Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Lecture 13th May
Imperil Peli and the Architecture of Power:
-Imperial and architectural context:
=Ancient seat of empires
=Jewl of the crown
=Indian Traditions
=British Traditions
-Imperial and archittectural Practice:
=Occitsenialism vs orientalism
=symbolism
-Imperial and architectural Practice.
=Somthing old, somthing new, somthing borrowed, somthing askew?
=Sir Edwin Lutyens - The visroys pallace
=Sir Herbert Baker - Govt. Secretariat
=Monument or mausoleum?
=Legacies
India has a very traditional look at architecture and culture.
much of indian arch is religion based
-Muslum
-chrstian
-Budhust
Parliment was deliberatly left out of the symmetry of power, "an after thought".
-Imperial and architectural context:
=Ancient seat of empires
=Jewl of the crown
=Indian Traditions
=British Traditions
-Imperial and archittectural Practice:
=Occitsenialism vs orientalism
=symbolism
-Imperial and architectural Practice.
=Somthing old, somthing new, somthing borrowed, somthing askew?
=Sir Edwin Lutyens - The visroys pallace
=Sir Herbert Baker - Govt. Secretariat
=Monument or mausoleum?
=Legacies
India has a very traditional look at architecture and culture.
much of indian arch is religion based
-Muslum
-chrstian
-Budhust
Parliment was deliberatly left out of the symmetry of power, "an after thought".
seminar 9th May
Core Reading, Towards user design? on the shift from object to user as the subject of design...
Patriucia argues that "form follows function" is not important, or not as important as user experience.
I dssagree, i think that the form of the object directly links to its function, if it was not that shape it wouldnt function, the function is determined and a form is developed to suit it, not the other way around. I think that designing a form and user experience and then a function for it is designing backwards. when we design we have a spicific function im mind that we are designing for.
Patricia also Talked about how Gorillas are designers. That they are as smart as designers when they select sticks to eat with.
Design as Comunication?
-Also determinedby user experience. Show four different people the same thing and each person will react to that thing differently.
Design as enjoyable?
-It cant be enjoyable unless it has been tested on the market.
Patriucia argues that "form follows function" is not important, or not as important as user experience.
I dssagree, i think that the form of the object directly links to its function, if it was not that shape it wouldnt function, the function is determined and a form is developed to suit it, not the other way around. I think that designing a form and user experience and then a function for it is designing backwards. when we design we have a spicific function im mind that we are designing for.
Patricia also Talked about how Gorillas are designers. That they are as smart as designers when they select sticks to eat with.
Design as Comunication?
-Also determinedby user experience. Show four different people the same thing and each person will react to that thing differently.
Design as enjoyable?
-It cant be enjoyable unless it has been tested on the market.
Lecture 29th Of April
Ecology Of The Artificial.
Green Design
Sastainable Design
Economy Design
Ecologocally Sustaniable Design
the ecosphere, a limited enviroment.
The Atmosphere {air}
The Biosphere {living}
The Hydrosphere {water}
The Lithosphere {Rocks}
Redistribution of materials
- More from the lithosphere rather than the biosphere.
invisable materials
-Production Waste
-Stock pile
-Contacts
-Escape
Ethics is an add on to Products
green design is an add on to existing design.
Green Design
Sastainable Design
Economy Design
Ecologocally Sustaniable Design
the ecosphere, a limited enviroment.
The Atmosphere {air}
The Biosphere {living}
The Hydrosphere {water}
The Lithosphere {Rocks}
Redistribution of materials
- More from the lithosphere rather than the biosphere.
invisable materials
-Production Waste
-Stock pile
-Contacts
-Escape
Ethics is an add on to Products
green design is an add on to existing design.
Lecture 6th of May
Philosophy Of The Artificial.
6th centuary Phill - Ancient Greek/Roman.
1100AD -1400AD - Mid Phill, Catholic.
11th Centuary - Modern Phill.
Modern Philosophy is western triditions.
Theory/religion/science
1. Pistimology- Logic, Truth, Knowledge.
2. Onthology- Exsistance, Being.
3. Ethics- How we relate to others.
4. Asthetics- Beauty and Art
5. Mind/Psychology.
5. Mind/Psychology.
6. Natural- Physics, Chemestry, Biology.
When you design you bring a certain world with you...
what is design Knowledge???
-It is a very new subject. only been around for about 40 years in universitys.
-Yet it uses things that have been around for thousands of years such as science, logic and art.
"the enlightenment"
Seperation between science, religin, philosophy.
people start to think for themselves.
Quote by martain Jay- The Downward Eye.
"What counts as valid research has traadionally been occular"
Rene Descartes (1596-1950)
"I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am"
so i doubt what i see as it may be different to others.
For descartes- The mind is where everything begins, the mind comes first, the body second.
the mind sees a an image of the world
the most truthful thing you can see with your mind is a clear and distinct idea.
"It is the mind that is seeing, not the body" (Rene Descarts)
Doubt and Presence are always together.
This is not PIPE.
Design comes from
-love and darkness
-Blindness
-The blind feeling around with an instrument.
Narcissus
- Blind Look
_Story of the man that falls in love with his reflection and he dies becaues he can't take his eyes off his reflection.
Phenomenology:
Being in the world
Readiness to hand
Mediators
Embodiment Relations
Interpretive Relations
Background Relations
"In the blackness is where painting and art comes from"
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
seminar 11th of april 2008
Social dimensions of werable computers:
Ana Viesu
Early computting is still in the early research stages and there is not much research into its social dimensions.
there is a lot of debate over privacy and controll over the werable computer...
Ana Viesu
Early computting is still in the early research stages and there is not much research into its social dimensions.
there is a lot of debate over privacy and controll over the werable computer...
lecture 8th April 2008
What is Design?
Comming up with solutions for problems.
Problem Solving
applied creativity
design as learning
design as evolution
design as social process/interaction
good designers are good negociators...
design as a game or challenge.
design as solving wicked/messy problems
design as mastery of expertiese
A Design problem is called a wicked problem because it has no rules/structure like a game of chess does.
10 Charistics of wicked problems:
1 No definative formulation.
2 have no stopping rule.
3 solutions are not true or false but better or worse.
4 no immediate and no ultimate test or solution.
5 no opportunity to learn by trial and error, every attempt counts.
6 there is no well described set of premissis that may be incorporated.
7 each is unique.
8 can be considered to be a symptom of another problem.
9 can be explaned in numerous ways. explination determines nature of problems resolution.
10 Planner has no right to be wrong.
How not to design...
-always cling to the first idea.
-jump to the details immediatly
-Solve one aspect first.
-ignor an aspect of the design.
-don't wait for inspiration
-Ignor tests that suggest the design might not work
ETC
what is form?
-scientific realism
the world isgoverned by natural laws, according to which the objects of scientific study arenatural kinds...
Comming up with solutions for problems.
Problem Solving
applied creativity
design as learning
design as evolution
design as social process/interaction
good designers are good negociators...
design as a game or challenge.
design as solving wicked/messy problems
design as mastery of expertiese
A Design problem is called a wicked problem because it has no rules/structure like a game of chess does.
10 Charistics of wicked problems:
1 No definative formulation.
2 have no stopping rule.
3 solutions are not true or false but better or worse.
4 no immediate and no ultimate test or solution.
5 no opportunity to learn by trial and error, every attempt counts.
6 there is no well described set of premissis that may be incorporated.
7 each is unique.
8 can be considered to be a symptom of another problem.
9 can be explaned in numerous ways. explination determines nature of problems resolution.
10 Planner has no right to be wrong.
How not to design...
-always cling to the first idea.
-jump to the details immediatly
-Solve one aspect first.
-ignor an aspect of the design.
-don't wait for inspiration
-Ignor tests that suggest the design might not work
ETC
what is form?
-scientific realism
the world isgoverned by natural laws, according to which the objects of scientific study arenatural kinds...
Lecture 4th April 2008
Embodied interaction:
Werable Technology
Mobile Media
Interactive Installation
telematics
Biometric devices,
Health,
Safety,
Fashon,
Smart Fabrics,
Entertainment,
High-Tech Jewlery
Werable tech
-Printed Organisims
-Clothes that when worn the print appears and when taken off it goes back to plain.
Steve Mann
-werable computer started in 1980 was big and clunky, now just looks like a pair of sunglasses.
a werable comp must
-be worn not carried
-be user controlled
- Operatie in realtime.
Benoit Macbery- Die Audio Grupre
-audio jackets 1982
-audio balarinas 1989
-audio peacocks 2003
Interactive instalation:
joachim Sauter [art+com]
-"famous grouse experience" 2002
-media stage and costume design 2002
Dave Rokeby
-Very Nervous System (1986-1990)
Paul Garrin/David Rokeby
-border Patroll 1994-1996
Werable Technology
Mobile Media
Interactive Installation
telematics
Biometric devices,
Health,
Safety,
Fashon,
Smart Fabrics,
Entertainment,
High-Tech Jewlery
Werable tech
-Printed Organisims
-Clothes that when worn the print appears and when taken off it goes back to plain.
Steve Mann
-werable computer started in 1980 was big and clunky, now just looks like a pair of sunglasses.
a werable comp must
-be worn not carried
-be user controlled
- Operatie in realtime.
Benoit Macbery- Die Audio Grupre
-audio jackets 1982
-audio balarinas 1989
-audio peacocks 2003
Interactive instalation:
joachim Sauter [art+com]
-"famous grouse experience" 2002
-media stage and costume design 2002
Dave Rokeby
-Very Nervous System (1986-1990)
Paul Garrin/David Rokeby
-border Patroll 1994-1996
Lecture 18/3/08
Post modernism:
"postmodernity is everwherre, from litrature,design and philosophy, to MTV ice cream and underware."
Postmodernity: The state or ideology of being post modern.
postmodernism: The association of being post modern.
Value systems provide societal, cultural and economicency.
Postmodernism is inovative and inveitave.
levitton- 17000 identical houses, in big rows back to back.
-nature supressed
-women supressed
NZ women vote in 1893
American women vote 1903, ten years afrer New Zealand women.
Richard Hamilton: Just what is it that makes today's houses so different, so appealing...
The hippy movement 1960's.
LSD used to design metalic and colourful designs/patterns.
People stopped needing and started wanting.
Kennedy commited to the space race. get to the moon before the sovit union.
Design followed the moon landing.
Ettore Sottass: father of postmodernism design.
"postmodernity is everwherre, from litrature,design and philosophy, to MTV ice cream and underware."
Postmodernity: The state or ideology of being post modern.
postmodernism: The association of being post modern.
Value systems provide societal, cultural and economicency.
Postmodernism is inovative and inveitave.
levitton- 17000 identical houses, in big rows back to back.
-nature supressed
-women supressed
NZ women vote in 1893
American women vote 1903, ten years afrer New Zealand women.
Richard Hamilton: Just what is it that makes today's houses so different, so appealing...
The hippy movement 1960's.
LSD used to design metalic and colourful designs/patterns.
People stopped needing and started wanting.
Kennedy commited to the space race. get to the moon before the sovit union.
Design followed the moon landing.
Ettore Sottass: father of postmodernism design.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1997.460.1ab.jpg
Postmodernism dosent really say alot about its architecture.
Roland Barthes.
Relationship of a sign
Signified and Signifier
Meaning depends on
-code or association
-Differences matter, not context.
core reading 1 notes.
The Revival of Handycraft.
by William Moris- 1888
-He claims that somthing is beautiful if there is evidence of work in the object.
-He says that the user is not consulted in the design of the product.
-People are making sub par products and pushing them on the market, which forces people to buy as there is no other alternative.
-We are forced to choose from what they sell.
by William Moris- 1888
-He claims that somthing is beautiful if there is evidence of work in the object.
-He says that the user is not consulted in the design of the product.
-People are making sub par products and pushing them on the market, which forces people to buy as there is no other alternative.
-We are forced to choose from what they sell.
Assigned Reading
Open Source Software.
-Open source is a program thatis open to development by anyone with a computer on the condition that that person posts the changes back on the internet under the same conditions as the original code.
for example.
Linux: is an open source operating system developed originally by Linus Tovlard.
Open Office: is a software package that is similar to microsoft word, but is open for development from anyone.
users can change and adapt anything and everything in these two programs so that they run smoother or do an aplication that is needed.
Definition: Any computer software that is distributed underlicence which allows users to alter the source code.
the source code is the human readable version of a computer program, it is then translated into binary for the computer to read.
Geoff Mulgan, Tom Steinberg and Omar Salem argue that the term open source is being incorrectly used in todays society and thaat new terms need to be adapted along the same rules as open source software.
eg.
open knowledge: such as wikipedia.
open team working: groups of people working together toward a common goal.
open conversation: large online debates that can accodomidate more people.
open media. music, audio, images and video.
bioscience is also becomming more open with its research. The Tropical Disease Institute (TDI) is a full open source research centre. all of its research is published online for people to critique and improve on.
Benifits of open source.
- Work is submitted and then critiqued by peers. It is adapted anchanged/modified.
- The reviewing is continued, its not just a one off thing.
- There is a wide range of both professionals and amatures reviewing the work.
- It allows others to learn and build skills in programming.
- It can improve your C.V. and create job opportunities with other companies.
Drawbacks of open source.
-Minorities often take over the aplications and turn them into somthing they wern't intended to be, so many projects still have some sort of central controll.
-There is little or no funding for development in opensource as it is giveen away when it is published.
7 Key Principals of open source...
-Transperency: the source code must be freehly avaliable. both the source and the binary.
-Non-appropriation: the source cannot be appropriated to a single person or select group.
-Return of derivatives: all alterations must be made avaliable to the public on the same basis as the original code.
-non-discrimination: access to the code is on an equal basis for everyone.
-open input: everyone should be able to alter the source code as they wish.
-credit: Those that have contributed must be acknowledged.
-non-revocability: Licences cannnot be revoked after publication. (although individuals can have there licence revoked if they break licence terms.)
-Open source is a program thatis open to development by anyone with a computer on the condition that that person posts the changes back on the internet under the same conditions as the original code.
for example.
Linux: is an open source operating system developed originally by Linus Tovlard.
Open Office: is a software package that is similar to microsoft word, but is open for development from anyone.
users can change and adapt anything and everything in these two programs so that they run smoother or do an aplication that is needed.
Definition: Any computer software that is distributed underlicence which allows users to alter the source code.
the source code is the human readable version of a computer program, it is then translated into binary for the computer to read.
Geoff Mulgan, Tom Steinberg and Omar Salem argue that the term open source is being incorrectly used in todays society and thaat new terms need to be adapted along the same rules as open source software.
eg.
open knowledge: such as wikipedia.
open team working: groups of people working together toward a common goal.
open conversation: large online debates that can accodomidate more people.
open media. music, audio, images and video.
bioscience is also becomming more open with its research. The Tropical Disease Institute (TDI) is a full open source research centre. all of its research is published online for people to critique and improve on.
Benifits of open source.
- Work is submitted and then critiqued by peers. It is adapted anchanged/modified.
- The reviewing is continued, its not just a one off thing.
- There is a wide range of both professionals and amatures reviewing the work.
- It allows others to learn and build skills in programming.
- It can improve your C.V. and create job opportunities with other companies.
Drawbacks of open source.
-Minorities often take over the aplications and turn them into somthing they wern't intended to be, so many projects still have some sort of central controll.
-There is little or no funding for development in opensource as it is giveen away when it is published.
7 Key Principals of open source...
-Transperency: the source code must be freehly avaliable. both the source and the binary.
-Non-appropriation: the source cannot be appropriated to a single person or select group.
-Return of derivatives: all alterations must be made avaliable to the public on the same basis as the original code.
-non-discrimination: access to the code is on an equal basis for everyone.
-open input: everyone should be able to alter the source code as they wish.
-credit: Those that have contributed must be acknowledged.
-non-revocability: Licences cannnot be revoked after publication. (although individuals can have there licence revoked if they break licence terms.)
lecture 4/3/2008
Lecture Notes,
Avery index to arch periodicals and the DAAI- Design and applied arts index, are the databases good for my research.
Artstor- Images
Academic one file These therre are good general data bases
Proquest
"research is never perfect"
The refrain...
-start early
-read and write
-polish (edit)
-Get Advice
Your Thesis!
-topic, your subject
-thesis, my view
questions...
what does this term mean?
how do i use this term?
so what?
Key Points!
Write carefully!
build good sentences in clear paragraphs,
work toward an overall structure.
Avery index to arch periodicals and the DAAI- Design and applied arts index, are the databases good for my research.
Artstor- Images
Academic one file These therre are good general data bases
Proquest
"research is never perfect"
The refrain...
-start early
-read and write
-polish (edit)
-Get Advice
Your Thesis!
-topic, your subject
-thesis, my view
questions...
what does this term mean?
how do i use this term?
so what?
Key Points!
Write carefully!
build good sentences in clear paragraphs,
work toward an overall structure.
History proposal
History 271: essay proposal
I was reading my assigned reading and actually found it quite interesting, so I thought I would like to research it some more and write my thesis on open source software. The website "http://www.opensource.org/" defines open source as,"Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in."So basically software that is distributed on the internet for free that has an available source code. This means that the software can be altered and changed to suit a person’s need or to make it run smoother etc, on the condition that the redeveloped software is made available on the internet for other users.Linus Torvalds developed the operating system Linux and then shocked the computer world by making the source code available for download and encouraged internet users to download it and tweak and modify it to make it a smoother running user friendly operating system.In my essay I would like to look at open source software and how it is important in the future of computer software. I want to explore and research how having the source code open can allow better developed software and a more user friendly software/operating system. I will look at IBM and why it is supporting open source development as well as Microsoft/Mac and why they are opposed to the idea.Resources I have found include:-Geoff Mulgan, Tom Steinberg and Omar Salem’s Wide Open: Open Source Methods and Their Future Potential. 2005-Perspectives on free and open source software. Edited by Joseph feller-Free/open source software development. Edited by Stefan Kock.-www.sourceforge.net is a big contributor to the open source software world and i may contact them with some questions about why they think open source is important and why they are supporting its distribution.Further research into design and computer periodicals will be essential as that is where a lot of the recent open source information will be found as open source is a fairly new idea. I think a lot of my research will be done through periodicals and recent journals.
I was reading my assigned reading and actually found it quite interesting, so I thought I would like to research it some more and write my thesis on open source software. The website "http://www.opensource.org/" defines open source as,"Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in."So basically software that is distributed on the internet for free that has an available source code. This means that the software can be altered and changed to suit a person’s need or to make it run smoother etc, on the condition that the redeveloped software is made available on the internet for other users.Linus Torvalds developed the operating system Linux and then shocked the computer world by making the source code available for download and encouraged internet users to download it and tweak and modify it to make it a smoother running user friendly operating system.In my essay I would like to look at open source software and how it is important in the future of computer software. I want to explore and research how having the source code open can allow better developed software and a more user friendly software/operating system. I will look at IBM and why it is supporting open source development as well as Microsoft/Mac and why they are opposed to the idea.Resources I have found include:-Geoff Mulgan, Tom Steinberg and Omar Salem’s Wide Open: Open Source Methods and Their Future Potential. 2005-Perspectives on free and open source software. Edited by Joseph feller-Free/open source software development. Edited by Stefan Kock.-www.sourceforge.net is a big contributor to the open source software world and i may contact them with some questions about why they think open source is important and why they are supporting its distribution.Further research into design and computer periodicals will be essential as that is where a lot of the recent open source information will be found as open source is a fairly new idea. I think a lot of my research will be done through periodicals and recent journals.
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