Class time: 11:00am-2:00pm, Tues + Thurs
Instructor: Professor Cathryn (Cat) Ploehn (she/her)
Office: The void of the internet
Email: [email protected]
"By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism—in short, cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation. In the traditions of “Western” science and politics—the tradition of racist, male-dominant capitalism; the tradition of progress; the tradition of the appropriation of nature as resource for the productions of culture; the tradition of reproduction of the self from the reflections of the other—the relation between organism and machine has been a border war. The stakes in the border war have been the territories of production, reproduction, and imagination." —Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto [3]
The interface is one of those borders at stakes in our imagination. As a step forward, Haraway argues "for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction" [3]. In this class, we take up Haraway's provocation to learn about the interface, and how we as interaction designers command and create at this zone of play and possibility. Check out the full lecture on interfaces here.
https://codepen.io/aaroniker/pen/gOwEjBr
https://codepen.io/aaroniker/full/MWQjxro
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