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INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 4th semester

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Clarification regarding expectations and assignments to be accomplish throughout the seminar

• Georges Perec, “The Street,” in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, (London: Penguin, 2008).
• William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, 1980;  Chapter "The street" p. 54-60

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles, BBC 1972, http://vimeo.com/22488225.

William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_-nBr2MuBk.

Question to answer in preparation to the seminar:

From what perspective do the two texts speak about the streets perception and systems? 

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• ©ΩQuestion to answer in preparation to the seminar:

From what perspective do the two texts speak about the streets perception and systems? 

Session 02 – 25.02 Observations II Spaces and Politics  

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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.

  Widget Connector
  url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCeYKOqMO4-

  (Full video)

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 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)
  

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• 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 - Commodities Trade 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
Details & Readings tba

Session 12 – 20.05 - The Silk Road

Guest Lecture: Mi You, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Details & Readings tba

Taking India as its main geographical focus, this lecture will explore the construction and transformation of the world wide web of cotton between the 16^th and the 20^th 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:

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.

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