Course Syllabus • Spring 2020
22.Jan
Introduction
Lecture: Introducing Critical Making
Activity: Design Matrix
Handout: Field Activity 01: Hack This Assignment (due 27 Jan)
Signup for Maker Pass
27.Jan
DESIGNING ACTIVISM
Critique: Field Activity 01: Hack This Assignment
Handout/Groups: Provocation 01: Protest Design (due 19 Feb)
Readings:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, [Abridged], (1963).
Grindon, Gavin, and Catherine Flood. Disobedient Objects. V&A Publications, 2014, pp 9–17.
Fuad-Luke, Alastair. Design activism: beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world. Routledge, 2013, pp 1–27.
29.Jan
CARDBOARD AND FOAMCORE HACKING
Tutorial on working with cardboard, foamcore, and adhesives
Handout: Foamcore Basics
Critique: In Class Activity: Hyper Personal Stand
Handout: Field Activity 02: Sensory Cardboard (due 3 Feb)
03.Feb
DIGITAL FABRICATION
Critique: Field Activity 02: Sensory Cardboard
Lecture: Digital Fabrication
Lecture: 3D Modeling Introduction
Handout: Field Activity 03: Box It(due 10 Feb)
Related Material:
Autodesk 360 Fusion
05.Feb
ELECTRONICS INTRODUCTION
Lecture: Electronics, Microcontrollers, and Programming
Related Material:
Arduino • Sparkfun • Digikey • Jameco • Adafruit • Al Lasher's Electronics
Physical Computing by O’Sullivan and Igoe (chapters 1 & 2)
Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery by Charles Platt
Making Things Talk by Tom Igoe (selections)
Arduino in a Nutshell by Jan Borchers
Sparkfun Inventors Kit Guidebook
Sound Card Hardware : Arduino Sound Library : More Sound Card Info : PC Sound Converter
Mogees Sound with Contact Microphones
10.Feb
Electronics Worksession
Critique: Field Activity 03: Box It
Handout: Electronics Kit
Electronics Worksession
12.FEB
Worksession
Worksession
17.FEB
HOLIDAY
19.FEB
PROVOCATION 01 CRITIQUE
8 groups @ 8 min presentation each (13 min crit)
24.feb
DESIGN NOIR
Handout: Field Activity 04: Assignment Noir (due 02 Mar)
Handout/Groups: Provocation 02: Move On (due 18 Mar)
Readings:
Speculative Everything, Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, By Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby Chp 1 and 2 pp. 1-31.
Saul Greenberg, Sebastian Boring, Jo Vermeulen, and Jakub Dostal. 2014. Dark patterns in proxemic interactions: a critical perspective. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 523-532.
Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Gabriella Giannachi, Brendan Walker, Joe Marshall, and Tom Rodden. 2012. Uncomfortable interactions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2005-2014.
David Eickhoff, Stefanie Mueller, and Patrick Baudisch. 2016. Destructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical Objects. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3970-3974
Zhuying Li, Rakesh Patibanda, Felix Brandmueller, Wei Wang, Kyle Berean, Stefan Greuter, and Florian 'Floyd' Mueller. 2018. The Guts Game: Towards Designing Ingestible Games. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 271-283.
Further optional References:
Dunne, A, & F Raby, Design Noir: The secret life of electronic objects, Birkhauser, 2001. (Sec 3 “Design Noir” pp. 45-56)
26.feb
COMMUNICATING IDEAS
Lecture: How to Pitch
Lecture: Video Sketches
Worksession
02.MAR
BANG!
Critique: Field Activity 04: Assignment Noir
04.MAR
AMBIGUITY, PROBES, AND LUDIC DESIGN + META-MAKING
Readings:
Phoebe Sengers and Bill Gaver. 2006. Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation. In Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems (DIS ’06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 99-108.
Andy Boucher, Dean Brown, Liliana Ovalle, Andy Sheen, Mike Vanis, William Odom, Doenja Oogjes, and William Gaver. 2018. TaskCam: Designing and Testing an Open Tool for Cultural Probes Studies. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 71, 12 pages.
Hiroshi Ishii, Dávid Lakatos, Leonardo Bonanni, and Jean-Baptiste Labrune. 2012. Radical atoms: beyond tangible bits, toward transformable materials. interactions 19, 1 (January 2012), 38-51.
Further optional References:
Bill Gaver, Designing for Homo Ludens, i3 Magazine 2002, pp. 2-5.
Bill Gaver, Tony Dunne, & E Pacenti, Design: Cultural Probes, ACM Interactions vol. 6, no. 1, 1999, pp. 21-29.
Bill Gaver, Curious Things for Curious People, Goldsmiths Technical Report 2006
William Gaver. 2012. What should we expect from research through design?. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 937-946.
09.MAR
X-CRITIQUE
Lecture: Networked Microcontrollers
Groups cross critique session
11.MAR
Worksession
Worksession
16.MAR
Worksession
18.mar
CRITIQUE: PROVOCATION 02
23.MAR
SPRING BREAK
25.MAR
SPRING BREAK
30.MAR
Critical distancing
Checkin in and time zone triangulation
Activity: Headline Brainstorm
Activity: Prototyping Scavenger Hunt
Handout: Field Activity 05: Material Archaeology (due 1 Apr)
01.APR
Future Speculation
Critique Field Activity 05: Material Archaeology
Handout/Groups: Final Provocation: (Due 27 Apr)
Worksession
06.apr
speculative design
Asynchronous Readings • No class
Video PreludeFirst, you may think Speculative Design is only some form of academic exercise. Take a walk back to 1987 and watch Apple Computer's own Speculative Design vision of computing in the future using the Apple Knowledge Navigator (5 min). None of this existed in 1987. How much of this vision has been realized? What has not? We will discuss in class.
Readings
Bill Gaver and Heather Martin. 2000. Alternatives: exploring information appliances through conceptual design proposals Actions . In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’00). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 209–216. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332433
Conference, RTD; Mackey, Angella; Wakkary, Ron; Wensveen, Stephan; Tomico, Oscar; Hengeveld, Bart (2019): Day-to-Day Speculation: Designing and Wearing Dynamic Fabric Actions https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4747018.v1
Optional (For Fun)In March 2007, Microsoft Research organized the ‘HCI 2020’ meeting at the El Bulli Hacienda Hotel near Seville, Spain. The event’s title expressed its key question: what will Human- Computer Interaction (HCI) be like in the year 2020? This is the report they produced (see botom of linked page for report). Makes for an interesting read in the now very real 2020.
08.APR
Exquisite Design
13.APR
team checkin
Project team checkins (signup)
Note: Class will go longer this day
15.APR
design futures
Neo-Dynamism Readings:
Viirj Kan, Emma Vargo, Noa Machover, Hiroshi Ishii, Serena Pan, Weixuan Chen, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2017. Organic Primitives: Synthesis and Design of pH-Reactive Materials using Molecular I/O for Sensing, Actuation, and Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 989-1000.
Alexandra Ion, Johannes Frohnhofen, Ludwig Wall, Robert Kovacs, Mirela Alistar, Jack Lindsay, Pedro Lopes, Hsiang-Ting Chen, and Patrick Baudisch. 2016. Metamaterial Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 529-539. video
Feminist Hacking Readings:
Daniela K. Rosner, Samantha Shorey, Brock R. Craft, and Helen Remick. 2018. Making Core Memory: Design Inquiry into Gendered Legacies of Engineering and Craftwork. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 531, 13 pages.
Johanna Okerlund, Madison Dunaway, Celine Latulipe, David Wilson, and Eric Paulos. 2018. Statement Making: A Maker Fashion Show Foregrounding Feminism, Gender, and Transdisciplinarity. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 187-199.
20.APR
Design futures
Readings Discussions
Worksession
22.APR
Worksession
27.apr
No Class
Final Videos posted today by 5PM
Watch all videos (~ 1 hr)
29.apr
Final Class
Behind the Scenes Presentations (5 min each team)
Note: Class will go longer than one hour.
Final Materials Due: 2 May @ 11:59pm