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Platform

ShiftTeaching on

(Intentionally)

Shaky Ground

Shannon Mattern

The New School

wordsinspace.net

Lebbeus Woods, Terrain, project, 1999


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Geological Platform Shift: Sinkholes, AP Photo/Moises Castillo


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Seattle Public Library; via OMA, SPL


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Via OMA


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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


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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


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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


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Embodiment

Recorded Sound

Letters & HandwritingTypewriting

Paperwork/Files

The Book

PhotographyFilm

Television

Telecommunications

Gaming

Wirelessness

The Internet of Things

Media Waste


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Week 7: An Immaterial Exhibition ofMaterial Media: On Exhibition as a

Form of Scholarship Guest Presenters: Analog & Digital Curators /

Exhibition Designers

Students Begin Considering Form and Platformsfor Their Online Exhibitions

Weeks 8-10, 13: Plug-Ins

Week 11: Pecha Kucha & Peer Review

Week 12: Tech Workshop

Weeks 13, 14: Final Presentations


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


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


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Via IBM


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GitHub


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Via FacebookJustice

Chris Jordan: Intolerable Beauty (Planned Obsolescence)


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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 ourchanging

circumstances require,

making us adaptable,

our supremely and

particularly human

trait.

-- Lebbeus Woods


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Schedule Requirements


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ScheduleTubes & Wires, Cables & Waves:

Walking Tour of Cell Phone / Internet Infrastructure

Theoretical Framework: Media Archaeology

Intellectual Tradition: Digital Humanities +Evaluation Rubrics

Project Presentations + Research Strategies

Mapping Theory + Critique

Visit: Jesse Shapins, Harvard metaLab; media artistMatt 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

RequirementsProcess Blogs

Map Critique + Prototype

Individual Project Proposal

Individual Research Dossier +Draft Map

Final Map +Self-/ Group Assessment

Documents

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