The first day of class will be held in BCNM Commons
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Handout: Field Activity 01: Going Postal (Postmarked by 28 Aug)
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.)
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
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.
Lecture: Laser Cutter Introduction
Lecture: 3D Printer Introduction
Lecture: 3D Modeling Introduction
Handout Field Activity 02: Guerilla Stencil (due 21 Sep)
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.
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Critique Field Activity 02: Gorilla Stencil
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Lecture: People
Handout: Provocation 02: Hyper Personal Protoyping (Due 28 Oct)
Field Activity 03: Zines!
Lecture: Microcontrollers and Programming
Handout: Electronic Kits
Guest Lecture: Sarah Fox from Tactile and Tactical (TAT) Design Lab at University of Washington
Reading: James Spradley
Worksession
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.)
Guest Lecture: Christian Frock curator for Public Works show at Mills College
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Critique: Provocation 02: Hyper Personal Protoyping
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.
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.
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.
Critique: Field Activity 03: Berkeley Memento
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Cross Critique
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9:00-12:00 Final Presentations in 220 Jacobs
Demo and Posters in Winter Design Showcase in 310 Jacobs 2:30-4:30pm Thur 10 Dec
Final materials due on 11 Dec (11:59pm)