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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 1413.
The paper can be written in English or German.
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Additional readings can be proposed to underline a particular aspect and should be considered.
CALENDAR overview
Class 1 - 2120.9. - Introduction
Class 2 - 521.1009. - Systems Material and BodiesEnvironmental Dynamics
Class 3 - 1204.10. - Material Systems and Environmental DynamicsBodies
Class 4 - 1911.10. - Services and Infrastructure
Class 5 - 2618.10. - Anthropocene
Class 6 - 225.1110. - Wavescapes
Class 7 - 9 1.11. - Essay preparation
Class 8 - 168.11. - Introduction to data and data literacy
Class 9 - 2315.11. - Artificial Intelligence
Class 10 - 3022.11. - Data, Democracy and Surveillance Capitalism
Class 11 - 729.1211. - Essay support
Special Date: 1413.12. - Deadline Essay
Personal feedback on your final essays will be given by January 1517, 20202022.
DESCRIPTION of the TOPICS and texts in the individual CLASSES
Class 1 - 21 20.9. - Introduction
Introduction to the course, explanation and organisation of tasks/dates
Guidelines for writing the final essay
Class 2 - 5- 21.09. - 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 Johannes, Nicola
Project Topics:
(- Sourcing materials)
- Material-Environment Interactions
presented by Svenja
Class 3 - 4.10. - 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 ?Réjane, Micaela
Project Topics:
- Multisensory experiences, Haptics and Space
- Sensing through scales (micro-meso-macro)
presented by ?
Class 3 - 12.10. - 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 ?
Project Topics:
- Sourcing materials
- Material-Environment Interactions
presented by ?
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Silvan, Nadia
Class 4 - 11.10. - Services and Infrastructure
Readings:
a) Starosielski, Nicole (2012). "Warning: Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures." Journal of Visual Culture. 11:1. April 2012. 38–57.
b) Klinenberg, Eric (2018). Palaces for the people. Crown: New York, USA. 184-197. OR Alternative!
presented by ?Bin, Silvan
Project Topics:
- Speculative service design
- Biological services
presented by ?Janosch, Elena
Class 5 -26 18.10. - Anthropocene
Readings:
a) Latour, Bruno (2018). "Das terrestrische Manifest". 21-25 & 35-68. Or alternative from new catalogue "Critical Zones!!
b) I) Gombiner, Joel (2011). "Carbon Footprinting the 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.
presented by ?Sandro, Nadia, Eleonora
Project Topics:
- Energy low design
- Anthropocene (art & design)
presented by ?Thore, Réjane
Class 6 -2 25.1110. - 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 ?Daniel, Fabrizio
Project Topics:
- Sound Art/Design
- Device Art
presented by ?Johannes, Micaela
Class 7 - 9 1.11. - Essay preparation
Hand in (half a written page) and present (2-3min) your proposal for the final essay (interests, central question, potential, challenges)!
Class 8 - 168.11. - Introduction to data and data literacy
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 ?Thore, Guan
Project Topics:
- information art (historical & latest)
- creative tracking
presented by ?Daniel, Bin
Class 9 - 2315.11. - Artificial Intelligence
Readings:
a) Hassabis, Demis (2019). The Power of Self-Learning Systems. Youtube Video, Institute for Advanced Study, 47:30min.
(extra task: explain the most important concepts/methods/algorithms in AI featured in this video!)
b) Lovelock, James (2019). Novacene: The coming age of hyperintelligence. MIT Press: Cambridge (MA), USA. 79-120
presented by ?Russell, Stuart and Nerving Peter. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th ed. Extract from Introduction and conclusion.
b) Launchbury, John (2107) The 3 waves of AI (A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence)
presented by Janosch, Svenja
Project Topics:
- designing with AI
- AI & environment
- AI & ethics
presented by ?Guan, Nicola, Miguel
Class 10 - 30 22.11. - Data, Democracy and Surveillance Capitalism
MovieText:
The Great Hack (2019). Directors: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Documentary, 1h54min.Additional Readings:
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a) Zuboff, Shoshana (2015) Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization.
b) Cadwalladr, Carole (20192018-2020). The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal. The Guardian, UK.
b) Naughton, John (2019). 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalismI) 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. ,
presented by ?Elena, Miguel
Project Topics:
- social media interventions/hacks/hoaxes
- citizen activism
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using digital platforms
- participatory projects in Switzerland (mixing digital and real world)
presented by ?Sandro, Eleonora, Fabrizio
Class 11 - 729.1211. - Essay support
Ask all your questions, talk about challenges, discuss arguments, build up, formulations etc.