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Interrogative Design Workshop

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2005

Topics

  • Class Introduction - Guest Presentation: Jimmy Chen
  • Introduction to VAP IEL (Dan Van Roekel)
  • Introduction to VAP Shop Facilities (Charlie Mathis)
  • Individual Roundtable Presentations/Sketches: Project 1
  • Guest Presentations: Tim Anderson and Elliot Felix
  • Individually Scheduled Meetings with Prof.
  • Guest Presentation: Azra Aksamija
  • Discussion (Thoreau, Benjamin, Critical Arts Ensemble, Public Enemy, King)
  • Discussion (Deleuze and Guattari)
  • Mid-term
  • Mid-term (cont.)
  • Discussion (Levinas, Benjamin, Deutsche)
  • Discussion (Smith, De Carlo, Arendt, Castells)
  • Guest Presentation
  • N55 Presentation
  • N55 Presentation (cont.)
  • Discussion (Bakunin, West)
  • Discussion (Winnicott, Situationists, Careri)
  • Production / Individual Meetings with Prof.
  • Production / Individual Meetings with Prof. (cont.)
  • Final

Readings

  • Papanek, Victor. Design for the real world: human ecology and social change . Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1985. ISBN: 0897331532.
    Listed reading
  • Mouffe, Chantal. “Which Democracy in a post-political age?” The Dark Markets: Infopolitics, electronic media and democracy in times of crisis. lecture series, Public netbase / t0, Wein, October 5, 2002. Video documentation: ( RAM ) (31/03/2003). ↗
    Listed reading
  • N55: 3 selections from “Manual for N55.” In N55 Book . Odder, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2003. ISBN: 8791409055. ( PDF - 8.9 MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Kristeva, Julia. Strangers to Ourselves . New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1991, chapter 1 and final 2 chapters. ISBN: 0231071574.
    Listed reading
  • Herman, Judith. “Ethics of the Self and Ethics of the Other.” In Trauma and Recovery . London, UK: Pandora, 2001. ISBN: 0863584306.
    Listed reading
  • Brecht, Bertold. Brecht on Theater: the Development of an Aesthetic . New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1978. ISBN: 0809005425.
    Listed reading
  • Bakhtin, M. M. “Carnival Ambivalence: Laughter, Praise and Abuse” and “The Banquet, the Body and the Underworld.” In The Bakhtin Reader . Edited by Pam Morris. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0340592672.
    Listed reading
  • Critical Arts Ensemble. Electronic Civil Disobedience . Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1995. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Benjamin, Walter. “Critique of Violence.” In Selected Writings Vol. 1: 1913-1926 . Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1996. ISBN: 0674945859.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Discussion (Thoreau, Benjamin, Critical Arts Ensemble, Public Enemy, King) · READINGS: Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. Nomadology . New York, NY: Semiotext(e), 1986. ISBN: 0936756098.
    Reading assignment
  • Smith, Neil. “From Gentrification to the Revanchist City.” In The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City . New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 041513255X.
    Listed reading
  • Castells, Manuel. “Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism.” Chapter 3 in The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN: 0631219331.
    Listed reading
  • Levinas, Emanuel. “Cities of Refuge.” In Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures . London, UK: Athlone Press, 1994. ISBN: 0485114305.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780262041584. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Fuller, Buckminster. Utopia or Oblivion . New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1969. ISBN: 0553028839.
    Listed reading
  • Bakunin, Michael. God and the State . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1970. ISBN: 048622483X.
    Listed reading
  • West, Cornel. American Evasion of Philosophy . Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN: 0299119645.
    Listed reading
  • Careri, Francesco (Stalker). Walkscapes: Walking as an aesthetic practice . Barcelona, Spain: Gili, 2002. ISBN: 8425218411.
    Listed reading
  • Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality . New York, NY: Tavistock Publications, 1980. ISBN: 0422783102.
    Listed reading
  • Jacques Tati [FILM]: Mon Oncle.
    Listed reading
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