Schedule for IN5010 / IN9010 - 2018

N.B. The programme will change!

 

Date Topic Where Schedule Information / Readings / Deadlines
06.11.2018 1. Introduction to IN5010

Smalltalk Aud.

1416

12:15 - 14:00 Introduction course

14:15 - 15:00 Making groups

15:15 - 16:00 ReDesign group project

Introduction and practical information. Mandatory for all students

07.11.2018

2. Zooming out:

Social and Economic Aspects of Design I

Shell

1456

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare for class

10:15 - 12:00 Video: Blood in the Mobile

13:15 - 14:00 Lecture: Systems Thinking
(From DR Congo to Ghana)

14:15 - 16:00 Hands-on: How does 'your' mobile phone company score on social and environmental responsibility?

Winner (1980): Do artifacts have politics?
08.11.2018

3. Zooming out:

Design Ethics

Java

2423

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 11:45 Lecture: Ethics

12:30 - 15:00 Lecture and Hands-on with Marius Williamsen

Verbeek (2008): Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts.
13.11.2018

4. Zooming out:

Social and Economic Aspects of Design II

Java

2423

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Video: "Waste=Food"

13:00 - 14:30 Lecture: Re-directive practice

14:30 - 16:00 Group work

Fry (2007): Redirective Practice: An Elaboration

14.11.2018

5. Zooming in:

Design and repair I

Shell 1456

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 13:15 Hands-on Section A (Groups 1 to 3) - Library

10:15 - 12:00 Video: The Lightbulb Conspiracy - Section B-C (Groups 4 to 9)

13:15 - 16:00 Group work

Jackson (2014): Rethinking Repair
15.11.2018

6. Zooming in:

Design and repair II

Java

2423

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Video: The Lightbulb Conspiracy Section A (Groups 1 to 3)

13:15 - 16:00 Group work Section A (Groups 1 to 3)

09:15 - 12:15 Hands-on Section B (Groups 4 to 6) - Library

13:15 - 16:00 Group work Section B (Groups 4 to 6)

09:15 - 12:15 Group work Section C (Groups 7 to 9)

13:15 - 16:00 Hands-on Section C (Groups 7 to 9) - Library

As part of the course, artist Glen Farley will exhibit three sculptures in the hall between the two auditoriums, Simula and Small Talk. The kinetic art pieces address some of the issues we discuss in class. We will install these on Friday, November 16, between 9-10:00. You are welcome to meet the artist then.
20.11.2018

7. Practical

 

Postscript

2458

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Peer review first essay: On repair

12:15 -16:00 Group work

Deadline essay I (Monday 19.11 at 18:00)

Deadline submission Peer Review report 16:00

21.11.2018

8. Practical

Shell

1456

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 11:00 Lecture: Mindmaps

11:15 - 14:00 Hands-on: Mindmapping

14:15 - 16:00 Group work

Quan-Haase (2016): Theoretical perspectives on technology

 

22.11.2018

9. Zooming in:

Automation

Java

2423

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Lecture: Theories of technology

13:15 - 14:00 Video: Short videos on automated systems (weapons, surveillance)

14:15 - 15:30 Discussion: Theorising automation

15:30 - 16:00 Group work

Sharkey (2014): Towards a principle for the human supervisory control of robot weapons
27.11.2018

10. Zooming in:

Privacy and Surveillance

Postscript

2458

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 11:15 Video: "Precrime"

12:15 - 14:00 Hands-on: What do they know about you?

14:15 - 16:00 Group work

Feng and Feenberg (2010): Thinking about Design

28.11.2018

11. Zooming out:

ICT and Development

Shell

1456

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 11:00 Lecture: What's love got to do with IT?

11:30 - 14:00 Hands-on: I love IT

14:15 - 16:00 Group work

De Laet and Mol (2000): The Zimbabwe Bush Pump

 

29.11.2018

12. Zooming in:

Gender

Caml

3438

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Lecture: Technology and gender

13:15 - 16:00 Fieldtrip:
The recycle system in Oslo - guided tour at the Haraldsrud Recycling Facility in Oslo. We travel together with the T-bane.

Wacjman (2010): Feminist Theories of Technology

Deadline Essay II (18:00)

04.12.2018

13. Zooming out:

Economics

 

Postscript

2458

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Video: Doughnut Economics

12:00 - 16:00 Group work

Feenberg (2010): Ten Paradoxes of Technology
05.12.2018

14. Course overview

Presentations Re-Design projects

Shell

1456

09:15 - 10:15 Prepare

10:15 - 12:00 Course Summary and questions

12:00 - 15:00 Preparations Exhibition

15:00 - 16:00 Exhibition (Library)

Last day of the course
6.12.2018

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- No meetings Many students have exam in other courses on this day - good luck!

 

12.12.2018
(midnight)

 

Home exam deadline