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INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 4th semester
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Introduction of course outline and first section: Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems
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.
section: Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems
Clarification regarding expectations and assignments to be accomplish throughout the seminar
- ©ΩQuestion 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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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:
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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 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).
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- Hansen, Valerie. (2012). The Silk Road: A New History. New 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.
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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
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