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Course ModulesDesign Futures / Petro Cultures IntroPre-Cognitioning PostsImmersive Setting PlanningInstall at Project Space 1014Documentation / Takedown at 1014Synthesis / Iteration / CommunicationPublic Online SeminarFinals
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Schedule 6-7:30Introduction Syllabus Lecture: Intro to Futures Studies, History of Modeling, Futures toolsReadings Debate
Lecture: Participatory Futures and the relevance of individual perspectives and biases as we build our projects.
Signal clustering Scenario Matrix in group work
Reading Discussion - Tactical Media and engaging with publics.
Lecture: Field Research and recordings. Field trip planning. 		Field Trip planning - Who is joining. Infrastructure Observations, Interspecies Protocols. Skills assessment: Familarity with Illustrator / Photoshop. 3D modeling. video editing. Unity and Game Design.Voluntary Field Research walking tour through the Superfund Zone of the Gowanus. We'll look at hidden waterstreams and see industrial infrastructure in the Gowanus, Brooklyn. Saturday 3-4:30 PM. The trip is voluntary depending on accessibility to transportation and comfort level. We’ll be outdoors and wearing masks following social distancing guidelines. You’ll be able to borrow a canoe after the walk if you like. Here’s the info about the event (I can get you in for free): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gowanus-watermark-walk-in-brooklyn-tickets-119650432665 Assignment: Develop a recording mechanism / device, whether it is field recordings, notes, bags for seeds from weeds collected on the walk or taking a white paper to print the oily surface of the Gowanus. Alexander Klose - Intro: Petro-humanties and petro pop cultures >> Link to download video clips in advance: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MAKB1kuEM-B4Uvwflw2ic25YnFGgDeAXGuest: Alexander Klose Review assignment, Critical enagements in Games, Petro Indy Games. Review experiments/homework1:1 Crit signups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A_eZeetsx9GSrHvJ8NNReIW0oVPJ91Wfzc0BlR8B4oQ/edit#gid=0Lecture Elizabeth Henaff http://elizabeth-henaff.net/ Building new kinship with microbes, Interspecies Collaboration, Computational Biology and designing across scalesTeam Project - Pre Cognitioning Posts
Project brief and scenario kit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTJqvW4whYLRMKrZMUDos7sYGnigweG_PCTzCDtO-LI/edit?usp=sharing

group breakout sessionsgroup breakout sessionsgroup breakout sessionsgroup breakout sessionsPhase 2 - Reshuffling teamsgroup breakout sessionsgroup breakout sessionsgroup breakout sessionsInstallation planning and setup requirements and planning docs for 1014 installationgroup breakout sessionsgroup breakout sessions6 pm - 8:30 pm
Remote exhibition install of projects at 1014. Coordination via zoom/phone if necessary.		2-4 pm
Critics are viewing the work in a walkthrough at 1014. (students are not required to be in attendance)
Final documentation and installation reset and takedown at 1014

6-8:30 pm
Discussing walkthrough and feedback, sharing documentation

Iteration & Documentation

1014 online exhibition development / prepare online exhibit and seminar material		1014 online exhibition website development and seminar materialPublic Online Seminar 6-7:30 PM

7:30-8:30 PM class discussion		documentation and final material uploadSynthesis and a look back at the seminar and the takeaways
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Class interactivity / Breakout assignments / Asynchronous workDesign sprint: Collective signal Scanning and STEEP model clustering
Futures Wheels		Interpretation of Scenario MatrixSignup to Kanopy with Citytech accountDesign Illustrator / photoshop collage, Reimagine a piece of Infrastructure into a zone that serves two species symbiotically.Viewing the field trip tours and research materials. Assignment: GIF Collages and mashups with petro cultures clips Virtual Location ScoutingConcept iteration and developmentConcept iteration and development Second iteration: Model a measuring instrument, machine, species and capture in AR clips (Adobe Aero, Blippar or similar) 1:1 tutorial signups https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A_eZeetsx9GSrHvJ8NNReIW0oVPJ91Wfzc0BlR8B4oQ/edit#gid=0Phase 1: Development session in groups

Screening and director visit: Jon Cohrs Back Water https://backwatermovie.com/Rendering Experiential visions

What can act as a hybrid immersive artifacts and aesthetics. Looking at hypothetical maps, booklets, political campaigns, video advertisements, ...
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Homework AssigmentHW Individual Assignment #1 (Due 9/3): Collect 10 signals and add them to the shared Signals database https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mDOxTeJEZ49NPhpZzMGn3HxZdYi_qjw4z2ZKxl_iErM/edit?usp=sharingHW Individual Assignment #2: (Due 9/15) Create a virtual tour following the CLUI Meadowlands tour instructions http://www.clui.org/newsletter/winter-2013/new-jersey-meadowlands Produce a 2-3 Min video describing observations on that tour from a non-human perspective for understanding from reading these landscapes. This can be a be from a robot point of view or another species or at a completely different scale, such as focussing on macroscopic textures. Pull up historical research, information on brownfields, ecosystems, digital infrastructures, datacenters, pipelines as well as other layers and integrate them into your tour. HW Individual Assignment #3: (Due Oct. 1) Model a measuring instrument, machine, species that exists in that zone. See this as a Sci-Fi exercise, but think about alternative world views and values that we might want to see in the world that would contrast the typical sci-fi tropes. 

Bring these sketches to life in a hyperreality / augmented scene. So Adobe Aero is one way to quickly prototype an augmented sketch https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/get-started.html but there’s other approaches if you want to do it After Effects, Flash or the like. In total you should have 3 scenes with a short 100 word description of the rules of the zone and how it’s related to petro-modernity. Share those clips on Slack before class. 		Work with your team to pick a scenario, location and build it out with the scenario development guidelines. (due 10/8)Create an audio tour that introduces one scenario and setting. (due 10/13)Create a compelling sequential narrative (due 10/20)Prepare an in class presentation of your process, documentation, and narrative. (due 10/22)Work with your team to pick a scenario, location and build it out with the scenario development guidelines. (due 10/27)Create a compelling sequential narrative (due 10/29)Prepare an in class presentation of your process, documentation, and narrative. (due 10/3)Upload all work, writing, and additional documentation to your Google folder. (due 10/5)
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Reading AssignmentReading (due 9/1) Tony Dunne, Fiona Raby. “Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming” (chapter 3). The MIT Press 2013 https://readings.design/PDF/speculative-everything.pdfReading (due 9/8): Catalog of the Krzysztof Wodiczko Monument from 2020, a contemporary tactical media piece. https://monoskop.org/images/a/ab/Krzysztof_Wodiczko_Monument_2020.pdfViewing (due 9/10): Andrei Tarkovsky's - Stalker
1979 https://www.kanopy.com/product/stalker-0		Reading (due Oct. 1): Elizabeth Henaff is joining our for a lecture with some fascinating research on computational biology and designing for invisible inhabitants. Here’s a good article she’s published and this is good to read in advance. Be ready to ask her a question:
https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/invisible-inhabitants/release/1 		Listening (due 10/6): Multispecies Worldbuilding - Heather Davis, writer and feminist theorist, talks about plastic and the production of “toxic progeny,” humans and nonhumans born of the petrochemical industry in the United States. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/multispecies-worldbuilding/id1491181624?i=1000488788226
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