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CALENDAR overview
Class 1 - 21.9. - Introduction
Special Date: 23.9. - Microclimates lecture by Prof. Roesler
Class 2 - 5.10. - Systems and Bodies
Class 3 - 12.10. - Material and Environmental Dynamics
Class 4 - 19.10. - Services and Infrastructure
Class 5 - 26.10. - Anthropocene
Class 6 - 2.11. - Wavescapes
Class 7 - 9.11. - Essay preparation
Class 8 - 16.11. - Cybernetics: Conversation and Fabrics Introduction to data and data literacy
Class 9 - 23.11. - Introduction to data and data literacy Artificial Intelligence
Class 10 - 30.11. - Essay support Data, Democracy and Surveillance Capitalism
Class 11 - 7.12. - Artificial Intelligence Class 12 - Essay support
Special Date: 14.12. - Data, Democracy and Surveillance CapitalismDeadline Essay
Personal feedback on your final essays will be given on by January 15, 2020.
DESCRIPTION of the TOPICS and texts in the individual CLASSES
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Hand in (half a written page) and present (2-3min) your proposal for the final essay (interests, central question, potential, challenges)!
Class 9 - 23.11. - Class 8 - 16.11. - Cybernetics: Conversation and Fabrics
Readings:
a) Pask, Gordon (1971). "A comment, a case history and a plan", in REICHARDT, Jasia (Hrsg.): Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas, New York Graphics Society, 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.
presented by tbc
Project Topics:
- Responsive Environments
- Non-human conversation
presented by tbc
Introduction to data and data literacy
Readings:
a) Economist, T. (2017). The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. The Economist: New York, NY, USA.
b) Barrowman, Nick (2018). Why data is never raw (The New Atlantis, Summer/Fall edition: 129-135)
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Project Topics:
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presented by tbc
Class 10 - 30.11. - Essay support
Ask all your questions, talk about challenges, discuss arguments, build up, formulations etc.
Class 11 - 7.12. 9 - 23.11. - Artificial Intelligence
Readings:
a) Hassabis, Demis (2019). The Power of Self-Learning Systems. Youtube Video, Institute for Advanced Study, 47:30min.
(extra task: explain the most important concepts/methods/algorithms in AI featured in this video!)
b) Lovelock, James (2019). Novacene: The coming age of hyperintelligence. MIT Press: Cambridge (MA), USA. 79-120
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Project Topics:
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presented by tbc
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Data, Democracy and Surveillance Capitalism
Workshop in building up argumentations and research questions.
Watch beforehand:Movie:
The Great Hack (2019). Directors: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Documentary, 1h54min.
Additional Readings:
a) Cadwalladr, Carole (2019). The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal. The Guardian, UK.
b) Naughton, John (2019). 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism. The Guardian, UK.
presented by tbc
Project Topics:
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presented by tbc
Class 11 - 7.12. - Essay support
Ask all your questions, talk about challenges, discuss arguments, build up, formulations etc.