INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 4th semester
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INSTRUCTORS
Dr Joëlle Bitton, joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch
Dr Jean-Baptiste Labrune, jeanbaptisteparis@gmail.com
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Office hours by appointment
Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from discussion each Monday from 13.00-15.00 ZT 4.T31.
OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
12 sessions structured around 3 sections:
- Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems held by Verena Ziegler
- Technology
Technoculture and Society held
by Jeanby Jean-Baptiste Labrune
- The The Design of Trade held by Dr Joëlle Bitton
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Session 01 – 18.02 Observation I (Verena Ziegler)I
Introduction of course outline and first section: Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems
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Session 02 – 25.02 Observations II Spaces and Politics (Verena Ziegler)Politics
- Michel Foucault, “Der Panoptismus” in Überwachen und Strafen: Die Geburt des Gefängnisses (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008).
- Efe Basturk, "A brief Analyse on Post Panoptic Surveillance: Deleuze&Guattarian Approach", 2017, International Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. VI, No. 2 / 2017)
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Session 03 - 04.03. Spaces (Verena Ziegler)
>>> Short presentations of observations (2 min.)
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Session 04 – 11.03 Artifacts and Politics (Verena Ziegler)
- Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” in The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
- Bruno Latour, “Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts,” in Shaping Technology / Building Society , ed. Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).
Questions to answer in preparation to the seminar:
Session 05 – 18.03 Ecosystems (Verena Ziegler)Ecosystems
>>> Short Presentations of Essay investigations (2 min.)
- Jane Bennett, "Vibrant Matter - A Political Ecology of Things", Published: January 2010: Pages: 200
Questions to answer in preparation to the seminar:
Session 06 – 01.04
Session 07 – 08.04
Session 08 – 15.04
Session 09 – 29.04 – 01.04 Cybernetics revisited
- C. R. Licklider. Man-Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960
- Lucy. A. Suchman. Plans and Situated action: The problem of human-machine communication. ISL-6. Palo Alto Research Center. 1985
- Molly Wright Steenson: "Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCeYKOqMO4
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 07 – 08.04 The Uses of Literacy
- Richard Hoggart. The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life. Penguin Books 1957 / Routledge 1998
- Victor Papanek. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, New York, Pantheon Books. 1971
- Dominique Pasquier. The Internet of Low-Income Families. A Survey in Rural France, Paris, Presses des Mines, (L’internet des familles modestes. Enquête dans la France rurale), 2018
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 08 – 15.04 Anthropology of Hacking
- Gabriella Coleman, A Golub. Hacker practice: Moral genres and the cultural articulation of liberalism". Anthropological Theory. 8 (3): 255–277. 2008
https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/003/679/255.pdf - SSL Nagbot. Feminist Hacking/Making: Exploring New Gender Horizons of Possibilities. The Journal of Peer Production. January 2016
http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-8-feminism-and-unhacking/feminist-hackingmaking-exploring-new-gender-horizons-of-possibility/ - S.Wuschitz 2014, “Feminist hackerspaces: a research on feminist space collectives in open culture” PhD dissertation, University of Vienna, Austria.
- Maxigas. (2012) Hacklabs and hackerspaces:Tracing two genealogies. Journal of Peer Production (2). 2012 http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 09 – 29.04 Accelerationism
- Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative ? Zero Books, 2009
- Sadie Plant. Zeroes + ones: digital women and the new technoculture. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997
- Robin Mackay. Armen Avessian. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. Urbanomic 2014 / MIT press 2019.
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 10 – 06.05 - The Silk Road
Guest Lecture: Mi You, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Readings tba
Session 11 – 13.05 05 - Trade Wars
Guest Lecture and readings tba
Session 12 – 20.05 - Tax wars
EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING
The seminar should become a critical dispute, dealing with the political component of design whose influence on human life, thinking and interaction stimulate.
Farther in the seminar the development of relevant literature and the critical examination of and critical examination of textual material as well as methods of scientific working are learned.
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