"You have to make up your mind either to make sense or to make money, if you want to be a designer."
-- Buckminster Fuller
March 29 :: Intro to Class, Syllabus, Attendance, etc.
Read: Course Syllabus.
March 31 :: What is Design? Why Design?
Read: About Buckminster Fuller, Victor Papanek, "Do It Yourself Murder." Design Science Planning Process
Look at: Natalie Jeremijenko, Let's teach fish to text! and other outlandish ideas, Phillipe Stark, Why is Design?, NJ's Environmental Health Clinic, dymaxion map
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section one -- the classroom
April 5 :: Vision ::Read: Bell Hooks. Ernest Callenbach, Excerpt from Ecotopia. Daniel Quinn, Excerpt from My Ishmael.
Look at: Public School, Anhoek School, Free School Santa Cruz
April 7 :: Vision ::
Paolo Friere Excerpt from Pedagogy of the Oppressed & Teachers as Cultural Workers, Augusto Boal, Excerpt from Theater of the Oppressed.
April 10 :: Strategy // Assignment Due ::
A1. Conduct an assessment of your experience of The University Classroom. How is the social constructed? How are bodies associated and distributed in space? What kind of information is exchanged? How is it exchanged?
Create a detailed visual information map, or reconstruct it in Second Life.
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April 12 :: Assessment ::
Read: Readings, After the Fall.
Look at: RSA Animate, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
April 14 :: Assessment ::
Look at: The Dialog Table, Talkaoke Workshop: PHP + MySQL
April 17 :: Strategy // Assignment Due ::
A2. Using A1 as a starting point, revise the classroom to match a pedagogical model of learning that counters Friere's "banking model of education," and supports his and Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. If we could remodel the interior of your classroom, what might be good to do? What structures and information flows would better support lateral teaching methods and constructive social interactions? How about different and compelling power relationships? How can everyone in the classroom teach each other? How can everyone talk to each other? How can classroom structure and layout facilitate this? What gets learned? What is the role of the professor in this model? How does the layout and dynamic flow of bodies in space support this. You should work in the same environment of A1, so that A1 and A2 can be compared. You might make overlays in DHTML or Flash for example.
section two -- emergencies
April 19 :: Vision ::Read: about DARPA Steve Mann "Sousveillance." Howard Reingold, excerpt from Smart Mobs.
Look at: NERT. urban remix. History of the Internet. Fluid Nexus. The Witness Project. Oscar Grant. Twitter. "Egyptians Connecting to the Internet via Modem, Fax, Ham Radio." Watch: Empire: Social Networks, Social Revolution Workshop: Flash.
April 21 :: Vision ::
Read: The Bio-hacking Hobbyist. Elaine Scarry, Citizenship in Emergency. Look at: UC emergency Plan.
Look at: Urban Space Station In Class Screening: Strange Culture.
April 24 :: Strategy// Assignment Due :: A3. Create a series of icons and symbols that relate to emergency situations. Make a symbol for fire, flood, earthquake, fallen trees, radiation, injury, water source, food source, directional flows, etc.
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April 26 :: Assessment ::
Read: Web Ecology Project, "The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days."
April 28 :: Assessment ::
Read: Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension.
May 1 :: Strategy // Assignment Due ::
A4. Conduct an assessment of the UC Emergency Plan found here. How is information disseminated? How is it disseminated over time? How do bodies move though the University landscape - what are the traffic flows? You might show this temporally through div layers in DHTML or using Flash. OR Devise your own distributed, networked emergency plan. What would it look like? How would it work? Would people need to be trained? How would resources be distributed? You might study handbooks or information guides to best figure out how to convey information in this way.
section three -- the garden
May 3 :: Vision ::Read: Joline Blais, "Indigenous Domain: Permaculture Pumpkins and Perl." Stephen Johnson excerpt from Emergence. Autopoesis. Open and Closed Systems.
Look at: Slime Mold video 1 Slime Mold video 2
May 5 :: Vision ::
Read: Antonio Roman-Alcala, on "Real Wealth." History of Enclosure. Daniel Quinn, Excerpt from My Ishmael.
Look at: Creative Commons.
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May 10 :: Assessment ::
Read: Margaretha Haughwout & Jay Rosenberg, "The Fence."
Look at: Lateral Organizational Designs for Hayes Valley Farm
May 12 :: Work Day ::
May 15 :: Strategy // Assignment Due ::
A5: Group Project : Work on one of the following :: Guerilla Grafting website. How to indicate Real Wealth. Public Option website. Map information and material flows of an urban garden. Visualize a story, anectdote, problem or scenario from this section in Second Life.
section four -- studio
May 17 :: work on final projects ::Read: TBA based on project
Look at: TBA based on project
May 19 :: ::
Read: TBA based on project
Look at: TBA based on project
May 22 :: Strategy // Assignment Due ::
Due: A6. Parti.
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May 24 :: work on final projects ::
Read: TBA based on project
Look at: TBA based on project
May 26 :: work on final projects ::
Read: TBA based on project
Look at: TBA based on project
May 29 :: Strategy // Assignment Due ::
A7. Approach.
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May 31 :: work on final projects ::
Read: TBA based on project
Look at: TBA based on project
June 2 :: work on final projects ::
Read: TBA based on project
Look at: TBA based on project
June 9 :: Final Project Due::
A8. Release.