I’d like to go back to the subject of Erik’s example about material vs. tool vs. designer with the tool being a hammer, wood the material, and the carpenter the specific “designer.” Though it seems clear, remember we reached a point where the line begins to blur between material and tool; for example, a hammer…
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…
It is amazing that three classes was taught by one professor within one day. The best part is that we only discussed the theories in the first two classes, because after the second class, my head was already painful and turn into mess because of those questions and my hard thinking. After almost three hours…
I am going through my to-do list at breakneck speeds this morning and come to my reading for tomorrow, Manovich. I think, “hmm it should be here in my bag.” Nope, maybe in oncourse, nope. Where the heck is it, and will we still need to read it for tomorrow? Am I the only one…
Something in the reading got me to thinking about the old “form versus function” discourse, specifically in the context of digital design. As you may already know, all designed things have both a form and function component. The “form” of a thing can generally be described as how it looks or is shaped, while its…
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 was concentrating on the verbal ‘Edit’ used in jimmy’s article when reading it. Rather than to answer for his questions, I wanted to ask for myself that how much I/we have missed my/our originality or properties by editing them with other things. I guess that we have already performed digital handicraft based on cutting-edge technology…
The reason why I take this course began from my personal curiosity about a possibility to express something or an image as a universally accepted meaning to everybody in the world. I also know that all people think respectively with their own way, however, I have been observing some situations that people think and recognize…
I quite agree with what David has the mentioned about Technology adoption model. It reminds me of what I have learned in high school. Rooted from Marxism’s dialectical materialism theory, Chairman Mao pointed out in the Red Army begin the famous 25,000 kilometers the Long March, that the development of revolution is an combination processs…
It is all about the old question:”what is design?” Because it is across disciplines and cultures, nobody can really give a single definition about it, no matter how many bullet items were added into the definition. When we add more, we find more which needed to be added and revised. Just because its complexity, it…
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