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Lecturers

Dr. Roman Kirschner
(RK), Luke Franzke (LF)

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Unfortunatly, we are already experiencing some of the dangerous eventualities of Generative A.I. The shift of political discourse to social media has also left our internal and interpersonal realm vulnerable to A.I.-based political manipulation through deep fakes and out-of-control algorithms driving radicalization (Ledwich et al., 2019). Yet, A.I. is now inseparable from all possible future trajectories: finding a non-zero-sum relationship with A.I. is a societal and ecological imperative. But the current spring of A.I. development has certainly sparked out our imagination: Projects like Polis leverage AI to find out what large numbers of people think about issues in their own words to better shape public policy. Augmented Democracy tries to use A.I. for radical new forms of direct democracy through a virtual twin.

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Schüll, Natasha Dow. "The folly of technological solutionism: An interview with Evgeny Morozov." (2013).

Ledwich, Mark, and Anna Zaitsev. "Algorithmic extremism: Examining YouTube's rabbit hole of radicalization." arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11211 (2019).

Possible references:

Morozov, Evgeny. "The rise of data and the death of politics." The Guardian 20.07 (2014): 2014.https://www.peopledemocracy.com/https://pol.is/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy

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Week 1

Monday, 29.04.

Tuesday, 30.04.

Wednesday, 01.05.

Thursday, 02.05.

Friday, 03.05.

morning

9:00 Kick-off & Introduction (ZT 4.K14 Seminarraum)

(ZT 3.K13 Seminarraum TL)

Start “Data, AI and Democracy in the City”

Workshop with Ramona

Workshop with Ramona

afternoon

(ZT 4.K14 Seminarraum)

Introduction Workshop with Ramona: “Data, AI and Democracy in the City”

(ZT 3.K13 Seminarraum TL)

Workshop with Ramona

Workshop with Ramona

Week 2

Monday, 6.05.

Tuesday, 7.05. 

Wednesday, 8.05.

Thursday, 09.05.

Friday, 10.05.

morning

Presentation of workshop results (In Zurich city, or 5.K06 Aktionsraum for bad weather)

Task 1 Introduction (4.T06 Seminarraum)

Task 1 execution

Task 2 Execution

afternoon

13:00 Input Jérôme and his team (5.K06 Aktionsraum)

Task 1 execution

Task 1 presentation & discussion

16:00 Task 2 Introduction (4.T06 Seminarraum)

Task 2 Execution

Week 3 

Monday, 13.05.

Tuesday, 14.05.

Wednesday, 15.05.

Thursday, 16.05. 

Friday, 17.05. 

morning

task 2 presentation & discussion (Possible Zoom presentation)

Concept Development

Concept + Prototype Development

Concept + Prototype Development

afternoon

Concept Development

13:00 Concept Mentoring (Via Zoom)

( Luke in PhD Meeting 13.30-14.45)5

Concept + Prototype Development

Concept + Prototype Development

Week 4

Monday, 20.05.

Tuesday, 21.05.

Wednesday, 22.05.

Thursday, 23.05.

Friday, 24.05.

morning

(09-12:30 Streichen BA Finals)

Concept + Prototype Development

Group work/Production

Group work/Production

Group work/Production

afternoon

14:00 Prototype Presentation & Steering Meeting (ZT 5.F01 Seminarraum)

13:00 Mentoring (Atelier)

Group work/Production

Group work/Production

Group work/Production

Week 5

Monday, 27.05.

Tuesday, 28.05.

Wednesday, 29.05.

Thursday, 30.05.

Friday, 01.06.

morning

Group work/ Production

Group work/ Production

Group work/ Production

Group work/ Production

Group work/ Production

afternoon

13:00 Technical Support LF (Atelier)

13:00 Mentoring (Atelier)

13:00 Technical Support LF (Atelier)

Group work/ Production

Group work/ Production

Week 6

Monday, 03.06.

Tuesday, 04.06.

Wednesday, 05.06.

Thursday, 06.06.

Friday, 07.06.

morning

(BA Thesis exhibition round)

Group work

Vernissage / Final Presentation

documentation/ reflection

documentation

afternoon

Group work

Group work

Vernissage / Final Presentation

documentation/ reflection

documentation

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