IxD Seminar ‘09

Rouvelle

jrouvelle@mica.edu

 

Week 1

Intro

 

John Bargh  (priming)

Derren Brown (priming)

Daniel Kahneman (priming paradigm, association of ideas/the associative network within our mind)

Brian Wansink,

 

What does this mean for an IxD?

 

Assignment:  What is IxD?  How are you and IxD?

Week 2

Action Research “it is only through changing social environments that we begin to understand them”

Kevin Mitnick, Hope 2603 Lecture

·             How is Kevin Mitnich an IxD?

Seniors’ presentation/discussion

Assignment: Resume/Artist Statement

 

Week 3

Comparing natural experiments, criticality, decision making, and sensitivity to initial conditions.

 

Last week we spoke a bit about how the ability to change one’s mind, to consciously deliberate and use imagination to make choices is prominent in humans.

Another way of saying this is that humans can make conscious decisions.

We remain animals, however, and are tightly coupled with our environment.

Daniel Kahneman talked about a system of intuition and reasoning that he described as System 1 and System 2.

Here is a summary.

 

With Jared Diamond’s interesting idea of comparing natural experiments in mind, let’s look at some art/design implications, with an eye toward how environmental elements are partners in our decision making process.

 

First, a reminder of the NetFlix Prize and Gavin Potter’s observation that

the 20th C. was about sorting out supply, the 21st C. will be about sorting out demand.”

 

The Pedabyte Age, the net AS a database.

 

Mimi Ito’s study, “the stuff we haul around.”

 

Flickr Tag, “whatsinyourbag

 

Jennifer Gonzalez's concept of the autotopography (in the book prosthetic territories: politics & hypertechnologies) as a definition of self through the objects which are most familiar or essential to the person hauling them around uses the theory in the context of computing.

 

happiness and your license plate – an application of priming (?),

the young generation today is the most distracted generation ever.”

Thoughts?  Is that a bad thing?

 

Happiness is a bad choice for a password

 

What can we learn from looking at what we hold near?

 

Assignment: 

What’s in your bag? 

What does it say about who you are, and, very importantly, how do your interactions with those objects affect the things you do, and the decisions you make?

Write two paragraphs and post it to friendfeed.

 

 

Week 4

Laura Drogoul, visiting artist

 

Week 5

Hubble Space Telescope, Zolt Levay/Frank Summers

 

Week 6

Chris Gallagher

Jonathan Harris

 

Week 7

Ryan Smith

 

Week 8

 

Week 9

Quatrefoil/ernie falcone

Christina Wodtke: The Elements of Social Architecture

 

Week 10

Hadieh Safie: Portfolio: CV/Resume/Artist Statement

 

Assignment:  Prepare your CV/Resume/Artist Statement/Portfolio.

Next week we will meet with Serena Connelly, from R/GA Advertising.

 

Assignment: Prepare yourselves to present and answer questions about your work, as well as ask Serena about hers.  Link.

 

Week 11

Serena Connelly, R/GA Advertising.

 

Week 12

Visitor/field trip review:

Laure Drogoul

Chris Gallagher

Ryan Smith

Hubble Space Telescope

Quatrefoil

 

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Jan Chipchase, Lead Researcher for Nokia

·             future perfect (one of his blogs)

·              Younghee Jung, what can we learn by inviting people to be designers?

 

Susan Blackmore, Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

·             Remember Ernie Falcone from Quatrefoil mentioned “Transactive Design”?

·              Kevin Kelly, what does the future want?

 

Evan Williams on How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses.

·             vvork

·              vvork on twitter

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On May 1 each of you will give a ten minute presentation on your own work:

 

The presentation should include:

·             A brief introduction about who you are, what you do, and what you will speak about.

·              Your own work,

·              Mention of Three supporting works/ideas by other artists/designers.

·              Use powerpoint or keynote.

·              We will crit your presentation.

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Week 13

Future Farmer’s Fieldtrip

 

Cameron Sinclair

 

Joelle Tuerlinckx, Space Thesis

 

Career Development Literature for internships, resumes, and artist statements

 

Assignment:

Work on your presentations!

Read over the relevant chapters in the .pdf from Career Development!

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Week 13

 

·             Emotiv@GDC08

 

·             Company website

 

·             The Century of the Self, pt. 3

 

·             The Century of The Self, pt. 4

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Week 14

 

John Maeda

·             maedastudio

·             patterns of simplicity

 

Donald Norman

·             Emotional design

 

Twitter/swine flu experiment.

·             Twitter disseminates “bad” information based more on twitterers’ desire for increased followers than reporting the truth, complains national news agency…

·             Google maps swine flu mashup

·             openflu

 

Century of Self/New Yorker article

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Week 15

 

Final Presentations

 

Have a good summer!

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