METAPOLIS
Arch 209x, CNM 290
wed 10-1,
104 Wurster Hall
Instructors
Anthony Burke, Architecture
Eric Paulos, Intel Research
Beau Trincia, GSI, IDEO
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METAPOLIS Arch 209x, CNM 290 wed 10-1, Instructors |
SYLLABUS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 1 08.30.06 Sorting out enrollment, intro to class. Intro discussion, Eric and Anthony Discussion, distribute reading list, intro project 1 (see above) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 2 09.06.06 Design Matrix brainstorm session Groups formed for project 1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 3 09.13.06 Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Design Noir, The secret life of Electronic Objects, (Birkhauser, Bazel) 2001, "section 01: DIY Realities" p 6-14, "section 02: Hertzian Space" p 15-44 Desk Crits +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 4 09.20.06 We will not hold class this week, as both Eric and Anthony will be part of hosting the “Ex-urban Noir” workshop for UBICOMP 2006. However, you should upload a power point presentation or similar to a spot somewhere on the web (flickr, wherever) and post the URL on the blog. (or send it to Anthony and Eric) for review and comment. This presentation should be between 10 and 15 slides or images that explain the concept and approach to your project. It should show what background you are basing your expectations of behavior on, and some sense of the history of the object you have chosen to hack. Importantly, you should use this moment to place your object back into the field for testing and preliminary results. You should test for technical capability, effect on users, spectators, any effect on the environment, as well as such non-empirical aspects such as scale, weight, appeal, etc. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 5 09.27.06 Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground, (MIT Press, Cam. Mass) 2005, chapter 2 “embodied predispositions” p 27-46 Desk Crits +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 6 10.04.06 Project 1 review Review will take place in the second floor lobby exhibition area of Wurster Hall, and the adjoining courtyard. Be set up for 9:00am. Guests arrive 9:45, review starts at 10am. Bagels provided. Please make sure to request any special spatial requirements before the review. We will be inviting guests from outside the university and the department to join us for this mini exhibition and demonstration morning. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 7 10.11.06 Guest 1 (tbc) Project 2 Brainstorm session +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 8 10.18.06 Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities, Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas trans. (Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA) 1996, 2005, chapter 14 “Right to the city” p147-160 Desk Crits +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 9 10.25.06 Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, (University of California Press, Berkeley) 1984, “General Introduction”, p xi-xxiv and “Walking in the city”, p 91-111 Desk Crits +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 10 11.01.06 Project 2 in class exhibition and review +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 11 11.08.06 Guest 2 (tbc) Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Desk Crits +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 12 11.15.06 Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Desk Crits +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 13 11.22.06 Guest 3 (tbc) Wiki inspection reading presentation, show and tell 30 minutes (group 1 present a selection of websites they’ve posted to the blog and take us on a tour, and present salient points of one of the required readings and one of their own) Reading Eugene Thacker, “Forword : Protocol is as Protocol Does” in Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How control exists after decentralization, (MIT Press, Cam. Mass) 2004, p xi-xxiii In class project presentation and review +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 14 11.29.06 Desk Crits Final prep for presentation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Week 15 12.06.06 Final Review and exhibition, location and time TBD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Seminar requirements * More than 3 unexplained absences from class are grounds for an immediate fail grade. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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