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INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 5th semester

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"Sweet Dreams are Made of This" proposes to dive into the very essence of interaction design agency, ahead of the thesis semester. How does a design project emerges from a particular interest? Should it have an impact? And at what scale? Through a variety of references, we'll address notions of dreams, contribution, position. creativity and ownership, especially as they relate to contemporary societal questions. We usually consider that a novel contribution to knowledge has to be read about, dreamed about in a visionary sense, used and related to, through hands on testing, iterations and prototyping at various stages, explored orally and visually, and discussed by peers and tutors. The course is structured around materials discussions showcasing social engagement, activism and aesthetic movements, various assignments such as fictional dream-like scenarios and practical workshop formats.

This course is also a guided exercise in your autonomy to look for relevant references and to integrate them as part of your research endeavour. You should start early with topics of interest for your diploma work, even it is expected that they might evolve or even change completely. In that sense, even if your topic changes, the questions & methods that will be addressed in this class will be valid throughout your diploma work. Different than previous theory classes, with mostly discussions based on readings, this class is a continuous assignment-based exploration of your research engagement. It is required that you follow through and ride the wave.

COURSE OUTLINE 

12 sessions structured around the notions of engagement, positioning, research and ownership.
 

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Session 01 – 25.09.23 – What is the Action? - Part One - Atelier Baustell, Hardgutstrasse 7, 8048 Zürich (Outdoors)

Meeting at the mini-golf installations at Atelier Baustell & quick tour.

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Session 09 – 13.11.22 – Joyful and Creative Research  

Guest Intervention

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: Sadhna Jain, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.

“Encounters at the end of the Earth: manoeuvres with Black Studies”
 
Sadhna Jain's Bio:
I am the Course Leader of the MA Graphic Design Communications Course, Camberwell College at University of the Arts, London. My educational and professional background is in Screen Arts, Interaction Design and Communication Design. Current research attends to the physio-geographies from the many human and living systems perspectives and the need to re-imagine complex ecologies and practices within this.
Culturally Complicated – Critically Diverse

Sadhna's talk “Encounters at the end of the Earth: manoeuvres with Black Studies” will acknowledge the work of Black Studies scholars and creatives. Their work can help us understand how the narratives of Earth-bound capitalist systems can be arrested or suspended. Alternative possibilities are illuminated through new Black Ecologies, in which time, space, technologies, spirits, and lifeforms offer other trajectories of living and undisciplined ways of thinking as designers. 
 

Assignment for the following week:

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Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Boucher, A. 2012. Attention To Detail: Annotations of a design process. pp. 11-20. 

Gaver, W. 2011. "Making spaces: How design workbooks work" in Proceedings of CHI 2011, Vancouver.

Assignment for the following week:

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Exercise-in-class: list where your thesis work is not changing anything.
Exercise-in-class: looking at former IAD students' BA thesis

Readings (Browse through):

Eco, U. 2015. How to Write a Thesis. MIT Press. 1st ed. 1977. 

Koskinen, I., Zimmerman, J., Binder, T., Redström, J., & Wensveen, S. 2011. Design research through practice: From lab, field, and showroom. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

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