4. Dean C. Barnlund, “Communication: The Context of Change”
Annemarie Mol, Selections from “The Body Multiple”
5. Erving Goffman, “Facial Engagements”
Carl Rogers, “Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning,” “Significant Learning:
In Therapy and in Education,” and “Dealing with Breakdowns in Communication—
Interpersonal and Intergroup,” from On Becoming a Person
6. Henri Bergson, selection from Ch. II., Time and Free Will
Barbara Radice, “Memphis and Fashion” Grad Seminar 1
Introduction
Final grades will be based on two written assignments and on class participation
Written assignments will count for 2/3 of the final grade Papers will be evaluated
for intellectual content (accuracy of representing the ideas discussed by authors,
quality of argument, and imagination in developing ideas) and written presentation
(grammar, style, and visual appearance of papers). Adjustments will be made for those
students whose native language is not English.
Class participation will count for 1/3 of the final grade. Participation will be evaluated
by readiness for discussion (evidence of having read the assigned materials),
response to questions (evidence of attempting to address the question), and effort to
contribute to class discussion.
Course Structure
Design as an inventive and intentional concern for human experience arises in
the context of four relations; the relation of human to world, human to human,
human action, and in the relation of human and cosmos. It is in the context of these
relationships that communication and interaction arise as significant themes in
design. These relationships precede the advent of new media and technologies yet
problems of interaction come to the fore as new ways in human relation form through
new products of design. In this seminar we treat the possibilities of human experience
together with the activity of design as primary, rather than limiting our attention
to tactical issues of expression in particular types of technology or circumstance.
In so doing we confront the ambiguity of the terms interaction, communication,
information and experience as well as a plurality of approaches to design.
Our goal is to develop ways of critically understanding the human-made world and
design’s role in its formation. We will examine the reality of the human-made world
in reading a variety of authors and through reference to examples of design. We will
also explore the significance of design in reference to the design of the designer, the
process of design and the products of design.
Interpretations of Interaction and
Communication
11. Plato, Phaedrus
12. Scott Buchanan, Selections from The Doctrine of Signatures
Paul Rand, selections from A Designer’s Art
Kenji Ekuan, selections
George Nelson, “Design as Communication”
Information
13. K. J. McGarry, “To Know and To Be Informed,” from The Changing Context of
Information: An Introductory Analysis
Gordon L. Miller, “The Concept of Information: A Historical Perspective on Modern
Theory and Technology”
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A. Interface: Entitative Interaction
51701 Graduate Design Seminar I
Fall 09 Mondays & Wednesdays10.00-11.20 MM A11
Ian Hargraves ihargrav [at] andrew.cmu.edu
Harold Nelson nelsongroup [at] cal.berkeley.edu
B. Transaction: Existential Interaction
The Design Way
The class will proceed along two main lines of inquiry.
As we explore The Design Way we will examine design as a characteristic way of
effecting change and develop understandings of the designer, the process of design
and of the products of design.
We will also expore the concepts of interaction and communication. We will read
works by many authors from many different fields. We will read these authors for
their differing interpretations and to develop an inclusive framework for discussing
interaction. The content and structure of this part of the course is heavily influenced
by the work of Richard Buchanan who was central in the formation and development
of the Masters programs in design at CMU.
Our conversations around the design way will be organized by the following topics:
The First Tradition
The Particular
Service
The Logic
The Whole
Desiderata
Interpretation and Measurement
Imagination and Communication
Judgment
Composition
Production and Care Taking
Metaphysics
The Guarantor-of-Design (g.o.d.)
The Evil of Design
The Splendor of Design
Learning & Education
C. Human Interaction: Essentialist Interaction
D. Participation: Ontological Interaction
7. John Dewey, “Education as a Necessity of Life” and “Education as a Social Function”,
from Democracy and Education
Lazlo Maholoy-Nagy. Selections from Vision in Motion
8. John Dewey, “Having an Experience,” from Art As Experience
9. Kenneth Burke, “The Nature of Form,” from Counter-Statement
10. Aristotle, Poetics
1.Warren Weaver, “The Mathematics of Communication”
John Fiske, “Communication Theory,” from Introduction to Communication Studies
2. Herbert A. Simon, from Models of Thought, vol. 1, “Preface” and “How Big is a
Chunk?”
George A. Miller, “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on
Our Capacity for Processing Information”
Herbert A. Simon, “Motivational and Emotional Controls of Cognition”
3. Edward T. Hall, “Adumbration as a Feature of Intercultural Communication”
John C. Condon, Jr., “Introduction to an Attitude” and “When People Talk With
People,” from Semantics and Communication
Dieter Rams, “Omit the Unimportant”
Lao Tzu, selection from Tao-te ching
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