Dozierende: Karmen Franinovic
Inter-Action Design seminar is an introduction into the field of interaction design, its history, concepts and future perspectives, from user-centred to life-centred design. We also discuss a specific IAD approach grounded on the notion of Inter-Action and its foundation in relational and activity-based thinking and making. This seminar will provide a base for the upcoming semesters courses and your projects in which we will interweave theory and practice.
Note: As some of the readings are not freely accessible, all the readings will be provided at Paul learning platform course Theorie 1.2 VIAD Inter-Action Design BDE-BDE-T-VS-1002.20H.001
Coop Himmelb(l)au in Basel, 1971
Session 1: Human-Centred Design
21. September 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Topics: history of interaction design, user-centred design, tangible design, critical design…
Moggridge, B. ed.. Designing Interactions (2007). MIT Press.
Papanek, V. (1971). Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change. New York: Pantheon Books. Papanek_design_victor_whatisdesign.pdf
Session 2: Diversity beyond Human
23. September 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Guest: Prof. Dr. Sascha Roesler
Topics: atmosphere, spatial diversity, bio diversity
TBA
Session 3: Design Symposium
28. September 2020.
Session 4: Attunement : Theory in the Field
30. September 2020.
time: 9.00am - 12.00pm
location: Zurich outdoors
Topics : attunement, promenadology
Th. Morton, “Attune” in Cohen, J.J. and Lowell D.. Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/57348.
ed. M. Kuzmanovic and N. Gaffney, Dust & Shadow Reader #2, FoAM, 2019. https://fo.am/publications/dust-shadow-reader-2/
R. Kirschner and K. Franinović, ”Interacting in Entangled Environments” in Not at Your Service: Design Manifestos, Eds. B. Franke and H. Matter, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2020.
Session 5: Ecological Thinking / Interaction : Theory in the Field
30. September 2020.
time: 13.00am - 17.00pm
location: Zurich outdoors
Topics : affordances, embodiment, enactive interaction
Gibson, J.J. (1986). The Theory of Affordances. In Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
GibsonJ-The-Theory-of-Affordances.pdfNakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2009).The concept of flow. In Snyder, C. R., & Lopez, S. J. (Ed.). Oxford handbook of positive psychology. Oxford University Press, USA. 89-105
Noë, A. (2010). Du bist nicht Dein Gehirn. Eine radikale Philosophie des Bewusstseins. München: Piper Verlag, München. Noe_DubistnichtdeinGehirn.pdf
Session 6: Inter-Action
5. October 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Topics : digital, analog, digitalisation, inter-action, intra-action
Franinovic, K. ”Inter-Action/Inter-Acting” in Handbuch Künstlerische Forschung, Ed. J. Badura, A. Haarmann and S. Dubach. Diaphanes, 2015.
Kleinman, A. “Intra-Actions” interview with Karen Barad, Mousse 34, 2012.
Session 7: Otherness
12. October 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Questions: posthuman, gender
Session 8: Complexity
19. October 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Questions: acting, leveraging
Meadows, D. Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, Hartland: The Sustainability Inst. 1999.
K. Franinović and R. Kirschner, “Microbiospherians: Leveraging Microbes in Biosphere 2”, Journal of Performance Research, Vol. 25, No. 3: „On Microperformativity“ Routledge, 2020.
Session 9: Life-Centred Design
9. November 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Jane Fulton Suri, The Future is Life-Centred https://www.mixed-methods.org/episodes/2019/7/24/the-future-is-symbiotic-jane-fulton-suri-ideo
TBA
Session 10: Essay topic / motivation / structure
16. November 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Essay topic: What is interaction design?
Through the course, we have seen many topics and approaches to designing interactions, both digital and analogue. Pick up one of these approaches or topics and develop it through your own questions and ideas. Chose at least one project that exemplifies the approach or topic you have chosen and discuss how theoretical positions and questions have been developed in further through practice.
Essay writing (3-5 Pages)
What is the topic/issue/phenomenon that you aim to investigate?
What research questions could you ask or what statements could you make?
What methods would you use to to answer the questions or prove your hypothesis?
What is your motivation for investigating this topic?
Session 11: What is Interaction Design? Essay presentations
7. December 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Session 12: Exam / Feedback
14. December 2020.
time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom
Individual discussion and feedback
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 40%
Essay / Exam 60%
Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.