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TU4018 -- Design and communication in modern culture -- Calendar/Assignments

Instructors:
Robbie McClintock | rom2@columbia.edu | Office hours
Kim Taipale | kat@ilt.columbia.edu | Office hours

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Reading Assignments

Please read assigned materials by the class indicated.
For September 18 (Handout 9/11).

Buchanan, Richard. Declaration by Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration in Design Practice. In Margolin, Victor (ed.). Design Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Handout first class).

For September 25 (Articles to be picked up in copy center - course pack 176).

Coyne, Richard and Adrian Snodgrass. Problem Setting Within Prevalent Metaphors of Design. Design Issues: Volume 11, Number 2 Summer 1995.

Buchanan, Richard. Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. Design Issues: Volume VIII, Number 2 Spring 1992.

For October 2 (Handout 9/25 and Website).

Introduction, in Beniger, James R. The Control Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1986.

Conclusion, Ibid.

Jaron Lanier, Agents of Alienation. (See also, Jaron's Home Page and Jaron's Writings.)

More to come.

Writing Assignments

For October 2:

Write a 25-50 word statement reflecting on a central theme of the "design problem" based on the readings and class discussions to date. (Please bring two hard copies to class.)

Project Assignments:

For October 9:

Set up a working home page in your individual cunix account. Publish your updated design statement (see October 2 writing assignment).

For October 16 (to be discussed in class October 9):

Publish your group design statement as discussed in class.