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The class usually takes place on Mondays, from 15.0015-16.3045, on Zoom (with exceptions during the parallel seminar Soft Architecture). In each session four students will give a presentation: two based on readings and the other two based on art and design projects. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and/or an in-class assignment. Each student has to write a final essay based on a topic chosen by the student in relation to a class assignment and his/her practical work in the seminar Soft Architecture or Data Visualization.
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The reading-based presentation must include a 2-pages written discussion, made available to the class and instructor via Paul three days prior to the day of the class to ensure a general discussion!
The paper should include title, author, date, context, summary, bibliography.
Additional sources can be added to inform the discussion if necessary.
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The topic of the essay is chosen by the student in relation to a class assignment and proposed by Class 7 in half a written page explaining the topic and the questions at stake, and in the form of presentation (2-3min) to the class. The final essay has to be submitted by Monday, December 1911.
The paper can be written in English or German.
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Readings are made available on Paul per session.
Additional readings can be proposed to underline a particular aspect and should be considered.
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CALENDAR overview
Class 1 - 1819.9. , 09:00 - Introduction
Class 2 - 19.09. - Material and Environmental Dynamics
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Class 11 - 27.11. - Essay support
Special Date: 1011.12. - Deadline Essay
Personal feedback on your final essays will be given by January 16, 2024.
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DESCRIPTION of the TOPICS and texts of the individual CLASSES
Class 1 - 18.9. , 09:00-10:30 - Introduction
Introduction to the course, explanation and organisation of tasks/dates
Class 2 - 19.09., 16:30-18:00- Material and Environmental Dynamics
Readings:
a) Pickering, Andrew (2013). "Being in an environment: a performative perspective". Natures Sciences Sociétés 21. : 77-83.
b) Ingold, Tim. (2008). "Bringing Things to Life. Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials".
presented by Luis by Elia (Pickering), Lars Irina (Ingold)
Project Topics:
- Sourcing materials
- Material-Environment Interactions
presented by Mo Tara (SM) and Matthias and Irina (MEI)
Class 3 - 25.09. - Services and Infrastructure
Readings:
a) Starosielski, Nicole (2012). "Warning: Do Not Dig’Dig: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures." Journal of Visual Culture. 11:1. April 2012. (1): 38–57.
b) Klinenberg, Eric (2018). "Palaces for the people". Crown: New York, USA. 184-197.
presented by Lea Jin (Starosielski) and Matthias Basil (Klinenberg)
Project Topics:
- Speculative service design
- Biological services
presented by Lars by Elia (SSD), Sonja Dario (BS)
Class 4 - 02.10. - Anthropocene
Readings:
a) Latour Chakrabarty, Bruno Dipesh (2018). "Das terrestrische Manifest". 21-25 & 35-68. Or alternative from new catalogue "Critical Zones!!
b) Planetary Crises and the Difficulty of Being Modern". Millennium: Journal of International Studies: 1–24.
b) Internet and Energy (covered by 2 students: create discussion!):
I) Gombiner, Joel (2011). "Carbon Footprinting the Internet“Internet.“ In Consilience: "The Journal of Sustainable Development“ . Vol. 5. : 119-124.
II) Guardian Environment Network (2017). "‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025“. The Guardian, UK.
III) Cook, Gary (2017). "Clicking clean: Who is winning the race to build a green internet?". Greenpeace: Washington (D.C.), USA.
Note: I, II and III are one package!presented by Mo (Latour) and Matilda (InternetAndreu, Javier F. et al. (2022). "Big data on a dead planet. The digital transition's neglected environmental impacts."
presented by Aisha (Chakrabarty) and Luca (Gombiner) & Stepan (Andreu)
Project Topics:
- Energy low design
- Anthropocene in art & design
presented by Carina David (ELD) and Matilda Luca (AAD) & Dario (catch-up from class 3)
Class 5 - 09.10. - Systems and Bodies
Readings:
a) Burnham, Jack (1969). "Systems and Art". In Arts in Society. 6:2. University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969. 194-204.
b) Hartmann, Klemmer, Takayama (2006). "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design". In DIS 2006.
presented by Sonja Raman (Burnham) and Tanja David (Klemmer)
Project Topics:
- Multisensory experiences, Haptics and Space
- Sensing through scales (micro-meso-macro)
presented by Luis Andreas (MEHS) and Loïc Raman (STS)
Class 6 - 16.10. - Wavescapes
Readings:
a) Hosokawa, Shuhei (1984). "The Walkman Effect". In Popular Music. 4. Performers and Audiences. 165-180.
b) Franinovic, Karmen and Salter, Christopher (2013). "The experience of Sonic Interaction". In Franinovic and Serafin: Sonic Interaction Design. 39-75.
presented by Elena Laberi (Hosokawa) and Carina Tara (Franinovic et al.)
Project Topics:
- Sound Art/Design
- Device Art
- Sound and Ecologies
presented by Elena Basil (SA/D), Laberi (DA) and PJ Jin (DAS&Eco)
Class 7 - 23.10. - Essay preparation
Hand in (half a written page) and present (2-3min) your proposal for the final essay (interests, central question, potential, challenges)!
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Readings:
a) Economist (2017). "The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data". The Economist: New York, NY, USA.
b) Barrowman, Nick (2018). "Why data is never raw". The New Atlantis, Summer/Fall edition: 129-135.
presented by Beni Tanya (Economist) Loïc Cyril (Barrowman)
Project Topics:
- information art (historical & latest)
- creative tracking
- tbc (boundaries of data worlds)
presented by Lyv Cyril (Information Art) Beni, Stepan(CT), Aisha (tbc)
Class 9 - 13.11. - Artificial Intelligence
Readings:
a) Russell, Stuart and Nerving Peter. "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", 4th ed. Extract from Introduction and conclusion. (covered by 2 students: create discussion!)
b)Launchbury, John (2107) The 3 waves of AI (A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of the Institute of Humane Technology: "The AI dilemma". Youtube video of lecture in San Francisco on March 9th, 2023. (covered by 2 students: create discussion!)
presented by Aubrey Ege & Anja (Russel) PJ (LaunchburyJeanne & Andreas (Harris, Raskin)
Project Topics:
- designing with AI Audrey
- AI & environment
- AI & ethics Lukeethics
presented by Ege (designing with AI), Anja (AI & environment), Jeanne (AI & ethics)
Class 10 - 20.11. - Data, Democracy and Surveillance Capitalism
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a) Zuboff, Shoshana (2015) "Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization". Journal of Information Technology 30: 75–89.
b) Cadwalladr, Carole (2018-2020). I) Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach. II) ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower. III) Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’. The Guardian, UK.
Note: I, II and III are one package!
presented by Lyv (Zuboff) Luke (CadwalladrRyser, Daniel and Sprenger, Ramona (2023) "Do not feed the google", news report in 10 parts on republik.ch (covered by 2 students: create discussion!)
presented by Elias (Zuboff), Dario, Luca (Ryser/Sprenger)
Project Topics:
- social media interventions/hacks/hoaxes Leahoaxes
(- citizen activism using digital platforms)
- participatory projects in Switzerland (mixing digital and real world) Tanja
presented by Luca (interventions), Elias (activism), Tanya (Switzerland)
Class 11 - 27.11. - Essay support
Ask all your questions, talk about challenges, discuss arguments, build up, formulations etc.