If Only: design, technology and society
INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 4th semester
...
Readings to be read in advance, preparation of presentations of essay investigations and preparation of notes (from the readings).
Session 06 – 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 – (Full paper)
- LucyLucy. A. Suchman. Plans and Situated action: The problem of human-machine communication. ISL-6. Palo Alto Research Center. 1985 Molly – (Pages 0 to 23 of the Pdf)Molly Wright Steenson: "Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCeYKOqMO4- (Full video)
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 07 – 08.04 The Uses uses of Literacy
- Richard Hoggart. The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life. Penguin Books 1957 / Routledge 1998 – (Chapter 1)
- Victor Victor Papanek. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, New York, Pantheon Books. 1971. (Chapter 4)
- Dominique 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. (Introduction)
- Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy: the technologization of the word. 1982. Methuen, London. (2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002) (Pages 181 to 186 of the Pdf)
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
(Pages 4 to 13 of the Pdf)
- SSL Nagbot. Feminist Hacking/Making: Exploring New Gender Horizons of Possibilities. The Journal of Peer Production. January 2016
- Shttp://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-8-feminism-and-unhacking/feminist-hackingmaking-exploring-new-gender-horizons-of-possibility/(Pages 1 to 3 of the Pdf)S.Wuschitz 2014, “Feminist hackerspaces: a research on feminist space collectives in open culture” PhD dissertation, University of Vienna, Austria. (pages 46 to 61 of the Pdf)
- 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(Pages 1 to 5 of the Pdf)
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 (First chapter)
- Sadie Plant. Zeroes + ones: digital women and the new technoculture. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997 (Pages 105 to 120 of the Pdf)
- Robin Mackay. Armen Avessian. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. Urbanomic 2014 / MIT press 2019. (Pages 355 to 370 of the Pdf)
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
...
Session 11 – 13.05 - Commodities Trade
Guest Lecture: Prof Dr Harald Fischer-Tiné, Institut für Geschichte, ETH
Details & Readings tba
Session 12 – 20.05 - The Silk Road
...