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Block Seminar Design Theory 3rd semester

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Mon 9.09 -
Past <> Trade 
Tu 10.09 -
Future <> Geologies 

We 11.09 - 
Present <> Design/Undesign

Th 12.09 -
Present <> 

Fr 13.09 -
Where to?

9.00

  • Intro: syllabus & course overview
  • Writing / reflective session

  • Lecture: Entanglements


  • Discuss in duo in breakout room & class

9.00

  • Review of materials
  • Case studies / Lecture > mining
  • Discuss in duo in breakout room & class

9.00

  • Readings discussion

  • Overview of proposals and case studies that open up design interventions and possibilities (undesign, permaculture, indigenous reclaims..)
  • Discuss in duo in presence & class


9.00

  • Conversation with 
    Joséphine von Mitschke-Collande,
    Themenverantwortliche Suffizienz bei Stiftung Mercator Schweiz


Rest of the day: Independent study - 
Prepare assignment 4

 

Morning:
Independent study - Prepare final assignment 4

Upload assignment 4

Afternoon:

Independent study - Prepare assignment 1
*Send assignment 1 by 19.00

readings: stardust, lessons of grass

Afternoon:


Independent study - Prepare assignment 2
*Send assignment 2 by 19.00

readings: 

cotton / slavery trade

african workers?

14.00

  • Geological tour of Zurich by focusTerra ETH
    • Document with field journal / photos / remarks

Prepare assignment 3
*Send assignment 3 by 19.00


readings:

  • design for just transitions (or labor centered design)
  • sufficiency - social contract?


13.30

  • Presentation of final assignments
  • Closing Discussion





Literature/References
  • True Cost / Fast Fashion
  • Story of Things
  • A Varda - Glaneurs
  • China Town, 2009
  • A Denes, Wheatfields
  • A Cherri, Of Men and Gods and Mud
  • No Cap / Agriculture
  • Follow the things
  • ...
     
    • Readings:
      West Africa
    • Kate Meagher, Laura Manna and Maxim Bolt, "Making the Right Connections: Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African workers". Journal of Development Studies. 2016.
    • Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, “Labour Recruitment in the Nineteenth Century: The Place of Practicality” (Ch. 2). In Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909, University of Rochester Press, 2018.

      Silk Road
    • Hansen, Valerie. (2012). The Silk Road: A New History. New York, Oxford University Press. Read Intro in depth and browse the rest of the book for general overview.
    • You, Mi. (2018). Silk Roads, Tributary Networks and Old and New Imperialism. Extra States: Nations in Liquidation. C. Edwards and i. Fokianaki. Antwerp, Kunsthal Extra City.

      Cotton
    • Sven Beckert, "Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War". The American Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 5 (December 2004), Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association.
    • Giorgi Riello, "The Globalization of cotton textiles. Indian Cottons, Europe, and the Atlantic World, 1600–1850". In Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello, eds,The Spinning World: A GlobalHistory of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850(Oxford, 2009).

      Other:

      ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures" edited by Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, and Stephanie PaladinCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
      Permaculture
      Powers diagram
      Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy" by Bob Johnson
      The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

      James Clifford, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2013.

      Melissa K. Nelson (ed.), Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, Bear & Company, 2008.

      Melissa K. Nelson & Dan Shiling (eds.), Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

      Macarena Gomex-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke Uniersity Press, 2017.

      Jan Zalasiewicz, The Planet in a Pebble. Oxford University Press, 2010.

      Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘MishkosKenomagwen, the Lessons of Grass: Restoring Reciprocity with the Good Green Earth.” The Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
      ...


  • To prepare before class starts (optional):
  • To read Monday 9.09:

  • To read Tuesday 10.09
  • To read Wednesday 11.09 (two in depth + one browsed)  


    • on 11.09 Optional readings: 

Reminder: For each paper, you need to send response notes: underline 2-3 points that sparked questions and possibly points that you felt should have been addressed in the paper or that you want to challenge.
Use the Reading guideline to comment on the texts.