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please feel free to address topics discussed in class on the recaps pages =Field Trip Tuesday April 7 =

Pocket Parks with Andrea and Birgit to quote Birgit: "She's Blonde, I'm Red"
===meet at Paley Park between Madison and 5th 3pm if you arrive late or can't find them: call Birgit 646-279-6910 have fun! and see you on the 21st for the next reading discussion also see syllabus for a few changes I've made for the next few weeks of class ===


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=**Goings On!** = Wednesday, March 25 6:30 PM Temporary Services - the group who brought us Prisoner's Inventions (reading packet 2) The Center for Book Arts 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor New York, New York 10001 (212) 481-0295 info@centerforbookarts.org --> TS is in the current show: Artists' Books as (Sub)Culture, January 15 - March 28, 2009, curated by Natalie Campbell. The talk will focus on our general publishing history. Many of our booklets are on display at the exhibition.

also Saturday, March 21, 2009, 5:00 - 7:00 PM As mentioned in class during Samantha's crit The Grid Book by Hannah B. Higgins Published by MIT Printed Matter Book Launch

Hey all! Greg shares this excellent Pepsi document

Hello Art 704 Workshop in the History of Design

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Syllabus Instructor: Siebren Versteeg | Email: Siebren@siebrenversteeg.com | Subject: art704 Workshop in the History of Design

This course will undertake a plastic definition of design, considered as practice and context, concept and form, subject and object. We will look at the paradoxical relationship between creating, transforming and challenging a world that is increasingly mediated by these and like interventions. We will look into methods of moving beyond this entrapping equation within disciplines of philosophy, fine art, architecture, media criticism and more. The class will be structured on a schedule of three rotating weeks, encompassing formal conversations, practice and critiques, and field trips to a number of sites throughout the city. 3xlate = 1.5 absence so 6 x late = -1 letter grade 1/3 = reading presentations 1/3 = attendance and participation ** Weekly schedule: **
 * Attendance: ** 3x absent = -1 grade
 * Grades ** : 1/3 = design project / 5 crits
 * Reading ** : Every third week will culminate in a reading discussion to be led by a group of students, please generate a disciplined approach and undertake your readings on an ongoing basis. Consider setting aside a day a week for exclusive reading time.
 * Project ** : Students will undertake an extensive and methodological approach in the designing of a single body or piece of work. This process will be based on self-directed criteria as delineated in the 4th class session. Throughout the semester we will all take part in the development of said project through critique and discussions to take place every third week.
 * Trips ** : Every third week, class will take place at a location off campus; Suggestions for fieldtrip locations are welcome.

1/26 - intro, speed studio visits 2/3 - trip chelsea 2/10 - conversion day 2/17 - discussion - **Designs and Structure** -Erin, Greg, Matthew, Emet, Luiza ( crit design goal) 2/24 - trip - cooper hewitt 3/3 - discussion - **Spaces Built** - Jeff, Greg, Luiza, Antonio, Dominik 3/10 - **crit** present research, investigating and reporting on similar solutions in the field or related topics - __see design project page for more__ 3/17 - **continued crit** present research, investigating and reporting on similar solutions in the field or related topicstrip - more TBA 3/24 - discussion - **Relations** - Samantha, Jacob, Juan, JungHwa, Dominik 3/31 - crit presenting Set solutions 4/7 - trip - get lost 4/14 -spring break 4/21- discussion - **Self design and Redesign** - Matthew, Erin, Jacob, David, Samantha 4/28 - field trip TBA 5/5 - final critiques 5/12 - final critiques

Norman, Donald, "The Psychopathology of everyday Things" The Design of Everyday Things p. 1-33 Lupton, Ellen, "Sex Object" and "Love Leisure and Laundry", Mechanical Brides, Women and Machines from home to Office, p. 6-27 Bloemink, Barbara, "On the Relationship of Art and Design", Design and Art, p. 17-34 Judd, Donald, "It's Hard to Find a Good Lamp" Design and Art, p. 189-196. Bourriaud, Nicolas, "The Use of Forms & Deejaying and Contemporary Art: Similar Configurations", Postproduction, p.29-39 Barry, Peter, "Structuralism", Beginning Theory, p.39-49 Lewitt, Sol, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, p.822-827 Poldma, Tiiu "Dwelling Futures and Lived Experiences: transforming interior spaces", Design Philosophy Papers #2 2008 - http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/paper2/body.html Foster, Hal, "Architecture and Empire", Architecture and Design, p. 43-62 Oppenheimer, Dean, Andrea and Timothy Hursley, "Introduction, Mason's Bend and Harris House", Rural Studio, Samuel Mockabee and an Architecture of Decency. p1-47 Betsy, Aaron, "From High-Tech to Lot-Ek: A Brief Journey" & "Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano speak to Christopher Scoates", Lot-EK Mobile Dwelling Unit, p. 87-112 Dan Graham interview by Mark Francis, Press Play, p. 243 - 258 1. "Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography", Debord, Guy, 1955 “Technology and Uselessness”, //Electronic Civil Disobedience,// Critical Art Ensemble, 1994 “Relational Form”, //Relational Aesthetics,// Bourriaud, Nicolas, 1998 Antagonism and Relational Aethetics, //OCTOBER 110//, Bishop, Claire, 2004 “Zombie Nation” Helliwell, Paul, 2007 1. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”, //The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism,// Harraway, Donna, 2269-2299, 1985 “Machinic Snobbery”, //The Perfect Crime//, Baudrillard, Jean, 1996, 75-84\ "Eye Lust//”, Open Sky//, Virilio, Paul, 89-102 “Foundations”, //Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams,// Resnick, Michael, 1997, 3-20 “Design and Crime”, //Design and Art,// Foster, Hal, 2002, 66-73 “Gaming” & “Arts and Crafts”, //Prisoner’s Inventions,// Angelo,2003, 90-108
 * 2/10 - Designs and Structure **
 * 3/3 - Spaces Built **
 * 3/24 - Relations **
 * 4/21 - Self design and redesign **


 * 5/5 - ** TBA