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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 will discuss a specific IAD approach grounded on the notion of Inter-Action and discuss its basis of relational and activity-based thinking and making. This seminar will provide a fundamental base for the upcoming semesters interweaving theory and practice into discourse.

 

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.

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 


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

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: seminar room 4.T31

We discuss concepts such as "embodiment", "mind-body dualism", "education", "affordance", "affect", and take a quick look at the Skinner Box. We talk about the design and readability of incentives in our environment and ask: Is there a difference between behaviour, social behaviour, and conditioned behaviour? What do we have to consider as a designer when we first know this difference?

Questions: What means human behaviour, embodiment, mediation and thinking through design?

  • Skinner, B.F. (1948). Walden Two. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.

  • Skinner, B.F. (1986). Some Thoughts about the future. In: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. Boston, Mass.: Harvard University. p 229-235

  • Plessner, H.(1982).Elemente menschlichen Verhaltens. In: Mit anderen Augen. Aspekte einer philosophischen Anthropologie. Stuttgart: Reclam. 

  • Nakamura, 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

01_Skinner_Walden_Two_Die_Vision_einer_aggressionsfreien_Gesellschaft.pdf
02_Skinner_Somethoughtsabouthefuture.pdf03_Plessner_1982.pdf
04_Concept_of_Flow_Csikszentmihalyi_2009.pdf

Session 10: Essay  topic / motivation / structure  presentation

short stories and fictions about the everyday life of tomorrow.

16. November 2020.

time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: seminar room 4.T31

We discuss concepts such as "embodiment", "mind-body dualism", "education", "affordance", "affect", and take

Session 11: What is Interaction Design? Essay presentations

7. December 2020.

time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom

We discuss concepts such as "embodiment", "mind-body dualism", "education", "affordance", "affect", and take

Session 12: You - Interaction Designer

14. December 2020.

time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Zoom

Individual discussion and feedback

07. October 2019. Thinking and Action.  Third stage of becoming an Interaction Designer.

time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: seminar room 4.T31

What means consciousness? How do we think, what a personified experience is and how can we maneuver between atomism and holistic world experience? What is certain, is Bruno Labour: "As soon as theory has performed its analytical section and the sound of the breaking bones is heard, it is no longer possible to explain how we are to construct and how to live. Then there is only an attempt to subdue subjects and objects, words, and the world, society, nature, mind, and matter, all of which are mere shards, which are made to prevent any harmony."

Questions: What means thinking, consciousness, control, human experience and responsibilty?

  • Noë, A. (2010). Du bist nicht Dein Gehirn. Eine radikale Philosophie des Bewusstseins. München: Piper Verlag, München.

  • Latour, B. (1999). Pandora's Hope: An Essay on the Reality of Science Studies. Boston, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

01_Noe_DubistnichtdeinGehirn.pdf
02_Latour_VorsichtigerPrometheus.pdf


14. October 2019. The Social, Networks, Economies and Space for Experiences. Fourth stage of becoming an Interaction Designer.

time: 10.30 - 12.30pm
location: seminar room 4.T31

What happens, if relationships between people change and what might this be related to technology? We are trying to develop an idea about what we call the social, about networks and the role of design.

Questions: What means social, frameworks, economies, cyber culture, surveillance?

  • Elias, N. (1987/1991). Wandlungen der Wir-Ich_Balance. In: Die Gesellschaft der Individuen. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, S. 209 - 226.

  • Hardin, G. (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162 (3859): 1243–1248.

  • Sassen, S. (2001) Die Rolle der neuen Technologien . Freies, informelles Wissen  und wozu es befähigt. In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 2/2011.

01_Elias_WasistSoziologie.pdf
02_Hardin_Tragedyofthecommons.pdf
03_Sassen_Rolle-Neuer-Technologien.pdf

Part II: Writing Practice 

11. November 2019, We are imagining our career path and possible future success as Interaction Designer.

time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: seminar room 4.T31


We will be mapping our Alchemic Journey and furthermore investigate into academic writing.

  • Papanek, V. (1971). Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change. New York: Pantheon Books.

01_Papanek_design_victor_whatisdesign.pdf
02_Writing_at_University.pdf
03_Energy-harvesting & Self-Actuated Textiles for the home- Designing with New Materials & Technologies.pdf

25. November 2019, We present our short stories and fictions about the everyday life of tomorrow.

time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
location: Seminarraum 4.T31

We will write about the experience of what has happened or what might become real in the future through individual scopes. We will investigate towards approaches, questions and points of interest to our future field of activity.

  • Fisher, W. R. (1987). Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

01_Fisher_HumanCommunicationasNarration.pdf


Essay writing (ca. 5 Seiten) Abgabe 15. Dezember auf IAD server


  1. Einstiegswelt: Intro der Umgebung und Einstieg in das Geschehen (Alltag)


  2. Trigger: Was kann passieren, was ausserhalb der Kontrolle vom Protagonist sein kann?
 _3. Suche: Wie kann die neue Existenz gelebt werden? (positiv oder negativ?)


  3. Unerwartete Events: Können nun positiv und negativ sein (Dinge, Hindernisse, andere Charaktere (Helfer,..))


  4. Konflikt/Entscheidung - Welcher Pfad wird gewählt?


  5. Ende mit Veränderungen (neue Welt/neuen Alltag erreicht?!) - entscheiden welche Charaktere involviert sein sollten?



  • What is the topic/issue/phenomenon that you aim to investigate?

  • Is it a problem that you want to solve or an opportunity that presents itself?

  • 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?


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 30% 

Presentation Short Stories 30%

Final Assignment 40%


Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.