Course syllabus
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Dear EmDes Yr1!
Welcome to the final course of your first year in the Embedded Design Masters Programme.
We know each other well by now so a continual warm welcome coming from me.
/Sam
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Course Syllabus and Literature List
LITERATURE IS COMING IN TWO THREADS:
1. EMD22A-Literaturelist-Sp22-1.pdf (our EmDes EMD22A special lit list). We will have 3 literature seminars, 2 of which there are assigned readings that are listed in the linked document. The third seminar is going where you all, the students, bringing the literature to share in the seminar and thus the suggested readings list in the linked document can be a good starting spot for you all. All of this will be talked about and explained further once we start up EMD22A. Also, there are three books that will underpin the MethodLabs.
2. Design Studies (DS) is also a thread that runs across this course led by Mahmoud and with the DS teaching team (and is a course you have been part of already for 10 weeks by the time this course starts). Literature is naturally included in the DS and you have the whole term's plan since you are well on your way - even so here is a copy of the Literature folder from DS module in EMD21A:
You can find all the literature uploaded on the respective folder through this link:
MAIN LITERATURE LIST (DESIGN STUDIES AND STARTED DURING EMD21A)
Conceptual strand: Design Politics
– Anderson, K. (2015). Ethics, ecology, and the future: Art and design face the Anthropocene. Leonardo, 48(4), 338-347.
– Dilnot, C. (2016). Ethics in Design: 10 Questions. In D. Huppatz (Ed.). Design: Critical and Primary Sources: Social Interactions (pp. 230–245). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved November 2, 2021, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474282901.0025 (Links to an external site.)
– Highmore, B. (2008), The Design Culture Reader, London: Routledge (only introduction)
– Verbeek, P. P. (2008). Morality in design: Design ethics and the morality of technological artifacts. In Philosophy and design (pp. 91-103). Springer, Dordrecht.
– Willis, A. M. (2006). Ontological designing. Design philosophy papers, 4(2), 69-92.
– Winner, L. (1980). Do artifacts have politics?. Daedalus, 121-136.
Engaged strand: Design Anthropology
– Appadurai, A. (2013). “The Social Life of Design” in The Future as Cultural Fact. Essays on the Global Condition. London and New York: Verso.
– Mattern, S. (2020). Post-it note city. Places Journal. https://placesjournal.org/article/post-it-note-city/ (Links to an external site.)
– Murphy, K. M. (2016). Design and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 45, 433-449.
– Toni, R., & Wagner, I. "Ethics. Engagement, representation and politics-inaction" In J. Simonsen., & T. Robertson. (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design. (pp. 182-210). New York: Routledge.
– Tunstall, E. D. (2020). Decolonizing design innovation: Design anthropology, critical anthropology, and indigenous knowledge. In Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice (pp. 232-250). Routledge.
– XXX "Power, knowledge and Social Control in Participatory Development" in Cooke, B. & Kothari, U. (eds.) Participation: the new tyranny?. 2001, London: Zed books, pp. 139-152.
Relational strand: Design Ecologies
– Cachia, A., (2016). The Alterpodium : A Performative Design and Disability Intervention. Design and Culture 8 (?), 311–325. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2016.1218709
– Demos, T. J. (2016). Decolonizing Nature – Making the World Matter. In Decolonizing Nature. Sternberg Press, pp. 199-228.
– Irwin, T. (2015). "Transition design: A proposal for a new area of design practice, study, and research" Design and Culture, 7(2), 229-246.
– Kimmerer, Robin W. (2015). Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions. Read chapters: "Windigo Footprints" pp. 365-372; "Defeating Windigo" pp. 451-458; "Epilogue: Returning the Gift" pp. 459-464.
– Laurien, Thomas et al. (2021). An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape. In xxx (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism.
– Markussen, T. (2013). "The Disruptive Aesthetics of Design Activism: Enacting Design Between Art and Politics,” Design Issues, 29/1 (2013), pp. 38-50.
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