NMD 200

Schedule 2022

GENERAL INFO I DESIGN FOR BODIES Week 1: Aug 30 BODIES & DESIGN PROCESSWeek 2: Sep 6 PHYSICAL HEALTH 1Week 3: Sep 13 PHYSICAL HEALTH 2Week 4: Sep 20 MENTAL HEALTH II DESIGN FOR SOCIETY Week 5: Sep 27 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT1Week 6: Oct 4 DIVERSITY & INCLUSIONWeek 7: Oct 13-14 FAMILIESWEEK 8: OCT 18 HUMANE TECHWeek 9: Oct 25 SOCIAL MEDIA & RELATIONSHIPS PORTFOLIO 1Week 10: Nov 1 PROPAGANDA & FAKE NEWSWeek 11: Nov 8 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY PROJECT2 III DESIGN FOR EARTH Week 12: Nov 15 ECONOMY/ECOLOGY Week 13: Nov 23 BREAKWeek 14: Nov 30 E-WASTEWeek 15: Dec 6 DIGITAL COMMONSWeek 16: Dec 13 PROJECT 3, PORTFOLIO 2, FINALRESOURCES

DESIGNING HUMANE TECH:  BODIES, CULTURE, EARTH

Design is how we build our world, from the most intimate effects on our bodies, to the consequences for our communities, to the reactions of our ecosystems.

How we design and why we design shapes our tools which in turn shapes who we are and who we can be.

Our tech revolution has happened so quickly that many ramifications of our most creative designs were untested on humans, on our communities and on our ecosystems.

But now many voices are calling for more holistic and healthy design principles to guide our work.  The questions, approaches and issues raised in this class will ensure that your creative designs capture your true values for the kind of world you want to create.

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I DESIGN FOR BODIES

In this section, we explore the impact of our tech desfign choices on the human body. Marshall McLuhan, a celebrated New Media thinker claims that humans experience technology as extensions of our bodies, and as one part may be augmented by a specific technology, another may get amputated.  Being aware of this trade-off is critical for good design and for humane technology.

BODIES & DESIGN PROCESS: Design From Patterns to Details (7)

WEEK 1

LAB

  • Introductions
  • Check class website login & Slack registration
  • WordPress.com free account
  • Practice Quiz 0-q0 in Lab
  • Begin Task 1 to post on class website & wordpress.com portfolio

DUE FRIDAY

DUE MONDAY

See Week 2 at left for other work due Monday, including watching The Social Dilemma and taking Quiz 2.

RESOURCES

  • How to design a logo (earn badge or just watch the video)

PHYSICAL HEALTH 1:  Observe & Interact (1)

I’m a tech exceptionalist because I believe that getting tech right matters and that getting it wrong will be an unmitigated catastrophe — and doing it right can give us the power to work together to save our civilization, our species, and our planet.
—Cory Doctorow

WEEK 2

  • McLuhan: Augmentation & Amputation
  • Augmentation (utopia):  Benefits of Digital Tech 2022 Padlet 2021 Padlet
  • Amputation (dystopia): Social Dilemma
  • Social Dilemma & physical health discussion in groups
  • Sinek video
  • Regeneration vs Downgrading?

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

  • Augmentation: Benefits of Digital Tech Padlet-get sources, images  VS.
  • Amputation: Social Dilemma list scenes/claims/questions for class discussion
  • Logos, Design Principles, Design Process
  • Task 2 questions?

DUE FRIDAY

DUE MONDAY

See Week 3 at left for other work due Monday, including reading articles and taking Quiz 3

PHYSICAL HEALTH 2: Use Small and Slow Solutions (9)

“the Internet has changed the way we make decisions. More and more, it is not individual humans who decide but an entangled, adaptive network of humans and machines.”  ( Brockman 21)

WEEK 3: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

  • View Antidote to Shallows; How to Build Your Focus
  • In small groups, brainstorm a list of changes you’d be interested in making to increase your brain skills: critical thinking, deeper, conceptual thinking, long term patience/focus, creative output (vs consumption), etc
  • Create a post “Lab 3-yourname” with your list, notes, ideas, quotes, sources as prep for Task 3

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

MENTAL HEALTH: Integrate Rather Than Segregate (8)

WEEK 4: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

DUE SUNDAY

RESOURCES

 

II DESIGN FOR SOCIETY

In the first section, we explored the issue that emerged when a Google design ethicist, Tristan Harris created a presentation entitled “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention” to address his concerns about the negative impact of the attention economy as a business/tech model. In this next section our goal is to research this question, look at some cultural consequences of our tech, and come up with some of your own related questions, and see if as a class we can begin to find some answers.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Creatively Use and Respond to Change(12)

WEEK 5: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

  • Work on Project 1: Web  Portal for Mental Health and Social Media
  • May use resources from previous assignments

DUE SUNDAY

RESOURCES

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: Use and Value Diversity (10)

WEEK 6: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

FAMILY VALUES: People Care (Ethic 2)

WEEK 7: Review before quiz

DUE FRI at midnight (because of fall break)

  • Quiz 8 (yes, it’s for Week 7)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

OPTIONAL : GAMING

WHAT IS HUMANE TECH? Apply Self-regulation & Accept Feedback (4)

The climate crisis requires a serious and sustained response from across civil society, and that includes the tech sector and technology professionals. ClimateAction.tech’s purpose is to empower technology professionals to play our part — to meet, discuss, learn and take climate action. Our vision is that everyone is working on the climate crisis at all levels, and together we are driving industry and society toward a sustainable future. —climate action.tech/about

WEEK 8

DUE MON (before class)

  • Quiz 7 (yes, it’s for week 8)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: Catch & Store Energy (2)

WEEK 9: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

PROPAGANDA & FAKE NEWS: Obtain a Yield (3)

WEEK 10: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

  • Work on Task 10 with Adobe Express Graphic

DUE FRIDAY

  • Task 10: Social Media Graphic @ News/Politics

RESOURCES

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY: Use Edges and Value the Marginal (11)

WEEK 11: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

III DESIGN FOR EARTH

In this third and final section, we will examine the impacts of digital technology on the earth’s ecosystems. Since all economies are really ecologies in the sense that they are ways to allocate the natural resources that sustain life, the economies that surround our tech are critical to its effects on our ecosystems–local and global.

ECONOMY/ECOLOGY: Earth Care (Ethic 1) & Fair Share (Ethic 3)

WEEK 12: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

RESOURCES

 

WEEK 13: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

NO LAB

TASK

WALL-E TO E-WASTE: Produce No Waste (6)

WEEK 14: Review before quiz

DUE MON (before class)

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

  • Update/revise your Portfolio–due Wed Dec 14
  • Project 3: Draft

RESOURCES

DIGITAL COMMONS: Use & Value Renewable Resources and Services (5)

WEEK 15

DUE MON (before class)

  • Quiz 15–NO QUIZ!!

LAB

DUE FRIDAY

  • Update/revise your Portfolio–due Wed Dec 14
  • Project 3: Revision

RESOURCES

PROJECT 3/PORTFOLIO 2/FINAL*

WEEK 16

  • Final Project 3 due Mon Dec 13
  • Portfolio 2 due Wed Dec 14
    This will include all of your 200 assignments, plus top projects from 2 other classes, including NMD 211 and one other NMD class
  • Final Exam *(if your quiz average is below 90)

 

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