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Monthly Archives: April 2013
POV 4 / Social Interactions & Theory
“Panopticism”
by Michel Foucault
from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1995, pg. 195-228
This text can be found in the course book, Design Studies: A Reader
Section Three: 3.4 / Material Culture and Social Interactions # 35, pg. 238
Or the full text can be found online here
Discussion leaders: Michael B. & Natasha M.
POV 3 / Material Culture
“Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method”
from Winterthur Portfolio 17, no. 1, 1982
by Jules David Prown
This text can be found in the course book, Design Studies: A Reader
Section Three: 3.4 / Material Culture and Social Interactions
# 33, pg. 220
Or the full text can be found online here
Discussion leaders: Joel S. & Tim P.
POV 2 / Hyperreality
“Design and Environment and or How Political Economy Escalates into Cyberblitz”
from For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
by Jean Baudrillard
This text can be found in the course book, Design Studies: A Reader
Section Three: 3.1
# 21, pg. 154
Discussion leaders: Natasha M & Teressa C.
POV 1 / Authenticity
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
1936 essay by German cultural critic Walter Benjamin
This text can be found as a PDF in your e-mail.
The complete text can be found online HERE
Discussion Leaders: Liz H. & Dan N.
First chance at EXTRA CREDIT
If you attend the lecture below and write a POV paper, DUE: Friday, April 5th for 3 pts EC! What a great way to start off the term.
Towards a Material Ecology
Lecture by Neri Oxman
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
5:30PM I Events Room, WSB
Material Ecology is an emerging field in design denoting informed relations between products, buildings, systems, and their environment. Architect and designer Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter design research group. More info Here.