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Metapolis

Arch 209x, CNM 290wed 10-1, 
104 Wurster Hall 

Instructors                   
Anthony Burke, Architecture
Eric Paulos, Intel Research
Beau Trincia, GSI, IDEO

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index > syllabus > bibliography/references > wiki > research projects

project 1 > project 2 >

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SYLLABUS

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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)

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Week 2 09.06.06

Design Matrix brainstorm session

Groups formed for project 1

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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

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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.

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Week 5 09.27.06

Reading

Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground, (MIT Press, Cam. Mass) 2005, chapter 2 “embodied predispositions” p 27-46

Desk Crits

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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.

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Week 7 10.11.06

Guest 1 (tbc)

Project 2 Brainstorm session

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Week 8 10.18.06

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

Eric away

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Week 9 10.25.06

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

Anthony away

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Week 10 11.01.06

Project 2 in class exhibition and review

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Week 11 11.08.06

Guest 2 (tbc)

Reading
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, (English trans. Harcourt Brace and Company, Orlando Florida) 1974

Desk Crits

Eric away

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Week 12 11.15.06

Reading
Anthony Dunne, Hertzian Tales, (MIT Press, Cam. Mass) 2005, chapter tba

Desk Crits

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Week 13 11.22.06

Guest 3 (tbc)

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

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Week 14 11.29.06

Desk Crits

Final prep for presentation

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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.
Grades shall be awarded individually and based on the following break down, project 1- 40%, project 2 -50%, class participation 10%
Working in groups will be expected for all projects
You are expected to be on time to class, and to work on your projects in class for the full duration of the seminar
You are expected to contribute at least once a week to the wiki or blog discussion
Approximate minimum time spent on this class outside of posted hours should be approximately 6 hours a week.

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