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Proposed Calendar

Meeting Notes

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What is a curriculum?

Future meetings: July 19, August 2, August 16, August 30 Room 14-400, 1:00-3:00

Auxilliary culture & cognition meeting July 19, noon, room 14-700

Note: "the machine" enables anyone to change the number of classes, in order to see how that change affects the whole plan. It will be here shortly. (Thanks Rob!)

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INVENTORY OF SKILLS THAT UNDERGRADUATES NEED TO ACQUIRE

Critial & Creative Thinking (W) IAT 209

How do you know a good idea is a good idea?

Course covers methods of generating ideas, testing ideas and communicating them effectively in visual, textual and oral forms to persuade a target audience.

• Writing (several genresof academic/professional writing) relation between form & context

• Reflective practice: examine their credibility, signs of limited thinking

• Critical reading: relation between active reading and their critical writing

• Analysis: test ideas, evaluate arguments, id faulty reasoning

• Rhetorical practice: use of tone and voice in scientific/technical writing, art criticism, oral discourse

• Critique: measure objectivity/subjectivity of their critical voice

• Case study: compare & contrast usccessful & failed technologies (What is innovation?), id roles of opinion leaders & change agents

• Scenario/role-play: teams research a failed technology, assume role of prof. communicators through research, composition & design aimed at persuading

• Teamwork: midterm & final projects are collaborative, req. peer evaluation & ind. reflection

Everyone takes 1st year foundations: what are they?

• Critical thinking

• Team work

• Understanding both form and content of genres and styles

• Composition of one's own ideas in specific styles and genres

• Writing

• Speaking

others????

Knowing how to design

• formal (composition, color, line, composition, form, proximity, hierarchy, contrast...)

• Human-centred (perceptual, cognitive and social/communicative abilities, limitations, and preferences)

Culture

Psycholology

Kinesiology

• iterative design process: (Analyze context, design, prototype, test)

Evidence-based design: reflection on action

formulate questions from practice

seek information

ground in practice

implement in design

evaluate in context of use

• Design methods

Knowing how to represent designs

• Sketching

• Writing

• Photography [see "Media Skills" below]

• Basic videography for documentation/communication (a bit different in focus than storytelling per se) [see "Media Skills" below]

• CAD

• Solid modelling

• Parametric modelling

• Animation

• Software models,

Toolkit architectures

Media Skills

• still and video camera operation

• use of microphones and audio field recording

• introduction to post-production photo, sound, and video software

• production planning and storyboarding

• composition

• "seeing" and using light

• basic manipulation of image

• sequencing still and moving images

• processing and editing sound

• expressive use of sound

• combining and sequencing sound and image

Knowing the artifact -- the internal view of the artifact.

• Text & Image

• Software tools for Prototyping interfaces

• Prototyping 3D objects (this is a composite skill that needs to be unpacked)

• Interactive animation (depending on the domain, may be a representational concern)

• Interface design

• Electronics

• Mechanics

• Statics

• Materials

• Manufacturing processes

• web design

• exhibition design

• designing for public spaces

• game design

Knowing how to work with others

• Teamwork

• Collaboration

Understanding designs in context -- the external view of the artifact.

• design history

• Ethnography: the user in context of culture, practice, organization

• task analysis

• user testing

• Usability

• semiotics

• user

• cultural and media studies

• Speculative design (combines cultural studies with making)

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