Contemporary Problems YSDN3102 Readings 2005

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York University /Sheridan Institute - Honours Bachelor of Design Program

FA/YSDN 3102 3.0 Contemporary Problems in Design Fall Term 2005

FA/YSDN 3102 3.0 Contemporary Problems in Design Fall Term 2005 1

This course requires that you dedicate time outside ofclass to read articles for each weeks classes.

These citations can be used as starting points for your

research papers and give a deeper understanding of the

topic.

Readings

Sept. 14 Reproduction and Meaning

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. (London : BBC/Penguin

Books.1983): 7-45.

Walter Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age of

Mechanical Reproduction in Guins, Raiford and

Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. Popular Culture A Reader.

(London, Sage Publications, 2005): 96-106

Sept. 21 Human Centered Design

Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. (New

York : Basic Books (Perseus), 2002): 1-33.

Margolin, Victor. The Politics of The Articial. The

Politics of The Articial: Essays on Design and Design

Studies. (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

2002): 106-123.

Sept. 28 Sustainability

McDonough, William and Michael . Cradle to cradle :

remaking the way we make things. (New York : North

Point Press, 2002): 17-44.

Papanek, Victor. The Green Imperative: Natural Design

for the Real World. (New York : Thames and Hudson,

1995): 49-74.

Oct. 19 Natural Capitalism

Karl Marx. Commodity Fetishism. In Capital, Vol. 1.

Trans. Ben Fowkes. (New York: Vintage, 1977): 163

165

David Smith, Phil Evans. Kapital for Beginners. (New

York: Pantheon, 2001): 30 43.

Nov. 2 Consumption Theory

Baudrillard, Jean. Part 2: The Theory of Consumption

The Social Logic of Consumption. The Consumer Society:

Myths and Structures. (London : Sage Publications,1999):

49-68.

Foster, Hal. Design and Crime. (London : Verso, 2002):

3-26.

Nov. 9 The Ethics of Aesthetics

Thomas McEvilley, What is at Stake in the Culture Wars?

In Richard Roth and Susan King Roth, Beauty is Nowhere

(Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1998): 17 36.

Dick Hebdige, The Bottom Line on Planet One: Squaring

up to The Face. In Jessica Evans, Stuart Hall, eds., Visual

Culture: The Reader. (London: Sage, 1999): 99 124.

Nov. 16 Advertising and Branding

Klein, Naomi. No logo: no space, no choice, no jobs: taking

aim at the brand bullies. (Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada,

2000): 2-26.

Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. Trans. James

Benedict. (London : Verso,1999): 164-178.

Nov. 23 Objects of Desire: Shopping

Leong, Sze Tsung. And then there was shopping In

Chinua, Inaba, Koolhaas, Leong, eds., Harvard Design

School Guide to Shopping. (Kln: Taschen, 2001): 129

155.

Chinua, Inaba, Koolhaas, Leong. Scope. In Harvard

Design School Guide to Shopping. (Kln: Taschen, 2001):

51 71.

Nov. 30 The Economics of World Redesign

Bruce Mau. Urban Economies. In Massive Change (NewYork: Phaidon, 2004): 30 45.

Mark Kingwell et al. Reimagining the Waterfront. Toronto

Life 36 no. 9 (June 2002): 81 101.

David Reinfurt, I Was Thinking the Other Day about One

Possible Scenario for a Collective Future. In Steven

Heller and Vronique Vienne, Citizen Designer (New York:

Allworth Press, 2003): 159 174.

Readings and Bibliography


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Bibliography

Alfred, Gerald J., Charles T. Brusaw & Walter E. Oliu.

Handbook of Technical Writing. 6th Ed. (Boston and

New York : Bedford/St. Martins, 2000).

Barthes, Roland. The Semiotic Challenge. (University

of Berkeley : California Press, 1994).

Baudrillard, Jean. The Consumer Society: Myths and

Structures. (London : Sage Publications. 1999).

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. (London : British

Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, [1990],

c1972).

Brown, Stuart, Diane Collinson and Robert Wilkinson.

One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers. (London

: Routledge, 1998).

Buchanan, Richard and Victor Margolin., ed. The Idea of

Design. (Cambridge, MA. : MIT Press, 1996).

Buchanan, Richard and Victor Margolin., ed.

Discovering Design. (Chicago : The University of

Chicago Press. 1995).

Chung, Judy Chuihua, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas and

Sze Tsung Leong eds. Project on the City 2: Harvard

Design School Guide to Shopping. (Koln : Taschen,

2001).

Collinson, Diane. Fifty Major Philosophers: A Reference

Guide. (London : Routledge, 1987).

Foster, Hal. Recodings. Art, Spectacle, Cultural

Politics. (New York : The New Press, 1985).

Foster, Hal. Design and Crime. (London : Verso, 2002).

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research

Papers, 6th Edition. (New York : The Modern Language

Association of America, 2003).

Guins, Raiford and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. Popular

Culture A Reader. (London, Sage Publications, 2005).

Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins,

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial

Revolution. (Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1999).

Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce: A

Declaration of Sustainability. (New York : HarperBusiness

Publishers, 1994).

Horn, Robert E. Visual Language: Global

Communication for the 21st Century. (Banbridge Island,

Washington : MacroVU, Inc., 1998).

Klein, Naomi. No logo: no space, no choice, no jobs: taking

aim at the brand bullies. (Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada,

2000. 2-26).

Knobil, Marcel. ed. Cool Brand Leaders: An Insight into

Britains Coolest Brands 2002. (London : Superbrands,

2002).

LeGates, Richard T and Frederic Stout. The City Reader.

2nd. ed. (London : Routledge, 1996, 2000).

Marx, Karl. Capital, Vol. 1. Trans. Ben Fowkes. (New York:

Vintage, 1977): 163 165

Margolin, Victor. The Politics of The Articial: Essays on

Design and Design Studies. (Chicago : The University of

Chicago Press. 2002).

Margolin, Victor. ed. Design Discourse. (Chicago : The

University of Chicago Press, 1989).

MacCracken, Grant. Culture and Consumption: New

Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer

Goods and Activities. (Bloomington : Indiana UniversityPress, 1988).

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. (New York :

Kitchen Sink Press (HarperPerennial), 1993).

McDonough, William and Michael . Cradle to cradle :

remaking the way we make things. (New York : North

Point Press, 2002).

McLuhan, Marshall, Media Hot and Cold, from

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

McLuhan, Marshall and Eric, Laws of Media: The New

Science, (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1988).

Messenger, William E. and Jan de Bruyn. The Canadian

Writers Handbook. 2nd ed. (Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-

Hall, 1986).


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Norman, Donald A.. The Psychology of Everyday

Things. (New York : Basic Books, 1988).

Papanek, Victor. The Green Imperative: Natural Design

for the Real World. (New York : Thames and Hudson,

1995).

Pye, David. The nature and aesthetics of design.

London : Herbert Press, 1988, 1978.

Richard Roth, Richard and Susan King Roth, Beauty is

Nowhere. (Amsterdam, G+B Arts, 1998).

Smith, David and Phil Evans. Kapital for Beginners.

(New York: Pantheon, 2001): 30 43.

Strunk, William Jr., E.B. White and Roger Angell. The

Elements of Style, 4th ed. (Boston : Allyn and Bacon,

2000).

Sturkin, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of

Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford :

Oxford University Press, 2001.

Underhill, Paco. Why We Buy: The Science of

Shopping. (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999).

Vicente, Kim J. The human factor : revolutionizing the

way people live with technology. (Toronto : A.A. Knopf

Canada, 2003).

Periodicals

Design Issues. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Design Studies. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science.

Eye Magazine. London : Quantum House.

Frame. Amsterdam : Peter Huiberts.

Metropolis. New York : Bellerophon Publications Inc.

Print. Rockville, MD. : RC Publications.

Visible Language. Cleveland : MIT Press.

www.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage

Print. Rockville, MD. : RC Publications.

Visible Language. Cleveland : MIT Press.

www.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage


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