective of feminism and technology, it explores the relationship between humans and machines, and the impact of this relationship on gender, identity and social structure. As a fusion of human and machine, Cyborg symbolizes the possibility of crossing traditional boundaries, including the boundaries between human and non-human, natural and artificial. Haraway’s insight inspired me to think that in a world where technology is increasingly advancing and the boundaries between human and non-human entities are becoming increasingly blurred, we need to rethink how these relationships shape our world and self-identity.

    As technology advances, the ethical case of OpenAI’s use of Kenyan workers in developing ChatGPT today reflects the inequalities in globalized production models, while also highlighting the ethical challenges in AI development. This has led me to reflect on how, as members of a global Internet society, we can ensure that the development of technology is both fair and responsible, especially when dealing with human relationships with non-human entities such as AI. I am deeply aware that the modern world is a network of complex systems that include a diversity of human and non-human actors. In this network, each entity depends on each other and together affects the operation and development of the system. As part of this system, we need to cultivate boundary-crossing thinking that focuses not only on interactions within humans, but also on understanding the complex relationships between humans and non-humans, the natural and the artificial.

    Interactions between society and the natural world, between humans and non-humans, form the basis of ecosystems and affect the health and stability of the planet. Non-human actors must be taken into account. This means that when dealing with environmental issues, making policy or conducting scientific research, humans need to recognize symbiotic relationships with non-human entities and the role of these entities in forming social relationships.

  • Art reshapes the future of work

    The current week’s examinations come from various viewpoints, giving a rich viewpoint on craftsmanship, social change and the job of the person in it. The bits of knowledge into issues of race and class featured how craftsmanship and culture can uncover and consider the set of experiences and present of social disparity and persecution. These works caused me to understand that workmanship isn’t just a method for individual articulation, yet additionally a device for testing and reshaping social designs. Through human expression, we can uncover minimized and overlooked voices and advance conversation and activity on civil rights. Then again, books and telling materials, for example, Your Options at Work give viable direction to assist with figuring out freedoms as well as expectations in the work environment. This book advises me that comprehension and maintaining a singular’s more right than wrong to work is a basic move toward accomplishing civil rights and fairness. These materials investigate how people act under friendly tension, stressing the significance of individual organization – the capacity to think and act autonomously even with unfairness and strain.

    Further, the cases and readings investigate how specialists have resisted the popularized and regulated craftsmanship world by leaving the creation and show of their work by depicting the activities of workmanship strikes and social fights. These activities underscore the craftsman as a specialist of the laborer and the chance of interceding and changing social and social frameworks through imaginative practice.

    Subsequently, the connections among people and frameworks comprise an intricate snare of cooperations that both characterize the singular’s workplace and reflect more extensive social and social designs. According to the viewpoint of individual organization, the work scene is a stage for people to show their capacity, accomplish self-esteem and seek after profession objectives. Along these lines, it is vital to comprehend and guard your privileges in this cycle. Through this point of view, the connection between the individual and the framework depends on the association of freedoms as well as limitations, expecting people to comprehend and submit to the standards of the framework while safeguarding their own advantages. The prevalent burdens and assumptions that people face in the framework. Under this tension, keeping up with individual office – the capacity to think and act autonomously – becomes key to testing fundamental shamefulness and driving change.

  • Work is defined on the basis of Concepts, histories and traditions of labour, leisure and creativity

    Through reading and discussion, I was led to think that work is not just economic activity, but also all the social activities that support the sustainability of productivity – such as domestic work, raising the next generation, and so on. These activities, often seen as “natural” or “secondary,” are in fact central to social reproduction, underpinning the broader economic and social fabric. This perspective challenged my traditional understanding of labor and prompted me to think about the role of creativity in the process-not just generating new ideas and products, but creating value in the process of maintaining and improving quality of life. By exploring how labor is objectified through the dialectical relationship between technology and time. This perspective led me to think about how technology has changed the way we think about labor in modern society, and how time has become a key measure of productivity and efficiency. By understanding the metaphysics of work, I started to consider the spot of relaxation and inventiveness in private character and social qualities, and how these ideas have developed after some time and with progresses in innovation.

    Work, recreation and inventiveness are the structure blocks of the social texture, and together they impact each other to profoundly influence our lives and society. By digging into the set of experiences and customs of these ideas, I started to ponder how to track down a more adjusted connection among work and relaxation in my own life and work, and how to communicate my thoughts through inventive exercises to battle estrangement in entrepreneur society.

    Further, What Is Work?

    This isn’t simply a conversation of a monetary action, yet a perplexing issue including social designs, individual characters, social customs, and mechanical advancement. The idea and history of Work uncovers how people use work to characterize themselves, assemble associations with others, and shape and figure out the world through work. According to a verifiable perspective, the structure and importance of Work has developed with the improvement of society, and the idea of work has gone through a major change from the immediate material creation of early society to the help and information work of present day culture.

  • A journey of speculative thinking and design

    In exploring the first week’s theme, Speculative Thinking and Design, I was ushered into a world of creativity and challenging conventional wisdom. As far as I might be concerned, what was most amazing was an investigation of how craftsmanship, plan, and innovation meet to drive social and social change, empowering us to look past our ongoing assembling and plan constraints to investigate conceivable future structures. It advised me that the human occupation isn’t simply to make lovely articles, however more critically to set out to envision and execute conceivable social and social changes from here on out. Simultaneously, by imagining different future situations, sci-fi and dream can likewise act as a sort of mirror, mirroring our ongoing difficulties and nerves, and invigorating pondering potential arrangements. This article caused me to understand that sci-fi isn’t simply a method for idealism, however a method for empowering us to return to reality with an imaginative viewpoint.

    Speculative reasoning and configuration are devices for investigating the obscure, yet additionally the manner in which we collaborate with the world, provoking us to scrutinize the state of affairs and investigate potential fates. I came to understand that the job of people isn’t just to be makers, yet additionally to be masterminds and visionaries, with an obligation to investigate and propose potential outcomes in any event, when they appear to be far off. I likewise started to ponder how to apply these hypotheses to my plan practice and how to challenge conventional plan and creation processes. How might I advance reflection and conversation on friendly issues through my work? These inquiries caused me to understand that plan isn’t just a utilization of innovation, yet additionally a statement of thoughts and culture.

    In my work situation, the connection between the individual and the framework can draw on the above hypothesis of speculative reasoning and plan, and is viewed as a powerful course of communication and shared forming. People, as members in the framework, are not just impacted by the current construction and rules of the framework, yet in addition can impact and change the framework through their own decisions and choices. Individual creativity and design thinking can subtly influence team culture and organizational structure, promoting a more open and innovative work environment. The relationship between the individual and the system is a two-way and dynamic interactive relationship. Through innovative and speculative thinking, individuals in the work scene are not only part of the system, but also a catalyst for system change. We must not only adapt the system, but proactively design and reshape it to make it more efficient, equitable and inclusive.