Preliminary assignment
We request that you bring a 300-500 word narrative prepared about a significant visit that you realized. Your narrative should answer the 5Ws questions: Who, what, when, where and why? You will be asked to present your narrative during the first day of the School. Your presentation cannot exceed three minutes. It is possible to use images and sound.
Preliminary readings
To prepare for the discussion and work please read, annotate and extract up to five keywords from the texts included below.
Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zones.” Modern Language Association (MLA), 1991.
(Accessed on 30/07/2017.)
Clifford, James. "Spatial Practices." In Routes, Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 52–91.
Download the article as PDF.
Kimmel, Michael. “Properties of the Body: Lessons Learned from the Anthropology of Embodiment.” In R. Frank, R. Dirven, T. Ziemke, E. Bernández (Eds.) Body, Language and Mind, Mouton de Gruyer: Berlin, 2007.
Access the article via Academia.edu.
Recommended reading by Zsófia Ruttkay:
Simon, Nina.The Participatory Museum. Museum 2.0, Santa Cruz, California, 2010.
Available online here.
Tasks
1. Using a systemic approach, map out the experience of ‘the visit’.
2. Consider how the digital bears an impact on the experience of the visit. What are the pros and cons? Focus on data gathering processes, from a multimodal perspective (e.g. text, images, sound, smell? touch?).
3. Using design research methods, propose a concept for an application (or tool) that supports this significant event, from a human-oriented perspective.