Block Seminar Design Theory 2nd semester

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The module takes place over 1 week, from 7h to 11th of February 2022, from Monday to Friday, 9.00-17.00.
(7&8.02 on site in Toni and 9&11.02 on Zoom). 

Topic

You may have first read the description of this course on an intranet service or on an email. You have spent the last two years of the pandemic discussing, learning, engaging with the world online, likely on Zoom and may have even used a co-working platform such as a Miro board. You are using WhatsApp or Instagram or Facebook and many other communication apps on a daily basis. This is how you are in touch with your friends, lovers, sexual partners, family… Maybe you even consider yourself “addicted”.

How did we get here? Over the past twenty years, the tech industry has built an infrastructure of communicating at distance and of sharing the most intimate parts of ourselves (even the ones we’re not aware of).

Yet, distant communication interfaces are not new: mail - via horse, train, air and more recently, the telephone have played essential roles in the construction of our interactions. And just as the emergence of the phone and the networks in the 19th century enhanced our communication models, the Internet and its palette of services accommodate distance in our daily relations. Each of these systems have set a range of social behaviours that frame our expectations and boundaries. And with every service, we discover how they can allow us to be in a greater mode of intimacy with each other.

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• Final presentation on Friday 11.2 afternoon.

Expectations, Gradings and

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Presence

Grades are pass/fail.

The pass grade is given based on the completion of in-class exercises, assignments, class participation and final work. 
Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation. 
Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  
Arriving late on more than one occasion can also affect the final grade.

Regular attendance of all the input sessions is also required to pass (3 mornings session and 1 afternoon session). 
Zoom-etiquette during online sessions: please be present on screen (no commuting/travelling or doing another activity in parallel of the class), on time, and with camera turned-on as much as possible. 
Please note that hybrid session (online and on-site at the same time) are not possible.

Timetable

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