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INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR
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4th semester
Spring 2019
INSTRUCTORS
Dr Joëlle Bitton, joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch
Dr Jean-Baptiste Labrune, jeanbaptisteparis@gmail.com
Verena Ziegler, verena.ziegler@zhdk.ch
Office hours by appointment
Class sessions include a lecture/
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discussion each Monday from 13.00-15.00
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ZT 4.T31.
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OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
COURSE OUTLINE
12 sessions structured around 4 sections:
EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING
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%
Journal/Blog 20%
In-class assignments 20%
Final Assignment 40%
Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.
ASSIGNMENTS
Journal/Blog
A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):
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Exercise Observation
Essay
COURSE MATERIALS
Readings are made available in the shared IAD server:
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Session 01 –
24.09.2018 – What is the Action? (Joëlle Bitton)
This session is structured in two parts.
An initial discussion with students based on reflections from the last two years of studies and how they consider what a contribution is, as they head towards their thesis semester.
A second discussion based on watching excepts from two movies recalling the legacy of Act Up :
- How to Survive A Plague (David France, 2012)
- 120 BPM (Robin Campillo, 2013)
Assignment for the following week: print out a poster of a campaign that contributed to inspire, to bring awareness and to awake individuals and collectivity towards action. Put it on wall and plan to present the core of the contribution for two minutes. Look particularly into student activism throughout history, in various countries.
Session 02 – 01.10.2018 – In Formation (Joëlle Bitton)
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Session 03 – 08.10.2018 – Positioning I: Critique (Björn Franke)
Please read and prepare the following material for this session's discussion:
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2001), excerpt.
John Thackara, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), excerpt.
The Entire History of You, Black Mirror, Season 1, Episode 3, directed by Brian Welsh, 2011.
Session 04 – 15.10.2018 – Positioning II: Manifestos (Björn Franke)
Please read and prepare the following material for this session's discussion:
Michael Schindhelm, Solution 262: Lavapolis (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014), excerpt.
The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2009), excerpt.
The Invisible Committee, To Our Friends (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2015), excerpt.
The Invisible Committee, Now (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2017), excerpt.
Session 05 – 22.10.2018 – Introduction to paradigm, methodology and methods (Verena Ziegler)
Your position and what you intend to research will influence the selection of the research framework or paradigm. In this block, we will discuss the relationship between paradigm – methodoloy – method in research, because methodological decisions are influenced by the theoretical lenses employed by the researcher. In the introductory first phase, an overview of the heterogeneous field of design research and different “knowledge landscapes” within the field will be given. You should be enabled to have confidence and position your own research framework, but also to develop a greater relational understanding of different methodological approaches.
Niedderer, K., Roworth-Stokes, S. (2007). The Role and Use of Creative Practice in Research and its Contribution to Knowledge. IASDR International Conference 2007. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University. http://www.niedderer.org/knowledge.html
Mackenzie, N.,Knipe, S. (2006). Research Dilemmas: Paradigms, methods and methodology. Issues in Education Research, 16 (2), 193 – 205. http://www/iier.org.au/iier
Berkel, B. van, Caroline B. (1999). Move: Techniques, Amsterdam: UN Studio & Goose Press.
Session 06 – 29.10.2018 – Workshop I: From Research Topic to Research Angle to Research Question (Verena Ziegler)
First of all, we will define a topic together in the class. In this workshop we will form groups and use a concept map to make a list of key terms associated with your research topic, these can be key concepts, contextual and process-oriented terms. From there we will move on from research topic to developing a research angle. In an iterative process, we will use insights from personal experience , of related work, background research , observations , contemporary issues , engagement with the literature, dialogue, … to clarify the focus of your research. From developing a research angle, we will move on to develop several research questions in an iterative process of question formation and will discuss the importance and role of prototyping - so to speak learning by doing - as an iterative process at all stages of your research. Your question (s) will change and be refined as you project develops, which is all part of the process, but will help you to clarify your research direction.
Poggenpohl, S.H. (2000) Constructing knowledge of design, part 2: Questions – an approach to design research. Proceedings of the Conference Doctoral Education in Design: Foundations for the Future. Staffordshire University Press. Stoke-on-Trent. 2000. pp143 – 151.
Assignment after Session 6:
Analysis of two research methods
For this assignment you are asked to identify two research methods that you think will be relevant to you. Write a short essay describing what these methods are generally used for, their intended purpose and the various stages or processes they entail. You may want to identify the range of methods you initially considered and briefly discuss why you selected the two particular methods you are analyzing for the assignment. Where relevant compare these two methods in terms of their purposes and approach. Please identify why and how you think these methods could be useful in the future of following your BA thesis.
This assignment is to be presented as a short essay (max 2pages, approx. 800-1000 words statement). It may include diagrams and examples. Make sure you include a reference list of all texts you refer to at the end of the essay. Please use APA or other citation system.
The assignment will be assessed in terms of the quality of the information gathered and presented; the level of understanding of methodological application demonstrated in the essay, the relevance of approach to your project and the standard and clarity of communication. Please get someone to proof read your assignment if you are not confident with writing.
The focus of this assignment is on specific methods but you can discuss these methods in relation to their broader methodological frameworks if you think this is relevant. Please be mindful that there is a wide range of approaches available to you and that you might consider more formal research methods (like interviews or surveys) and/or design led methods like material probes, prototyping etc, - participatory methods, ideation methods, or more informal approaches. Please send your assignment by 19.11.2018 via email to verena.ziegler@zhdk.ch.
Session 07 – 05.11.2018 – Workshop II: From Reality to Fiction … (Verena Ziegler)
The second part of the workshop takes your research topic from reality to fiction. When we have gone through this process, you will have gained a big collection of ideas and examples. Analyse and redevelop them until satisfied with the result and compare it to your initial research questions. The findings should be set out in writing and will then inform next stages of the research process.
Adaption: Does your research direction and questions have references to other topics, what can be emulated, or does it point to other alternatives? What could be modified? What could be reconfigured?
Zimmermann J., Forlizzi J., (2014) Research Through Design in HCI, J.S. Olson and W.A. Kellogg (eds.), Ways of Knowing in HCI, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_8, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014, http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF5591/h15/Literature/resdeszimmer.pdf
20.11 - 23.11.2018 Reading Week
Assignment:
Please choose 3 references from the list Literature Interaction Design and read them during the reading week.
Additionally: Design Theory Readings (we encourage you to read those references during the whole theory seminar ;) ) :
Gaver, W., Dunne A, Pacenti E.: The Presence Project (RCA, Journal Interactions, Volume 6, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 1999)
Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Boucher, A.: Attention To Detail: Annotations of a design process. pp. 11-20. (2012) [Article]
Gaver, W.: Making spaces: How design workbooks work, Conference: Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (May 7-12, 2011)
Eco, U., Farina, C., Farina, G., & Erspamer, F. (2015). NOTES. In How to Write a Thesis (pp. 225-230). MIT Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt17kk9g5.14
Koskinen, I., Zimmerman, J., Binder, T., Redström, J., & Wensveen, S. (2011). Design research through practice: From lab, field, and showroom. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Session 8 – 12.11.2018 – Workshop III – … to Fiction (Verena Ziegler)
Fiction: Dream it bigger and create an ongoing dialog between what is and what might be. How could things be expanded? Which aspects could be extended? How could you add something? Should you recapitulate anything? Make it smaller: What could you leave out? Which aspects could be reduced? We will have a look at the "Center for Political Beauty" https://www.politicalbeauty.de, and how this center develops innovative forms of political activism to provoke, rise awareness and to preserve humanitarianism.
Koskinen, I., Zimmerman, J., Binder, T., Redstrom, J., & Wensveen, S. (2011). Design Research through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom. Boston: Morgan Kaufmann.
Session 9 – 19.11.2018 – Workshop IV – ... to Transformation (Verena Ziegler)
Transformation: How could you change cause and effect? Could you reverse anything? Could you combine some ideas - prototype and iterate them with different methods? Could you mix them up with other contents? Is it possible to combine or split up different components of the service or product you want to create?
Workshop I-IIII Group-Presentations of various approaches in the class
Jonas, W., Zerwas, S., von Anshelm, K., (2015) Transformation Design - Perspectives on a New Design Attitude, Birkhäuser, 978-3-0356-0636-2 November 2015.
Session 10 – 26.11.2018 – Reflections and Learnings from the Workshops (Verena Ziegler)
Presentation of assignments and in the class + reflections and learnings on the seminar.
Session 11 – 03.12.2018 – Ownership I: Involvement (Björn Franke)
Please read and prepare the following material for this session's discussion:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (New York: Random House, 2018), excerpt.
David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009), chap 5.
The Yes Men Fix The World, P2P Edition, directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno and Kurt Engfehr, 2009.
Session 12 – 10.12.2018 – Ownership II: Dedication (Björn Franke)
Please read and prepare the following material for this session's discussion:
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Demand, The Conversation Series, vol. 10 (Köln: Walter König, 2007), excerpt.
Paul Cronin, Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Faber & Faber, 2014), excerpt.
Additionally, look up some of the work of Thomas Demand and Werner Herzog.
Final Assignment: deadline 12.12.18
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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.
The 12 sessions of the seminar are structured around 3 sections:
- Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems held by Verena Ziegler
Technoculture and Society held by Dr Jean-Baptiste Labrune
- The Design of Trade held by Dr Joëlle Bitton
Session 01 – 18.02 Observation I
Introduction of course outline and first section: Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems
Clarification regarding expectations and assignments to be accomplish throughout the seminar
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From what perspective do the two texts speak about the streets perception and systems?
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Session 02 – 25.02 Observations II Spaces and 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
Questions to answer in preparation to the seminar:
Please try to compare the two texts, how do the authors look at surveillance strategies (from a governmental perspective, from a citizen perspective, from a political perspective,...)
Try to map out (or highlight in the text) the Essays trajectory opinions and characteristics.
>>> Informal, short presentations of observations (2 min.)
Session 03 - 04.03. Spaces
>>> Short presentations/performances of observations (2 min.)
- Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias”, Architecture /Mouvement/ Continuité, October, 1984; (“Des Espace Autres,” March 1967 Translated from the French by Jay Miskowiec)
Didier Faustino, https://didierfaustino.com
Readings to be read in advance, preparation of presentations of observations and preparation of notes (from the readings).
Session 04 – 11.03 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 05 – 18.03 Ecosystems
>>> Short Presentations of Essay investigations (2 min.)
- Jane Bennett, "Vibrant Matter - A Political Ecology of Things", Published: January 2010: Chapter 7 "Political Ecologies" (pages 94 - 109)
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)
- Lucy. A. Suchman. Plans and Situated action: The problem of human-machine communication. ISL-6.
- Palo Alto Research Center. 1985 – (Pages 0 to 23 of the Pdf)
- Molly Wright Steenson: "Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape 2018.
(Full video)Widget Connector url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCeYKOqMO4-
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Short Bio:
Jean-Baptiste Labrune
Jb Labrune is a designer and researcher specializing in the development and study of creative processes in the context of new programmable materials, critical design and avant garde places mixing artists, scientists and thinkers. His researches focus on the notion of “Exaptation”, the way in which users of technologies reconfigure and hack them, producing original and unexpected functions and uses. He completed his PhD at INRIA and postdoc at MIT, then became a researcher at Bell Labs and interaction design professor at ENSAD (Arts Décos School). He then joined SciencesPo University as a senior lecturer while launching his practice at Radical Design Studio. He organized many “hybrid” workshops in art & sciences venues in France (Arts Décos, Beaux-Arts, Palais de Tokyo, Mains d’Oeuvres) & internationally (Mediamatic, Interaction Design Institute Ivréa, IMAL, Hangar, Hyperwerk, Akademie Schloss Solitude, MIT Medialab).
Session 07 – 08.04 The Uses of Literacy
- Richard Hoggart. The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life. Penguin Books 1957 / Routledge 1998 – (Chapter 1)
- Victor Papanek. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, New York, Pantheon Books. 1971. (Chapter 4)
- 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 http://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 10 – 06.05 - On the History and Empowerment of West African Workers
Guest Lecture: Dr Cassandra Thiesen-Mark, Universität Basel
Readings:
- Kate Meagher, Laura Manna and Maxim Bolt, "Making the Right Connections: Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African workers". Journal of Development Studies. 2016.
- Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, “Labour Recruitment in the Nineteenth Century: The Place of Practicality” (Ch. 2). In Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909, University of Rochester Press, 2018.
Short Bio:
Dr. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen is currently a lecturer and researcher at the history department of the University of Basel. She completed her doctoral research in African History at Oxford University in 2014. Her research focus lies in the social and economic history of West Africa. Her current research project traces the history of agricultural development policies and practices in Liberia between 1944 and 1957. Her first book Mediators, Contract Men and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909, which is part of the African Studies Series of the University of Rochester Press, traced the economic factors behind indirect recruitment for Ghana’s early colonial gold mines. It paid special attention to a variety of West African labor agents orchestrating this form of migration; both male and female, career-and profit-oriented. General research interests include Africa during the age of developmentalism, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rural history, the history of African intermediaries, the history of work.
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 11 – 13.05 - India’s shifting place in the world wide web of cotton, c. 1600-1950
Guest Lecture: Prof Dr Harald Fischer-Tiné, Institut für Geschichte, ETH
Taking India as its main geographical focus, this lecture will explore the construction and transformation of the world wide web of cotton between the 16th and the 20th centuries. On a more abstract level it makes a plea for a multiperspectival approach to the history of material objects through illustrating how deeply the history of commodities and the history of consumption are tangled up with social and political history.
Readings:
- Sven Beckert, "Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War". The American Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 5 (December 2004), Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association.
Giorgi Riello, "The Globalization of cotton textiles. Indian Cottons, Europe, and the Atlantic World, 1600–1850". In Prasannan Parthasarathi and Giorgio Riello, eds, The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 (Oxford, 2009).
Short Bio:
Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich). He has studied South Asian history, political science and Hindi at the University of Heidelberg (from where he earned his PhD in 2000) and the Central Hindi Institute in Agra (India). He has published extensively on South Asian colonial history and the history of the British Empire. His research interests include global and transnational history, the history of knowledge and the social and cultural history of colonial South Asia. His most recent monographs are: Shyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (London and Delhi, 2014); Pidgin-Knowledge: Wissen und Kolonialismus (Berlin - Zurich, 2013, in German. He has also (co)-edited ten anthologies, the most recent of which are: Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings (Houndmills, 2017); Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality” (Cambridge, 2016), with Jessica Pliley and Robert Kramm; Colonial Switzerland: Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins (New York and Houndmills, 2015), with Patricia Purtschert; and A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia: Intoxicating Affairs (London, 2013), with Jana Tschurenev.
His articles and book reviews have appeared in many journals including the American Historical Review, Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Asian Studies and Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Currently, Harald Fischer-Tiné is concluding the manuscript of a research monograph on the history of the American YMCA in South Asia (1890–1960).
Readings to be read in advance and preparation of notes.
Session 12 – 20.05 - Silk Road: Old and New Networks
Guest Lecture: Mi You, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
The starting point is the Silk Roads, a network of trade routes and cultural transfer passages connecting Eurasia and the rest of the world. Eurasia is a landmass that embraces a space between Europe and Asia. Albeit simplistic, taking this definition of Eurasia promises an exploratory, open-ended and collaborative journey into a complex way of thinking through old and new networks, which questions existing borders and distinctions in all dimensions such as the geographical, cultural, geopolitical, and social ones – and in turn calls for new connections and pathways across cosmic, geologic, media-theoretical and nomadic dimensions.
Readings:
- Hansen, Valerie. (2012). The Silk Road: A New History. New York, Oxford University Press. Read Intro in depth and browse the rest of the book for general overview.
- 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.
Short Bio:
Mi YOU travels physically and metaphysically on the silk road. She curated performative programs at Asian Culture Center (Gwangju) and the inaugural Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival (2016) taking the silk road as a figuration for deep-time, de-centralized and nomadic imageries. With Binna Choi, she is co-initiator of a long-term research/curation project Unmapping Eurasia (2018-). She is faculty member at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and writes on art, performance philosophy and science and technology studies. She is member of Academy of Arts of the World (Germany) and serves as director of Arthub (Shanghai) advisor to The Institute for Provocation (Beijing).
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%
Journal/Blog 20%
In-class assignments 20%
Final Assignment 40%
Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.
ASSIGNMENTS
Journal/Blog
A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):
- The journal should be structured in a generally comprehensible manner
- The lecture notes, including annotations, are stored
- Notes, sketches for each lesson should be included as well
Exercise Observation
The theoretical discussion of the subject is substantiated by a practical observation that can be presented in a freely selectable form. However, this should address the following questions:
(1) What is the origin of space?
(2) Why is this political?
(3) How is space observed and perceived?
(4) How changed does space become through observation and perception?
(5) How does the reader perceive space through the nature of the description?
Essay
The final assignment should develop a question from the topics dealt with and include these in form of a critical or argumentative essay.
Extent of the essay about 2500 words with references and bibliography.
The essay can be written in German or English.
Essay deadline: 07.06.2019 uploaded to the IAD server: (folder essay assignment) smb://fileredu.ad.zhdk.ch/DDE/BDE_VIAD-MATERIAL/01_VORLESUNGEN & PROJEKTE/19FS/Sem4_If only_theory
COURSE MATERIALS
Readings are made available in the shared IAD server: smb://fileredu.ad.zhdk.ch/DDE/BDE_VIAD-MATERIAL/01_VORLESUNGEN & PROJEKTE/19FS/Sem4_If only_theory
Students blogs:
https://medium.com/if-only-design-technology-and-society
https://blog.colinschmid.net/tag/technology-society/
https://rchenblog.wixsite.com/theoryclass
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/jenniferduartezhdk
https://mk-technology-society.tumblr.com
https://medium.com/@dominik.szakacs
https://melanieabbet.tumblr.com
https://medium.com/@lilian1997.ll/technology-and-society-e398108e5863
https://designtheory.tumblr.com
If Only: design, technology and society
https://stefanlustenberger-ifonly.tumblr.com