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The class usually takes place on Mondays, from 8.30-10.30, in room 4K11 - yet with many exceptions(!). So please on Zoom. Please pay attention to the schedule as there might be some exceptions. In each session two teams of two students will give a presentation: one based on readings and the other one based on art and design projects. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and/or an in-class assignment. Each student has to write a final essay based on a topic chosen by the student in relation to a class assignment and his/her practical work in Soft Architecture or Interactive Visualisationin the seminar Soft Architecture.

EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING

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Readings-based presentation 25% 
Projects-based presentation 25%
Final essay 30%
Class participation 20% 

Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade. 
 

20%

ASSIGNMENTS 

Oral presentations
Students must independently prepare lectures on selected texts from the week. These can be presented in different formats. 
Possible presentation formats are:
Live sketching
Demo with prototyping
Classic Slides presentation
etc.

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(NOTE: ideal wäre ein Termin für Einleitung, 8 Termin mit jeweils 2 Texten + 2 Case Studie Präsentationen, 1 Termin zur Vorbereitung der Essays mit Präsentation der Themen

Class 1 - Monday, 1621.9.19 - 13:30-15:30 -   - Introduction

Class 2 - Wednesday, 25.10.19 - 9:00-11:00 - Systems and Environments   - Bodies and Spaces

Class 3 - Thursday, 312.10.19 -  9:00 - 11:00 - Material and Environmental Dynamics

Class 4 - Friday, 419.10.19   - 9:00-11:00 - Bodies and Spaces( Systems and Environments

Class 5 - Saturday, 526.10.19 -  9:00 - - 11:00Services and Infrastructure - DIESES MIT EINEM ANDEREN KOMBINIEREN??)
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Class 6 - Monday, 72.1011.19 -  9:00-11:00 - Wavescapes )- Anthropocene

Class 7 - Monday, 14 9.1011.19 - 8:30-10:30 - 4K11- Anthropocene(   - Wavescapes

Class 8 - Monday, 2116.1011.19 - 8:30-10:30 - 4K11 -   - Cybernetics: Conversation and Fabrics )

Class 9 - Monday, 4 23.11.19 - 8:30-10:30   - Introduction to data and data literacy

Class 10 - Friday, 8 30.11.19 - 8:30-10:30   - Artificial Intelligence

Class 11 - Friday, 15 7.11.19 - 8:30-10:30 12.  - Dopamine Economy + Surveillance Capitalism

Class 12 - 14.12. - Essay preparation

Personal feedback on your final essays will be given on January 15, 2020.

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DESCRIPTION of the TOPICS and texts in the individual CLASSES

Class 1 - 21.9.  - Introduction

Introduction to the course, explanation and organisation of tasks/dates

Guidelines for writing the final essay

Class 2 - Wednesday, 25.10. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - Bodies and Spaces

Readings:
a) Hartmann, Klemmer, Takayama. 2006. "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design". In DIS 2006.

b) Situated interaction / situated cognition (the 10 commandments of ecological psychology

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Project Topics:
- Multisensory spatial experiences
- Haptics and Space
- Sensing through scales (micro-meso-macro)

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Class 3 - Thursday, 12.10.- Systems and Environments

Readings:
a) Burnham, Jack. 1969. "Systems and Art". In Arts in Society. 6:2. University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969. 194-204.
b) Sprenger, Florian. 2019. "Epistemologien des Umgebens: Zur Geschichte, Ökologie und Biopolitik künstlicher environments". 9-30. (Gut genug??)

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Project Topics:
- Human-Environment Interactions
- Temporary spaces
- Outdoor Interventions

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Class 3 4 - ThursdayFriday, 319.10. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - - Material and Environmental Dynamics

Readings:
a) Pickering, Andrew. 2013. "Being in an environment: a performative perspective". Natures Sciences Sociétés 21. 77-83.
b) Ingold, Tim. 2008. "Bringing Things to Life. Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials".

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Project Topics:
- Sourcing materials
- Material-Environment Interactions
- Artificial weather systems

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Class 4 5 - FridaySaturday, 426.10. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - Bodies and Spaces- Services and Infrastructure

Readings:
a) HartmannStarosielski, Klemmer, TakayamaNicole. 20062012. "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design". In DIS 2006.

b) Böhme, Gernot. 2000. "Leibliche Anwesenheit im Raum". In Ästhetik und Kommunikation 108. 67-76.Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures." Journal of Visual Culture. 11:1. April 2012. 38–57.
b) Klinenberg, Eric. 2018. AUSSCHNITT. Palaces for the people. ??-??

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Project Topics:
- Multisensory spatial experiencesSpeculative service design
- Haptics and Space
- Sensing through scales (micro-meso-macro)Biological services

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Class 5 6 - SaturdayMonday, 52.1011. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - Services and Infrastructure- Anthropocene

Readings:
a) Starosielski, Nicole. 2012. "Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures." Journal of Visual Culture. 11:1. April 2012. 38–57.
b) Orsini, Krisitan & Ostojić, Vukašin. 2018/2019. "Croatias Tourism Industry I+II (Beyond the Sun and Sea, Curse or Blessing?)". European Economic Brief 036 + 047 (RAUS!!!)) Latour, Bruno. 2018. "Das terrestrische Manifest". 21-25, 35-68.
b)    I) Gombiner, Joel. 2011. "Carbon Footprinting the Internet“. In Consilience: "The Journal of Sustainable Development“. Vol. 5. 119-124
       II) "‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025“. view article online
       III) Cook, Gary. 2017. "Clicking clean: Who is winning the race to build a green internet?". view article online

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Project Topics:
- Speculative service Energy low design
- Biological servicesAnthropocene (art & design)

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Class 6 7 - Monday, 79.1011. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - - Wavescapes

Readings:
a) Husokawa, Shuhei. 1984. "The Walkman Effect". In Popular Music. 4. Performers and Audiences. 165-180.

b)      I) Hessler, Stefanie. 2018. "Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic World view through Art and Science“. In Hessler (ed.). "Tidalectics". 31-34,43.  (KEINE GUTEN TEXTE - oder doch?)
      
      II) Tamatoa Bambridge and Stephanie Leyronas. 2018. "The Polynesian Rahui and Global Issues of Climate". In Hessler (ed.). "Tidalectics". 133-141.

or some introduction to Sonic Interaction Design from Karmen's book.

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Project Topics:
- Sound Art/Design
- The Commons

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Class 7 - Monday, 14.10.19 - 8 :30-10:30 - 4K11- Anthropocene

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Project Topics:
- Energy low design
- Anthropocene (art & design)

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Guidelines for writing the final essay will be presented.

Class 8 - -

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Monday, 21.10. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - 4K11 - Cybernetics: Conversation and Fabrics (KÖNNTE AUCH VERSCHWINDEN... oder doch behalten?)

Readings:
a) Pask, Gordon: A comment, a case history and a plan, in REICHARDT, Jasia (Hrsg.): Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas, New York Graphics Society 1971, 76–99
b) Beer, Stafford. 1962. "Progress Note on Research into a Cybernetic Analogue of Fabric", in Harnden, R. et al. (Eds.). 1994. "How many grapes went into the wine. Stafford Beer on the art and science of holistic management". 25–32.

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Project Topics:
- Responsive Environments
- Non-human conversation

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Don't forget on this date, 21.10.19 : hand in (half a written page) and present (1min) your proposal for the final essay!

Class 9 - Monday, 4.11. 19 - 8:30 - 10:30 - Introduction to data and data literacy

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Class 10 - Friday, 8.11. 19 - 8:30-10:30 - Artificial Intelligence, Room 5.D01

Readings:  

a) The Power of Self-Learning Systems - IAS - Demis Hassabis:

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Class 11 - Friday, 15.11. 19 - 8:30 - 10:30 - Dopamine Economy + Surveillance Capitalism, Room 5.D01

Readings: 

a) The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal - Netflix - oder Guardian artikel..?
b) Has dopamine got us hooked on tech? | Technology | The Guardian / Simon Parkin

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