Unit 1: The New Literacies
This unit explores the changing shape of literacy in the digital age — how reading and writing, along with architecture — are changing in response to digital technologies
Clive Thompson, “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy”
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompsonNicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/googleJamais Cascio, “Get Smarter”
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligencePaul Goldberger, “Digital Dreams: What if Howard Roark had used a
Mac?”
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/03/12/010312crsk_goldb_sky_C
Unit 2: Ubiquitous Architecture, Ubiquitous Writing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous Texts
This unit explores the concept of ubiquity as it relates to architecture and writing. The idea is that advances in computing facilitate the production of new kinds of texts and new kinds of architectures. We’ll think about vernacular writing and vernacular architecture here
Clay Spinuzzi, “’Have you ever noticed how many, many people are
writing and just how much writing there is in the world?’”
http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2009/08/have-you-ever-noticed-how-many-many.html
Street Texts
http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2009/06/street-texts.htmlMillie Davis, “Writing is Everywhere”
http://ncteinbox.blogspot.com/2009/08/writing-everywhere.htmlThe Living, “River Glow: What if Architecture produced its own
energy?”
http://www.thelivingnewyork.com/rg.htmGilles Deleuze, “The Fold” (PDF)
Dan Hill, “The Street as Platform”
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/02/the-street-as-p.html
Unit 3: Interactive Environments
This is a unit about interactivity in architecture, writing, and learning.
The Living, “Living Glass: What if Architecture responded to you?”
http://www.thelivingnewyork.com/lg.htmdanah boyd, “Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of
Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life”
http://www.danah.org/papers/WhyYouthHeart.pdfShirley Dugdale , “Space Strategies for the New Learning
Landscape”
http://is.gd/340fnAnya Kamenetz, “How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American
Higher Education”
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.htmlSeoul Digital Media City
Project Site
http://dmc.seoul.go.kr/english/jsp/about/overview.jsp
“Up and Down the Avenue, 21st Century Style”
http://sap.mit.edu/resources/portfolio/seoul/“Towards the Sentient City” Exhibit
http://www.sentientcity.net/splash/
Unit 4: Intimacies
This unit explores the ways in which social networks have created new types of “ambient intimacies” that are now finding their way into architectural theories
Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.htmlC.J. Pascoe, “Intimacy” (from Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking
Out: Living and Learning with New Media)
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/book-intimacyPenelope Green, “Yours for the Peeping”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/weekinreview/04green.htmlChristopher Allen, “Intimacy Gradient and Other Lessons from
Architecture”
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/08/intimacy_gradie.htmlJared Stein, “Defining ‘Creepy Treehouses’”
http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/
Unit 5: Open Sources
This unit explores the open-source movement in digital technology and architecture
Cameron Sinclair, “Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture”
http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_sinclair_on_open_source_architecture.htmlThe Living, “Better, Cheaper, Faster: What if good architecture and
bottom-line development were the same thing?”
http://www.thelivingnewyork.com/bcf/bcf02.htmAlex Couros, “Edupunk, Meaning, Identity”
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/859Jim Groom, “Open By Design”
http://openbydesign.wpmued.org/“Fast, Cheap and Out of Control”
Film shown in class
Theoretical Interludes (PDFs will be distributed)
A little theory never hurt anyone.
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Gilles Deleuze, “The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque “
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “Rhizome” (from A Thousand Plateaus)
Michel Foucault, “Heterotopias”
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Mini-Unit: Visibility
This unit forms the basis of an recurring writing assignment based on Michael David Murphy’s “unphotographable” website.
Unphotographable
http://www.unphotographable.com/
