Schedule
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9/4
WK 1
3:20 Welcome (Chris & Pablo)
Introduction to instructors, students, syllabus, course guidelines (Chris)
3:40 Intro to Critical Design, Participatory & Experiential Futures (Chris)
3:55 - 4:10 "COP context introduction, case studies, anecdotes and conference structure” (Pablo, Ariana)
4:10 Break
4:20 - 4:45 “Opportunities for designed interventions at COP: What are we trying to accomplish?” (Pablo, Ariana)
4:45 Speculative sprint Prototyping session (Chris)
5:30 Share Out & Discussion
5:50 End
HW: Readings
Twilley, Nicola - The Taste of Change
Candy, Stuart - The Futures of Everyday Life p. 216-257
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9/11
WK 2
3:20 Lecture: design interventions, guidelines, examples, process (gather information, synthesize, prototype, communicate and iterate) discussion
3:50 Introduction to food systems with Fabio Parasecoli
4:15 break
4:20 Hands on design interventions activity. Pick a food object. List stakeholders in bringing that object to the consumer. Draw a map of the food system centered on the food object. Identify sites of potential intervention in the map you drew. Sketch an intervention for that site.
5:20 Discussion
HW: Pick a climate challenge topic and research it in detail
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9/18
WK 3
(Chris & Karolina) Research and co-creative strategies 3:20:
Food systems: production, distribution
Conference logistics as paratext (hotels, meals, catered snacks, transportation, swag bags, jetlag, wifi / international phone plans, announcements/schedules, language)Social practice of climate negotiations.
Preaching to the choir? Defining the aim of engagement
Facilitation, documentation, re-contextualization, dissemination. Creating engagement outside of the reflective context of workshops, museums, conferences, etc. Turning these weird experiences that ‘provoke a conversation’ to an actual conversation - substantive exchange that grounds information and develops insights.
Discussion
4:10 Break
4:20 Hands on work on designing facilitation and documentation
5:00 Presentation, discussion
HW:Design an intervention for the COP24 context and create a prototype to present in class.Who is the audience? What is the aim of engagement? What is the context of the experience? What form/material supports/creates the experience? How is it facilitated? How is it documented and disseminated?
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9/25
WK 4
(Chris & Karolina) + guest critic Climate Week September 24 — Digestive Cycles Eating in NYC / Foodwastes
DUE: INTERVENTION DESIGN (present a proposal and prototype in class) Groups present intervention designs, class feedback HW: Iterate on intervention design incorporating feedback, build second prototype
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10/2
WK 5
(Karolina) 3:20 Session on topic responding to student designs 4:10 Break
4:20 Hands on activity, individual feedback on second prototype
HW: Iterate on intervention design incorporating feedbackConsistent graphic design applied to each intervention
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10/16
WK 6
(Karolina & Pablo) Review, Design Iteration, Refinement 3:20 Worksession, refinement, individual feedback
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10/23
WK 7
Review and Crits (Chris & Karolina + someone from Red Cross) FINAL PRESENTATIONS