SYLLABUS

 WEEK 1
26 AUG Introduction to Critical Practices

The first day of class will be held in BCNM Commons

Enrollment Petition here

Handout: Field Activity 01: Going Postal (Postmarked by 28 Aug)

 WEEK 2
31 AUG Making Art in Public Spaces

Reading: Helguera, Pablo. Education for Socially Engaged Art, George Pinto Books, New York, 2011. (Chapters 1 and 2, p 1-26.)

Reading: Spradley, James. Participant Observation, 1980. (Step One: Locating a Social Situation, p 39-52.)

02 SEP Observing people in Places

Watch: William Whyte “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” (watch first 16 minutes)

Reading: Milgram, S, The individual in a social world : essays and experiments, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, Reading, Mass, 1977. (Chapter 8 "Psycholohgical Maps of Paris", pp. 88-113)

Reading: Lynch, K, The Image of the City, Technology Press, Cambridge Mass, 1960. (Chapter 1 "The Image of the Environment" pp 1-13)

Handout: Provocation 01: Public Experiments (Due 28 Sep)

Assign Groups

 WEEK 3
07 SEP NO CLASS - HOLIDAY
09 SEP Urban Computing and Public Life

Critique Field Activity 01

Reading: Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins. 2005. Urban probes: encountering our emerging urban atmospheres. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 341-350.

Reading: Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman. 2004. The familiar stranger: anxiety, comfort, and play in public places. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 223-230.

 WEEK 4
14 SEP Fabrication Introduction

Lecture: Laser Cutter Introduction

Lecture: 3D Printer Introduction

Lecture: 3D Modeling Introduction

Handout Field Activity 02: Guerilla Stencil (due 21 Sep)

16 SEP Site Work

Examples of public work

Reading: Kwon, Miwon, One Place After Another, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2004. (Chapter 3: Sitings of Public Art: Integration Vs. Intervention)

Reading: Senie, Harriet. Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc: Art and Non-Art Issues, Art Journal, Winter 1989, p 298-302.

 WEEK 5
21 SEP Worksession

Worksession

Worksession

23 SEP Worksession

Critique Field Activity 02: Gorilla Stencil

 WEEK 6
28 SEP Worksession

Worksession

30 SEP Critique: Provocation 01

 WEEK 7
05 OCT People, Zines, and Forensics

Lecture: People

Handout: Provocation 02: Hyper Personal Protoyping (Due 28 Oct)

Field Activity 03: Zines!

07 OCT Electronics Introduction

Lecture: Microcontrollers and Programming

Handout: Electronic Kits

 WEEK 8
12 OCT Guest Lecture + How to Interview

Guest Lecture: Sarah Fox from Tactile and Tactical (TAT) Design Lab at University of Washington

Reading: James Spradley

Worksession

14 OCT Engaging Your Public

Reading: Helguera, Pablo. Education for Socially Engaged Art, George Pinto Books, New York, 2011. (Chapters 5 and 6, p51-56.)

Reading: Debord, Guy. Toward a Situationist International (from Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, MIT Press, 2006) p 96-101.

Reading: Jackson, Shannon. Social Works: performing art, supporting publics, Routledge, NY, 2011. (Chapter 4: p 117-130.)

 WEEK 9
19 OCT Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture: Christian Frock curator for Public Works show at Mills College

21 OCT worksession

Worksession

 WEEK 10
26 OCT worksession

Worksession

28 OCT critique: provocation 02

Critique: Provocation 02: Hyper Personal Protoyping

 WEEK 11
02 NOV From Audience to Participant

Handout: Provocation 03: Collaborative Consumption (Due 9 Dec)

Handout: Field Activity 03: Berkeley Memento (Due 16 Nov)

Lecture: 3D Fabrication and Modeling

Lecture: How to Pitch

Reading: Allan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, 1966. Notes on the Elimination of the Audience.

04 NOV Communities and Publics

Reading: Tom Finkenpearl, Dialogues in Public Art, MIT Press, 2000. (Selection pages 353 - 357).

Reading: Jennifer Jacobs and Amit Zoran. 2015. Hybrid Practice in the Kalahari: Design Collaboration through Digital Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Craft. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 619-628.

Reading: Austin L. Toombs, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell. 2015. The Proper Care and Feeding of Hackerspaces: Care Ethics and Cultures of Making. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 629-638.

Optional Reading: Jacobs, J., Resnick, M., and Buechley, L. 2014. Dresscode: supporting youth in computational design and making. In Proceedings of Constructionism 2014 Conference. Vienna, Austria.

 WEEK 12
09 NOV Long Term Participation

Watch: Yes Men (selection)

Reading: Kester, Grant, The One and the Many, Duke University Press, 2011. (Chapter 3: A Culture of Needles: Project Row Houses in Houston, p211-227.)

Reading: Art as Intervention: A Guide to Today's Radical Art Practices, Julie Perini.

11 NOV NO CLASS - HOLIDAY
 WEEK 13
16 NOV Devious Engagements

Critique: Field Activity 03: Berkeley Memento

Worksession

18 NOV Worksession

Worksession

 WEEK 14
23 NOV Cross Critique

Cross Critique

25 NOV NO CLASS THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
 WEEK 15
30 NOV Worksession

Worksession

02 DEC Worksession

Worksession

 FINAL CRITIQUE
Wed 09 Dec FINAL CRITIQUE

9:00-12:00  Final Presentations in 220 Jacobs  

Thr 10 Dec PUBLIC SHOWCASE

Demo and Posters in Winter Design Showcase in 310 Jacobs 2:30-4:30pm Thur 10 Dec

Fri 11 Dec MATERIALS DUE

Final materials due on 11 Dec (11:59pm)