Brooke, Ricardo, and everyone,
Thanks for your interesting points regarding notions of design,
designing, and designers. This has also been on my mind recently,
especially as a result of my position within a traditional
human-computer interaction program. Here there is no questioning the
role
And on this point, a text by a group at Berkeley on The Necrosocial:
http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/
Their interrogation of the role of high theory, capital, and the
University qua Institution is extremely cogent at this moment.
nick
Marco Deseriis wrote:
Hi Marco, Micha, everyone
The irony implicit in your statement re: this situation begs for
further explication + analysis:
It is only in this country that three decades of brainwashing have
led to the obliteration of historic memory (the cancellation of May1st
being the most notable
Good morning from Berkeley,
I wasn't participating in yesterday's discussion about viral networks/UC
protests because I was standing in the rain with close to 2,000 Berkeley
protesters while we waited outside of Wheeler Hall as friends and colleagues
occupied the building. So, please forgive me
Thank you to everyone for the comments and news on the strikes on the UC
campuses.
For the last several years, besides attending live events here in Milwaukee,
I've found that increasingly effective is the online sharing and signing of
petitions; many of these work, or, beginning by spreading
Wow, great to mention Victor Papanek. I knew him back when I was a
student at the Kansas city art institute. I remember his bouyant
personality and very dry wit. We have his little book -- containing
really the seeds of everything important about design as a generative
radical
I think its curious how all of these websites, like the Tarnac 9, the
invisible committee calling for uc occupations and the necrosocial all
have the same wordpress theme...
2009/11/20 nicholas knouf na...@cornell.edu:
And on this point, a text by a group at Berkeley on The Necrosocial:
Glad to see the HCI discussion come up here, and in the context of
questions about Design in education. Perhaps I'm just pessimistic, but
I don't think we have long before today's New Media programs are
squeezed out of fine arts curricula by HCI and its cousins in
Industrial Design and
Dear Kevin, Ricardo, Nick and Brooke,
I think we are okay to talk about this stuff online. I'm hoping those in
Administrative posts will use our think tank as a way to enlighten
themselves about other alternatives. For me option 4 is mighty tempting
but structurally within many Visual Arts
