Mahmoud Keshavarz, second year EDG student, will present one of his recent articles at the 9th International Conference of the European Academy of Design from 4-7 May 2011 in Portugal. His paper entitled “Opening the Space of Experience: On Political Forms of Aesthetics in Design” explores re-framing ’the political’ in contemporary design contexts. The paper  applies Jacques Rancière’s theories to design practices and provides a critique of “Human-Centered Design” by discussing how this approach contributes to the hegemonic system of distributing the sensible in a policing society.