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INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY SEMINAR 3rd semester

Spring 2019

INSTRUCTORS

Dr Joëlle Bitton, joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch 

Jean-Baptiste Labrune, jeanbaptisteparis@gmail.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: 

  1. Spaces, Artifacts and Ecosystems held by Verena Ziegler
  2.  Technology and Society held by Jean-Baptiste Labrune
  3.  The Design of Trade 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).
  • 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.


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).
  • Efe Basturk, "A brief Analyse on Post Panoptic Surveillance: Deleuze&Guattarian Approach", 2017, /International Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. VI, No. 2 / 2017)


Session 03 - 04.03. Spaces  (Verena Ziegler)

>>> Short presentations of observations (2 min.)

Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias”, Architecture /Mouvement/ ContinuiteĢ, October, 1984; (“Des Espace Autres,” March 1967 Translated from the French by Jay Miskowiec)

Didier Faustino, https://didierfaustino.com


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)

Jane Bennett, "Vibrant Matter - A Political Ecology of Things", Published: January 2010: Pages: 200



Session 06 – 

Session 07 – 

Session 08 – 

Session 09 – 

Session 10 – The Design of Trade - Silk Road

Session 11 – The Design of Trade - 

Session 12 – The Design of Trade - Tax wars



 

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 



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