Social Architectures Syllabus
Notes:
* Buckminster Fuller, that'd be a great reading
Download Class Calendar:
spring_planner_socialarc.pdf
Week One:
Prior to the first week of class, students should read
"Campus Making in America" a great article about university architecture
http://www.mparchitects.com/articles/campusmaking.html
"Charter of the New Urbanism" a Manifesto by the New Urbanists
http://cnu.org/sites/files/charter_english.pdf
Handouts
Structure of Class
Material Fee
Notebooks
Assign Secretary
Lecture: April 4, 2-5p
Science-Art Practice:
Ethnography, Action Research, and Relational Aesthetics.
New Games Video. Social Games. Materials and Methods for projects and documentation. Resource Review.
Assigned Reading: Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Cognition in the Wild
Film: April 4th 5-7p
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Week Two:
Lecture: April 11, 2-5p
New Urbanism
Public Spaces: Pictoral history of great public spaces
Campus Architecture. Informal Education. Social Movement. Ethnographic method
Tour of Campus from 3-5p
Students bring notebooks, digital cameras, tape recorders.
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces--choose one and read-- they are short and great!
Triangulation.pdfSitting Space.pdfThe Life of Plazas.pdf
Food.pdf Introduction.pdf
This is a history of student conflict with the UCSD administration
Political History of UCSD.pdf
Film: Man with a Movie Camera
April 12 5-7p
Week Three:
Class will be run entirely by students, but role will still be taken, so be sure to pre-arrange any absences or this will count against you. This class will feature student presentations, structured project development activities, and proposal development.
Projects and Partners are to be FINALIZED in this class.
I will make some times available for you to meet with me on the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th.
The reading for this week is a very accessible text about emergence and self-organizing behavior. A short quiz will be given to ensure that you have done the reading.
For the following week, have your optional campus plan ready to submit to Sue Peerson. If you want to have an impact on campus, this is the best way to do it. 1-2 pages. Provide a summary at the beginning, a statement of need, and a description of what you propose and how to go about doing it. This will make up for a class absence.
Myth of the Ant Queen.pdf
Assigned Readings: Myth of the Ant Queen
Week Four:
Submit Proposals, Including Sketches, Budget, Methodology, and Photos of the Space.
Lecture: April 25, 2-5p
Ethics of Engagement, Media as Architecture, Music as Liquid Architectures.
Game of Life, Cellular Automata, Modeling People
Informal Learning, Fun,
Aesthetics of Complexity. Social Aesthetics. Social Organism/Super Organism.
Examples: NOW the online project
Film: Fast Cheap and Out of Control
April 26, 5-7p
Week Five:
Lecture: May 2, 2-5p
Social Media
Media as Architecture
Myspace Lecture
Attentional Capital
Mimetics and Reciprocity
Social Networks are information networks
Egalitarian Art
Scape. Anonymity. Architectures is Politics. Self Representation.
Film: Yanomamo, Nanuck of the North... another ethnographic film. Or Avante Garde, like Man Ray.
Assigned Readings:
Mcluhan's "The Medium is the Massage"
The Medium is the Massage.pdf
Week Six
Submit Finished Proposal
May 9
New Games
Documentation Techniques
Media as Architecture, Architecture as Media
Film:
May 10
Readings: Relational Aesthetics
Week Seven
Lecture: May 16
Shivani
Utopias. Evolution
Harmony. Peace. Love. Beauty.
Mirror Neurons
Music Cognition
Informational Harmony. Empathy vs Abstraction. Thermodynamics, Entropy.
.Show Disney's Epcot during class.
Film: Man with a Movie Camera
May 17, 5-7p
Week Eight
Mirror Neurons
Projects must be done
May 23
Modern Art.
Structures of Society. Revolution. Social Movements. phase shifts.
Values. Transparency.
Social Movement. Revolution. Sustainability.
Film: Metropolis. 1984.
Reading: Grant Kester
Week Nine
Web page due with documentation and methodology
May 30
Lecture:
Party Studies, Fun, Ludocapitalism
Week Ten
Film Due
June 6
Education of the future. What should happen at UCSD?
Party Planning.
Party on June 7th
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