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INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 4th semester
Spring 2020
INSTRUCTORS
Stefano Vannotti
Verena Ziegler, verena.ziegler@zhdk.ch
Dr Joëlle Bitton, joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch
Stefano Vannotti, stefano.vannotti@zhdk.ch
Office hours by appointment
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Readings are made available in the shared IAD server.
CALENDAR & SESSIONS
Session 01 – 02.03. Spaces and
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Politics
Introduction of course outline
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Try to map out (or highlight in the text) the Essays trajectory opinions and characteristics.
Session 02 - 09.03. Spaces
Presentations of practical exercises
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Readings to be read in advance, preparation of presentations of observations and preparation of notes.
Session 3 - 16.03. Artifacts and Politics
- 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).
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 04 – 23.03 - The Design of Trade
Commodities & entanglement
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Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes to be sent by Monday morning before class. You're expected to inquire about the authors and to research the background of the topics for discussion in class.
Session 05 – 06.04 - Decolonizing Technologies
- SSL Nagbot. Feminist Hacking/Making: Exploring New Gender Horizons of Possibilities. The Journal of Peer Production. January 2016.
- Irmgard Emmelhainz. Decolonization as the Horizon of Political Action. e-flux journal #77. November 2016.
- Victor Papanek. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, New York, Pantheon Books. 1971. (Chapter 4)
Rehema Baguma. Teaching HCI and Research in local HCI problems in Uganda: Current Status and Recommendations. HCIxB. 2017.
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes to be sent by Monday morning before class. You're expected to inquire about the authors and to research the background of the topics for discussion in class.
Session 06 – 06.05 Complex Systems & Power Structures
- Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek. 2013. "#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics". in Robin Mackay. Armen Avessian. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. Urbanomic 2014 / MIT press 2019 (pp347-362).
- Louise Amoore. Algorithmic War: Everyday Geographies of the War on Terror. In Antipode Vol. 41 No. 1. 2009.
- Brian Larkin. The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. In Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2013. 42:327–43.
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