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RISD ID History Fall 2008: Culminating Statements
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. As discussed in class, please use this final 500-word essay as a chance to identify and comment on the themes that have unfolded in your collected portfolio of work. Please post this final essay (and make any final edits and changes to all the work on your blog) by this Sunday at 9pm. I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and I look forward to seeing you at our final class, Monday December 1st at 9am. Posted by Nancy Austin. Dealing with the Passed/Past.
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: Functionalism as a theory of form
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Sunday, September 28, 2008. Functionalism as a theory of form. The first timeline was an orientation to thinking about the past through an analogy and the visual organization of a thesis or point of view. We talked about where one could properly begin a history of industrial design, and the downstream consequences of choosing that beginning. Did your history emphasize continuity or change? What is at stake with each choice? Design as a critical modern practice? In the third tim...
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: September 2008
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Sunday, September 28, 2008. Functionalism as a theory of form. The first timeline was an orientation to thinking about the past through an analogy and the visual organization of a thesis or point of view. We talked about where one could properly begin a history of industrial design, and the downstream consequences of choosing that beginning. Did your history emphasize continuity or change? What is at stake with each choice? Design as a critical modern practice? In the third tim...
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: How do products get meaning?
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Tuesday, October 28, 2008. How do products get meaning? This week in class I asked you to consider two case studies in design and the construction of gender in order to get at these larger questions/issues:. How do products get meaning? To what extent do you believe a designer is able to “design” meaning into a product and determine a user’s behavior? Do you believe design has the power to effect or even control how a person can or cannot act? Sex is a basic human need that has...
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: December 2008
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Our Collective Practice of History. In the methods of thinking. About history more than a concern with the conveyance of factual content. Why? Because the topicality of the specific examples covered will be rendered out of date or out of fashion within a decade. But a student well trained in the tools of historical thinking will be able to use and build on this skill for a lifetime. Who are you each as critical thinkers? Posted by Nancy Austin.
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: Our Collective Practice of History
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Our Collective Practice of History. In the methods of thinking. About history more than a concern with the conveyance of factual content. Why? Because the topicality of the specific examples covered will be rendered out of date or out of fashion within a decade. But a student well trained in the tools of historical thinking will be able to use and build on this skill for a lifetime. Who are you each as critical thinkers? Posted by Nancy Austin.
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: Mid-Semester Review
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Monday, October 20, 2008. We enter now the second half of the semester on this, the last day of summer. This week’s assignment is to make sure you have met the goals for midsemester and posted the best possible iteration of your work on your blog by the deadline of Sunday October 26th at 8am. As a class, our goal will be to use these essays to promote respectful dialogue about complex questions that no one has “solved”. What are the issues? Posted by Nancy Austin. Class Members...
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RISD ID History Fall 2008: October 2008
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RISD ID History Fall 2008. Tuesday, October 28, 2008. How do products get meaning? This week in class I asked you to consider two case studies in design and the construction of gender in order to get at these larger questions/issues:. How do products get meaning? To what extent do you believe a designer is able to “design” meaning into a product and determine a user’s behavior? Do you believe design has the power to effect or even control how a person can or cannot act? Sex is a basic human need that has...
