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Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from 13.00-15.00 ZT in 4.T31.K16 (last day in 6.F01).
OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
The seminar proposes a critical examination of political components of design as it articulates technology and society.
Design is often understood on the surface as an activity producing more or less useful or ornamental things - outside the scope of its entanglements with questions of policy, trade, labor, gender, resources, power structures. Yet, designers can hold an agenda in these matters and designed artefacts and systems can affect how people live, communicate and act. This seminar thus proposes to uncover the material dimension of politics. Through case studies, observations of situations, film excerpts, exercises, guest lectures and essays, we will look at those entanglements as well as address systems that may not seem 'designed' as such but that present components of being planned and organised for a particular purpose.
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- Spaces, Artefacts and Politics held by Verena Ziegler
Complex Systems & Power Structures held by Dr Joëlle Bitton
- xx by Stefano Vannotti
EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING
The seminar proposes a critical conversation, addressing political components of design and their influence on human life. Methods of discussion, observation and critical thinking are practiced throughout.
Grades will be based on the oral and written presentations and on class participation. Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation. Regular attendance is required. Two or more unexcused absences will affect the final grade. Arriving late on more than one occasion will also affect the grade.
Class participation 20%
In-class assignments 20%30%
Final Essay 60%50%
Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.
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Essay deadline: uploaded to the IAD server : (folder essay assignment)on XX date.
COURSE MATERIALS
Readings are made available in the shared IAD server.
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▪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.
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