Prewriting Writing is hard. What ends up on the page isn’t like a train of thought. The synthesis is more elaborate and consists many, very different pieces. What is Prewriting? A written form of ideation (process of coming up with ideas) Think of it as a form of sketching Give your left brain a break…
I’m going to lay claim to the Stolterman and Manovich question with some quick answers that I hope to flesh out over the course of the semester! Stolterman comes from a phenomenological tradition. How do I know this? First, we asked him. Second, a great example comes to mind from his book Design Way in…
Relation of phenomenology to hermeneutics. For the purposes of this class, you can confuse them. Hermeneutics originally started as a exercise in biblical exegesis (very accurate reading, getting it right). Philology emerged as a practice of linguistic study, history of linguistics, etc. Hermeneutics came about as a strategy to “closely read” the Bible in order…
Course Blog – Open or Closed? Either way there will be moderation of comments from outside the course. Perform phenomenological and structural analysis of a series of related fashion magazine ads: at least 3 consecutive photos from a single company. The reason we went with these instead of single ads is that the series helps…
Inspired by Erik Stolterman’s guest lecture, many bloggers this week have discussed that interaction design concerns itself with the “material without qualities.” As mentioned in lecture, all designers work with materials and the qualities of those materials have a profound effect on the product. Many have commented on the growing struggle within the field to…
Manovich – Interaction Culture Manovich draws heavily from Russian literary theory and Marxism. A focus on modes of production and consumption. “Digital materialism … principles of computer hardware and software and the operations involved in creating cultural objects on a computer to uncover a new cultural logic at work.” (p.7) [means of production] However, he…
Liveblog for the 9-4-2007 lecture. No promises that I’ll come back and clean this up, but please comment and continue with the lecture discussions! Interaction design concerns itself with “the material without qualities.”For all design disciplines, the notion of design material is critical. In many cases, we describe design professions in regards to the materials…
I noticed the WTF category. I believe this qualifies. Snake regurgitates Hippo. Seriously, WTF?
Is there any interest out there in taking up the practice of liveblogging the course lectures? Entering the lecture material into the blogstream will give us an easy method for continuing course discussions as well as opportunity to reflect on lectures while increasing the size of our course related blogosphere. Given the number of people…
As we all know, the art of movie trailers (mongtage) is very well understood. I’m a big fan of “recut” trailers which attempt to create entirely new movies out of existing films. For example, check out the original Office Space trailer. Now, check out the trailer for the “horror thriller” version. Finally, check out the…
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