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Instruction Sets For Strangers / Week 6 Reading Response

‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’ and ‘Cultural Probes’   The first thing I will note about these articles is the futility of researching and attempting to classify the Human Experience because of its amorphous and temporary nature. Not only do we all have our own tendencies and predispositions, these change as our lives …

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Week 3 – Reading Assignment Day 2

Week 3 – Reading Assignment Day 2   I believe that the Mashup Readings for Week 3 can be framed really well in context with Monday’s reading on Prototyping. To frame this context we jump from he representational role of prototyping to the tangent role of problem solving. There is a clear theme in almost …

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Week 3 – Reading Assignment Day 1

Week 3 – Reading Response Assignment   The reading assignments for week three touch at the very core of what it measn to design. Excusing the almost direct pun portrayed by that statement in reference to the last reading, Maeda’s “What is Design”, these articles show the entire iceberg of the design industry that is …

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Week 2 Day 1 Reading Response

Week Two: Day One Reading Assignment   This weeks readings, “Escaping Flatland” and  “Things That Make Us Smart: Chapter Three – The Power of Representation” both provide an excellent critique on both exemplary and poorly crafted methods of conveying information. While both articles give examples and context for the preferred methods of conveying information visually, …

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