Block Seminar Design Theory 5th semester

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Deliverables

• Assignment 0 (for Monday 65.9)
  • Read "Inventing the Expert. Technological Literacy as Social Currency" (pp.9-32) by Carolyn Marvin (attached in email and linked in Literature section below)
    
    
• Assignment 1 (for Tuesday 76.9)
  • Watch La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962, 28')
  • Answer with 1-2 paragraphs the question: What do you fear?
  • Find 1 or 2 design projects that has for you all the qualities you ambition for yourself (you will present them the next morning with 1 - 2 sentences each) - send by email
    
  • Read Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (read intro + pick one of the case studies to browse further) - write one paragraph about what your impressions, remarks (what concept is new to you, inspiring aspects, positions you disagree with, etc..) - send notes by email by on 5.9 by 19.00
    
• Assignment 2 (for Wednesday 7.9) send by email on 6.9 by 19.00
  • Find 1 or 2 design projects that has for you all the qualities you ambition for yourself (you will present them the next morning with 1 - 2 sentences each) 
  • Read xxx
• Assignment 3 (for Thursday 8.9): 
  • Read
  2 papers
  • xx (see Literature references below) + one optional.
    Provide response notes to the papers: short remarks should be written that capture learning points and possible critiques of the papers - send by email 7.09 by 17.00
  • Prepare final work - what idea etc..

• Assignment 4 - Final Work: The format and platform of the final outcome is decided together with the students- it will be an online representation of your reboot ideas (possibly 1-page website, written essay, video, or use of hosting platform such as TikTok, filmed performance, games, new object). Preferably individual work (the works can be in connection with one another). Your work needs to be in adequacy with the intention and the process. The collection of works from each student will constitute together an online exhibition.
  • +150 words to give context to the piece.
  • 3-5 mn presentation : why you made it, how it relates to the topic
  • reboot ideas: design education, the notion of the future, expanding the design field, exploring the perception of design in the world, specific technologies/designs, biases and stereotypes, fostering inclusiveness and equity, opportunities of undesign/untechnologize. Ask yourself the question of 'what you would like to reboot' (in your studies, life, design field, in societal conventions, etc..), respond to the proposals of the papers you read (for instance, about undesigning, or considering unconventional ways to address a topic), go back to the initial questions at the beginning of the week (what would you do differently in your studies?), etc.... The final assignment is a statement or positioning or response to those provocative questions
  • the ideas could represent your position on a topic above or on a case study discussed in class, your new proposal, or your interpretation of an issue
  • potential audience: other people in the design fields
  • upload online your statement and send me as well a hard copy via email / wetransfer

• Final presentation in class - upload on Instagram by 12.00 on the 9.9 by 12.00 & present in class concisely.

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