“Designing for a Safer Future”
by Victor Papanek
from The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World pg. 29-37
This text can be found in the course book, Design Studies: A Reader
Section Six / 6.3 Sustainability # 69, pg. 469
Barbara Tversky Lecture “Finding Ideas”
Thursday, May 9, 6:00 pm
White Stag Building Room 15
Renowned cognitive psychologist, Dr. Barbara Tversky has made groundbreaking contributions to the areas of memory, perception, categorization, and spatial cognition. A characteristic of Tversky’s research is a persistent interest in the relations between people’s cognitive systems and the technologies they use to augment and reconstitute them—from cave paintings to scientific diagrams to cartoons to computerized visualization. As a result of making these connections, her work is cited widely by computer scientists, educators, architects, and geographers as well as by her fellow psychologists. Her lecture, “Finding Ideas” will focus on the relationship between spatial cognition and the technologies we use to visualize information
For more information or to RSVP, contact aaapdx@uoregon.edu.
Discussion leaders: Liz Hampton & Teressa C.
“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.
“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.
“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.
