Reading Groups

  • Reading group 1: Julynn Benedetti, Chris Choi, Gregory Climer
  • Reading group 2: Lindsey Elliott, Ya-Han Tsui, Basak Haznedaroglu
  • Reading group 3: Haeyoung Kim, Jeanna Hamilton, Garrett Tillman
  • Reading group 4: Kathleen Reilly, Caroline Romedenne, George Bixby
  • Reading group 5: Joseph Laquinte, Jaqueline Vigil, Ashley Williams

Readings

  1. Mark Weiser’s ““The Computer for the 21st Century” for Fri Jan 29 (rgroup 1)
  2. Donald Norman’s “The Psychopathology of Everyday Things” from The Design of Everyday Things for Wed Feb 3rd, (rgroup 2)
  3. “Interaction Relabeling and Extreme Characters: Methods for Exploring Aesthetic Interactions” by Djajadiningrat, Gaver,and Frens
  4. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” from Landon Winners’s The Whale and The Reactor for Fri Feb 05, (rgroup 3)
  5. Lev Manovich’s “Poetics of Augmented Space”, from Space Time Play, ed. Von Borries, Watz, and Bottger for Wed Feb 10, (rgroup 4)
  6. Ian Borden’s, “Another Pavement, Another Beach: Skateboarding and the Performative Critique of Architecture.” For Wed Feb 10, (rgroup 5)
  7. Alison Sant’s “Redefining the Basemap,” from Intelligent Agent for Wed Feb 17 (rgroup 1)
  8. IAA’s “Tactical Cartography” from An Atlas of Tactical Cartography for Feb 17 (rgroup 2)
  9. Greg Costikyan’s “I Have No Words but I Must Design: Toward a Critical Vocabulary for Games” for Wed Feb 24 (rgroup 3)
  10. Johan Huizinga’s “Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon” for Wed Feb 23 (r group 4)
  11. Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman’s “Meaningful Play,” and “Designing Play” from Rules of Play for Wed March 3rd, (rgroup 5)
  12. Marie-Laure Ryan’s Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of Narrative in Digital Technologies for Wed March 31st (r group 1)
  13. Augusto Boal’s excerpts from Theater of the Opressed for Wed Apr 7th (r group 2)
  14. Dave Szulborski’s “Game or Not a Game,” chapter 1 from This is Not a Game (optional)