All readings can be found online

POV 4a  (for conversation on Monday 4/20/15)

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

POV 4b  (for conversation on Wednesday 4/22/15)

Designing Systems at Scale by Fred Dust and Ilya Prokopoff

DUE DATES

POV 4 Outline & Essay – Monday 4/27/15

POV 2b reading

‘Defining the Object of Study’

extracted from Design History and the History of Design

by John Walker

• Diagram of the Eames design process

• Murray Moss owner of the store “Moss” in NYC open from 1994-2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/garden/moss-the-soho-design-emporium-is-closing.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/fashion/murray-moss-moves-on.html?_r=0

• Various links mentioned in class

https://openideo.com/

https://www.kickstarter.com/

https://www.etsy.com/

http://20×200.com/

• The Art of Getting Over by Stephan Powers

• Murals & Graffiti

Portland murals mentioned in class (NW Washington St between 11th and 12th)

• Artist Jerry Inscoe ‘Joker’

POV 2a reading

‘Design, Designers and the Literature of Design’

extracted from Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750-1980 

by Adrian Forty

• Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson

• 7 basic plots as remembered from second grade by IPL volunteer librarian Jessamyn West:
  1. [wo]man vs. nature
  2. [wo]man vs. [wo]man
  3. [wo]man vs. the environment
  4. [wo]man vs. machines/technology
  5. [wo]man vs. the supernatural
  6. [wo]man vs. self
  7. [wo]man vs. god/religion

• Jupiter Ascending  Directors:  Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

• Hundredth monkey effect 

• Designing Systems at Scale  by Fred Dust and Ilya Prokopoff

We will be meeting in rm 152 (right next door) on the following dates

4/15, 4/22 and 5/20

Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects  by A Dunne, F Raby

http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/bydandr/13/0 – in addition to week 1’s reading

TECHNOLOGICAL DREAMS SERIES: NO.1, ROBOTS, 2007 by Dunne & Raby