8/23: Intro to design and the course
- Listen to an episode titled The Yin & Yang of Basketball on the 99% Invisible Podcast
- Listen to an episode titled Nuts and Bolts: Seven small inventions that changed the world on the 99% Invisible Podcast
- Watch a YouTube video: Generative AI Is About to Reset Everything
- Watch the first video on this website: 6 videos on the 5 spaces for design in education. (You could choose to watch them all – but that would be inflicting too much Punya on yourself before the semester starts, so it is ok to just watch the first one).
8/30: The idea of design (and design thinking)
- Norman, D. (2013). Rethinking design thinking. Core77 [online].
- Warr, M., Mishra, P., Scragg, B., Powers, J., & Wong, L-S. (2022). Complicating Design Thinking in Education: A University-School District Partnership to Design and School for the Future. In Sanzo, K. L. & Scribner, J. P. (Eds.), Design Thinking: Research, Innovation, and Implementation. Information Age Publishing.
- Close, K., Warr, M., & Mishra, P. (under review). The Ethical Consequences, Contestations, and Possibilities of Designs in Educational Systems.
9/06: Designerly ways of knowing
- Chapter 4: The Creative Leap in Nigel Cross (2006). Designerly ways of knowing. Springer.
- Chapter 5: Creative Strategies in Nigel Cross (2006). Designerly ways of knowing
9/13: Tour of Creativity Commons
- Work on Big Kahuna
9/20: People and things
- Listen to one episode of the podcast: Everything is Alive
- Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Halton, E. (1981). The meaning of things: Domestic symbols and the self. Cambridge University Press
- Blog post: Things we hold on to in a shifting world
9/27: Wickedness, Design & Dewey
- Jordan, M. E., Kleinsasser, R. C., & Roe, M. F. (2014). Wicked problems: Inescapable wickedity. Journal of Education for Social Work, 40(4), 415–430.
- Buchanan, R. (1992). Wicked problems in design thinking. Design Issues, 8(2), 5–21.
- Schön, D. A. (1992). The theory of inquiry: Dewey’s legacy to education. Curriculum Inquiry, 22(2), 119–139. https://doi.org/10.2307/1180029
10/04: Bias in Design & Work day
- Listen to 99% Invisible Podcast episode titled On Average and read Beyond Average and read my blog post: Gilbert Daniels, the gardener who changed the world
- An interview with Caroline Criado Perez (2019). The dangers of gender bias in design Evoke and on the 99% Invisible podcast: Invisible Women
- NYTimes Essay: Mr Biden: Tear down this highway
- Blog post: Digitally cloning myself using AI
10/11: Fall break
TBD
10/18: Aesthetics, Emotion & Design
- Norman, D. (2002). Emotion & design: Attractive things work better. Interactions.
- Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Robinson, R. E. (1990). The art of seeing: An interpretation of the aesthetic encounter. Los Angelos: J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Chapter 2: The Major Dimensions of the Aesthetic Experience
- Listen to podcast: Why aesthetics is essential for science education
10/25: Design in Society
- Johnson, S. (2015). How we got to now: Six innovations that made the modern world: Introduction
- Basalla, G. (1988). The evolution of technology.
- Chapter I: Diversity, Necessity, Evolution
- Chapter VII: Evolution and progress
- Three blog posts by Punya:
- August 9, 2022: Unpacking McLuhan’s “The medium is the message (1/3).
- August 9, 2022: The Postman always rings twice: Unpacking McLuhan (3/3)
- October 23, 2022: Modeling human behavior: The new dark art of silicon sampling.
11/01: Design Theory
- Dalsgaard, P. (2014). Pragmatism and design thinking. International Journal of Design, 8(1), 143–155.
- Warr, M., Mishra, P., & Scragg, B., (2020). Designing Theory. Educational Technology Research and Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09746-9
Optional
- Steen, M. (2013). Co-Design as a Process of Joint Inquiry and Imagination. Design Issues, 29(2), 16–28. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00207
- Totally optional, if you want to get a video version of how the TPACK framework came to be (something described in the Warr, Mishra, Scragg (2020) article: Why Theory (or the TPACK story). This talk is around 25 mins long – but one could argue this talk is relevant for all doctoral students.
11/08: No readings
11/15: The BIG KAHUNA
- It’s happening!
11/29: Final class meeting
- Looking back & Looking forward