DATE | TOPIC | = | ||||
00 | Spring 2018 | Course Details | ||||
Thursdays, 9:00-11:50 PM
Instructor: Noa Kaplan
Teaching Assistant: Eric Fanghanel
The Class:
Assignments & Requirements:
Event Reports: 20%
Review 1 due 9:00 AM, Thursday, May 3
Take Home Midterm: 30%
Final Project: 50%
Attendance:
Academic Expectations:
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01 | 04/05/2018 | Methodologies | ||||
Covered: design thinking, design fiction, diy, form + function, iteration, human-centered design, hype cycle, maker movement, prototyping, research-based practice, speculative design, transmedia, worldbuilding Exercise: Methodologies Required Reading: Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (2013), chapters 1 and 2. ![]() | ||||||
02 | 04/12/2018 | Information-Interface-Interaction | ||||
Covered: big data, camera vision, coordinate systems, data visualization, embodiment, gesture, immersion, interactivity, interoperability, spatial computing, telecommunication Visiting speaker: Director of Interaction Design, Oblong Industries Required Reading: Lev Manovich, Software Takes Command (2013), Chapter 1, pages 31-70 in the pdf![]() | ||||||
03 | 04/19/2018 | Automation and Artificial Intelligence | ||||
Covered: algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, automation, bots, conditional design, cyborgs, fuzzy logic, labor displacement, machine learning, moore’s law, robotics, singularity, turing test, universal basic income Required Reading: Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Opression (2018), pages 1-39 of the pdf. ![]() | ||||||
04 | 04/26/2018 | The Internet of Things | ||||
Covered: blockchains, cryptocurrency, data collection, decentralization, mesh networks, micro-controllers, privacy, sensors, surveillance, transparency, trust, wearables Visiting speaker: Jesse Stecklow Required Reading: Satoshi Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" (2009),Wendy Chun, Updating to Remain the Same (2016) pg. 1-20 ![]() | ||||||
05 | 05/03/2018 | Social Networks | ||||
Covered: analytics, branding, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, culture work, digital activism, fake news, identity, influencers, peer-to-peer, profiling, relational aesthetics, sharing economy, social media, targeted advertising, virality Visiting speakers: Sarah Ciston and Fidelia Lam Assignment: Take Home Midterm![]() | ||||||
06 | 05/10/2018 | Design For Good | ||||
Assignment Due: Take Home Midterm Covered: anthropocene, built-in obsolescence, credibility, dependence, environmental impact, impact model, labor exploitation, intellectual property, lobbying, marketing, revenue model Required Reading/Viewing: Krzysztof Wodiczko, "Interrogative Design" (1994), and Matthew Manos, "Entrepreneurship" (2017). ![]() | ||||||
07 | 05/17/2018 | Remix Culture | ||||
Covered: commons, cultural appropriation, curation, open-source, postmodernism, poststructuralism, reappropriation, remix Visiting speaker: Triton Mobley Required Reading: Morehshin Allahyari, "The Additivist Manifesto" (2015). Neda Ulaby, "He Died At 32, But A Young Artist Lives On In LA's Underground Museum," (2016).![]() | ||||||
08 | 05/24/2018 | Parametricism | ||||
Covered: additive manufacturing, biomimicry, biomorphism, blobjects, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing, computer numeric control, new materialism, non-destructive transformations, parametricism, subtractive manufacturing Required Reading: Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov, “The Blobject Begins to Take Shape” and “The Look and Feel of Optimism” from Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design (2005) ![]() | ||||||
09 | 05/31/2018 | Mixed Realities | ||||
Assignment Due: Review 2 Covered: augmented reality, drones, games, light field photography, mixed reality, photogrammetry, the new aesthetic, virtual reality Required Reading: Bruce Sterling, "An Essay on the New Aesthetic" (2012), James Bridle, The New Aesthetic and its Politics (2013) ![]() | ||||||
10 | 06/07/2018 | Open Dialogues | ||||
Assignment Due: Prototype of Final Project Covered: agile, citation, community, constructive criticism, copy editing, demoing, open beta, pivoting, play-testing, quality assurance, quality control, shipping, thrashing, user feedback, user support Final Project Due Friday June 8 by 12:00 PM ![]() | ||||||