INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 3rd semester
Spring 2019
INSTRUCTORS
Dr Joëlle Bitton, joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch
Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, info@jeanbaptistefastrez.com
Verena Ziegler, verena.ziegler@zhdk.ch
Office hours by appointment
Class sessions include a lecture/discussion each Monday from 13.00-15.00 ZT 4.T31
OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
12 sessions structured around 3 sections:
- Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems held by Verena Ziegler
- ... held by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
- ... held by Dr Joëlle Bitton
Session 01 – 18.02 Observation I (Verena Ziegler)
Georges Perec, “The Street,” in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, (London: Penguin, 2008).
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.
Session 02 – 25.02 Observations II Spaces and Politics (Verena Ziegler)
Michel Foucault, “Der Panoptismus” in Überwachen und Strafen: Die Geburt des Gefängnisses (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008).
Session 03 - 04.03. Spaces (Verena Ziegler)
>>> Short presentations of observations (2 min.)
Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias”, Architecture /Mouvement/ Continuité, October, 1984; (“Des Espace Autres,” March 1967 Translated from the French by Jay Miskowiec)
Didier Faustino
Session 04 – 11.03 Artifacts and Politics (Verena Ziegler)
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).
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Winner-Artifacts-Politics.pdf
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).
Session 05 – 18.03 Ecosystems (Verena Ziegler)
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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 20%
Journal/Blog 20%
In-class assignments 20%
Final Assignment 40%
Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.
ASSIGNMENTS
Journal/Blog
A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):
- The journal should be structured in a generally comprehensible manner
- The lecture notes, including annotations, are stored
- Notes, sketches for each lesson should be included as well
Exercise Observation
Essay
COURSE MATERIALS
Readings are made available in the shared IAD server:
CALENDAR
Final Assignment Essay: deadline