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Fall 2019

Lecturer: Dr Roman Kirschner
roman.kirschner@zhdk.ch 

Guest Lecturer: Timo Grossenbacher


This seminar proposes to investigate the aesthetics of interaction design by connecting theory and practice. Students will learn how to contextualise their practical projects within current discourses and reflect on how their design practice may transform their theoretical assumptions and knowledge. The students will examine relevant readings and concepts both through discussions and through their practical work. The theory seminar is connected with two studio courses, Soft Architecture and Interactive Visualisation.  Related to the Soft Architecture course, each student will write an essay on a topic related to their project. Within the Interactive Visualisation course, topics such as data literacy, AI and blockchain will be discussed and connected to the practical exercises. 

The seminar will explore the aesthetics of interaction including topics such as ecological design, performative experimentation, public interventions, spatial and political design, speculative design, bio design, creative coding, data literacy, AI and blockchain. We will address these aesthetics from the perspective of their origins, cultural contexts and case studies. 



CALENDAR 


Class 1 - Monday, 23.9.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Introduction


Classes connected to Soft Architecture Studio (instructor RK)

Class 2 - Wednesday, 2.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Bodies and Spaces

Class 3 - Thursday, 3.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Material and Environmental Dynamics

Class 4 - Friday, 4.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Wavescapes

Class 5 - Saturday, 5.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Services and Infrastructure

Class 6 - Monday, 7.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Anthropocene

Class 7 - Monday, 14.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Cybernetics: Conversation and Fabrics

Class 8 - Monday, 21.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Systems and Environments


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Classes connected to Interactive Visualisation Studio (instructor TG)

Class 9 - Monday, 4.11.19 - morning - Introduction to data and data literacy

Class 10 - Friday, 8.11.19 - afternoon - Data literacy I

Class 11 - Friday, 15.11.19 - afternoon - Data literacy II

(+ one more afternoon - but when??)



Class 2 - Wednesday, 2.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Bodies and Spaces

Readings:
a) Hartmann, Klemmer, Takayama. 2006. "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design". In DIS 2006.

b) Böhme, Gernot. 2000. "Leibliche Anwesenheit im Raum". In Ästhetik und Kommunikation 108. 67-76.

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Project Topics:
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Class 3 - Thursday, 3.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Material and Environmental Dynamics

Readings:
a) Pickering, Andrew. 2013. "Being in an environment: a performative perspective". Natures Sciences Sociétés 21. 77-83.
b) Ingold, Tim. 2008. "Bringing Things to Life. Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials".

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Project Topics:
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Class 4 - Friday, 4.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Wavescapes

Readings:
a) Husokawa, Shuhei. 1984. "The Walkman Effect". In Popular Music. 4. Performers and Audiences. 165-180.

b)    I) Hessler, Stefanie. 2018. "Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic World view through Art and Science“. In Hessler (ed.). "Tidalectics". 31-34,43.
       II) Tamatoa Bambridge and Stephanie Leyronas. 2018. "The Polynesian Rahui and Global Issues of Climate". In Hessler (ed.). "Tidalectics". 133-141.

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Project Topics:
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Class 5 - Saturday, 5.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Services and Infrastructure

Readings:
a) Hartmann, Klemmer, Takayama. 2006. "How Bodies Matter: Five Themes for Interaction Design". In DIS 2006.

b) Böhme, Gernot. 2000. "Leibliche Anwesenheit im Raum". In Ästhetik und Kommunikation 108. 67-76.

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Project Topics:
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Class 6 - Monday, 7.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Anthropocene

Readings:
a) Latour, Bruno. 2018. "Das terrestrische Manifest". 21-25, 35-68.
b)    I) Gombiner, Joel. 2011. "Carbon Footprinting the Internet“. In Consilience: "The Journal of Sustainable Development“. Vol. 5. 119-124
       II) "‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025“. www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/tsunami-of-data-could-consume- fifth-global-electricity-by-2025
       III) Cook, Gary. 2017<. "Clicking clean: Who is winning the race to build a green internet?".

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Project Topics:
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Class 7 - Monday, 14.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Cybernetics: Conversation and Fabrics

Readings:
a) Pask, Gordon: A comment, a case history and a plan, in REICHARDT, Jasia (Hrsg.): Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas, New York Graphics Society 1971, 76–99
b) Beer, Stafford. 1962. "Progress Note on Research into a Cybernetic Analogue of Fabric", in Harnden, R. et al. (Eds.). 1994. "How many grapes went into the wine. Stafford Beer on the art and science of holistic management". 25–32.

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Project Topics:
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Class 8 - Monday, 21.10.19 - 8:30-10:30 - Systems and Environments

Readings:
a) Burnham, Jack. 1969. "Systems and Art". In Arts in Society. 6:2. University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969. 194-204.
b) Olson, Valerie. 2018. "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth“. 6-20.

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Project Topics:
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