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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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The 12 sessions of the seminar are structured around 3 sections: 

  1. 'Spaces, Artefacts and Politics' held by Verena Ziegler
  2. 'Complex Systems & Power Structures' held by Dr Joëlle Bitton

  3. xx  'Enabling, Framing, Orchestrating and Reasoning Design' held by Stefano Vannotti

EXPECTATIONS AND GRADING

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Essay deadline: uploaded to the IAD server on XX date.PAUL on 02.06.20.

More information and submission:
https://paul.zhdk.ch/course/view.php?id=936#section-9

COURSE MATERIALS 

Readings are made available in the shared IAD server .or PAUL (lesson 8-11)

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.

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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 – 

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30.

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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.

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04 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.

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

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Session 08

Session 09

Session 10

Session 11

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07 – 20.04.2020

Enjoy staying at home. How about already diving into the reading for next lesson?

Session 08 – 27.04.2020 – Enabling Design: MindShift, SkillShift, CultureShift

In the 8th lesson of this theory course we dive into central aspects of a strategic design attitude, into designerly approaches and tools for entrepreneurial and social challenges, and into the characteristics of a holistic design culture.

Keywords: Design Culture, Design Attitude, Systems Thinking, Transition Design, Strategic Design

More information and reading assignment:
https://paul.zhdk.ch/course/view.php?id=936#section-4

Session 09  – 04.05.2020 – Framing Design: Multi-leveled Transformation & Reflection in Action

In today's seminar we focus on the transformative process in the different design dimensions (product, system, society) and we learn how designers actively intertwingle these levels by shaping the in-between.

Keywords: Design Process, Reflective Practice, Role of the Designer

More information and reading assignment:
https://paul.zhdk.ch/course/view.php?id=936#section-5

Session 10 – 11.05.2020 – Orchestrating Design: Co-Design, Innovation Culture & Organizational Change 

This Lesson looks at a set of design methods to strengthen collaborative approaches and thematize how to foster a culture of innovation and trust in organizational settings.

Keywords: Co-Design, Design Methods, Organizational Design, Innovation Culture

More information and reading assignment:
https://paul.zhdk.ch/course/view.php?id=936#section-6

Session 11 – 18.05.2020 –  Reasoning Design: Design Argumentation, Impact Management & Storytelling

In the last lesson of our theory class we focus on aspects of successful design reasoning: measures, levels of impact and elements of storytelling.

Keywords: Design Artifacts, Design Knowledge, Design Argument, Impact Management, Storytelling

More information :
https://paul.zhdk.ch/course/view.php?id=936#section-7

Session 12 – 25.05.2020

Use the time to write your essay!