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Topic 3: Design and Technology cont'd.

Assignment Due November 12:
Watch Library of Congress Series on the Digital Future, lectures 1 and 4: 1. David Weinberger and 4. Brian Cantwell. Discussion leaders will be Silas and Teira.

Watch videos on RealPlayer:

1. David Weinberger, former senior Internet adviser to the Howard Dean presidential campaign, discusses how weblogs work and their value in gathering knowledge. (November 15, 2004)

4. Brian Cantwell Smith, dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, defines his concept of "digitality" and discusses its impact on our notions of technology and the world around us. (January 31, 2005)


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Theory I F09 Course Description

  • This course will offer (more or less) a survey representing a spectrum of design theory’s influential texts. These represent the evolving theoretical ideas produced through modernity in varying contexts that have motivated works of graphic design, typography, and book design. The readings beginning in the mid-nineteenth century at the height of the industrial revolution when graphic design as an autonomous field develops and continue into the early 21st century information age. Collectively these texts represent a leap-frogging between “tradition” and “modernity,” finally arriving at post-modernism and the debates and challenges to all previous models.

    As a class we’ll consider these texts as representing the changing values of design in order to inspire and consider our own context in the shaping of our disciplines and as motivation for our work.

    Learning Goals · Learning to read and engage with theoretical writing and theoretical ideas
    · Develop an understanding of theoretical writing
    · Gain understanding of the theoretical concepts that have driven modern design
    · Develop basic thinking skills to generate personal credos and theories
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