Platform Shift

Teaching on (Intentionally) Shaky Ground

Shannon Mattern The New School wordsinspace.net
Lebbeus Woods, Terrain, project, 1999

Geological Platform Shift: Sinkholes, AP Photo/Moises Castillo

Seattle Public Library; via OMA, SPL

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Archives, Libraries & Databases The City and Sound Foundations of Media Theory Immediacy: Creating a Multimedia Online Journal Media and Architecture Media and Materiality Media Education Lab Media Exhibition Design Media Research Methods Media Space | Public Space Sound & Space Understanding Media Studies Urban Media Archaeology

Archives, Libraries & Databases The City and Sound Foundations of Media Theory Immediacy: Creating a Multimedia Online Journal Media and Architecture Media and Materiality Media Education Lab Media Exhibition Design Media Research Methods Media Space | Public Space Sound & Space Understanding Media Studies Urban Media Archaeology

Week 2: The Myth of Immateriality Week 3: The Persistence of Materiality Week 4: Material Media Culture & the Social Lives of Things Week 5: Objects, Assemblages & Ecologies Week 6: Media Archaeology Weekend: Field Trip to Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Embodiment Recorded Sound Letters & Handwriting Typewriting Paperwork/Files The Book Photography Film Television Telecommunications Gaming Wirelessness The Internet of Things Media Waste

Week 7: An Immaterial Exhibition of Material Media: On Exhibition as a Form of Scholarship

Guest Presenters: Analog & Digital Curators / Exhibition Designers Students Begin Considering Form and Platforms for Their Online Exhibitions

Weeks 8-10, 13: Plug-Ins Week 11: Pecha Kucha & Peer Review Week 12: Tech Workshop Weeks 13, 14: Final Presentations

Tumblr exploring the chemical bases of media objects, both analog and digital

Exploring the life, death, and rebirth of the slide projector

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Chris Jordan: Intolerable Beauty (Planned Obsolescence)

The human brain on the first tier computes rules of behavior, and, on the second tier rules of the rules that enable us to change our behavior as our changing circumstances require, making us adaptable, our supremely and particularly human trait. -- Lebbeus Woods

Schedule
Tubes & Wires, Cables & Waves: Walking Tour of Cell Phone / Internet Infrastructure Theoretical Framework: Media Archaeology

Requirements
Process Blogs
Map Critique + Prototype Individual Project Proposal Intellectual Tradition: Digital Humanities + Evaluation Rubrics Individual Research Dossier + Draft Map Final Map + Self-/ Group Assessment

Project Presentations + Research Strategies

Mapping Theory + Critique Visit: Jesse Shapins, Harvard metaLab; media artist Matt Knutzen, NYPL Geospatial Librarian Lize Mogel, map artist; editor, An Atlas of Radical Cartography Spatialized Data Modeling Pecha Kucha + Conceptual Design Feedback (Critics: Interaction/Graphic Designer, Urban Historian)

User Scenarios + Paper Prototyping

Cartographic Arguments Presentations + Peer Review