DAY 9 W 25 SEP AW V. 1.0, 072713
VISITS TO CREATE LAB & HCII
“The Future is Just across The Cut”
– Arnold Wasserman
DRIVING QUESTIONS:
1. What might the work of CMU’s CREATE LAB and HCII mean for LIFE2050 in your area scenarios ?
2. How might the work of the HCII, CREATE LAB, amplify, accelerate & scale your focus area?
3. How might the Create Lab, HCII, and CMU interact with people in Pittsburgh, city government, metro-region governments, non-profit organizations in 2050?
SCHEDULE
4:30-5:30pm EST Visit & discussion with Illah Nourbaksh, director, CREATE lab
5:30-5:45pm EST walking break back to mm215 get something at the Gates Cafe.
5:45-7:00pm EST In class discussion about early signs with Peter Scupelli and Arnold Wasserman about some rising stars at HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION INSTITUTE.
Class activity with post its and sharpies. Think is about the driving questions. Put one post-it per project, and three imaginative leaps (e.g, What if…. , How might we…., Why not…., What if this was [adopted, ubiquitous, everywhere] …. How might society change with this concept…. ).
How [learning, sharing, enabling] should be in Pittsburgh 2050. Teams make concept maps of how HCII or CREATE lab work might advance, amplify, accelerate, scale innovation in your pathway
7:00-7:20pm EST PS PRESENTS ASSIGNMENT 9 + CLASS DISCUSSES. All general discussion about the course, student expectations, questions, concerns
7:20pm EST CLASS END
REFERENCE & RESOURCES For further exploration TBD
STUDENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES: Measurable or Observable Knowledge, Skills, Attributes, Ability to Apply, Interpret, Create, Design, Explain, etc. TBD
OTHER REFERENCES & SOURCES TBD
ASSIGNMENT 9 A
Answer the research project questions in the template ResearchPlan_DTF
ASSIGNMENT 9 B
Create a project plan for your next deliverable on October 16.
project plan template Project_Plan
ASSIGNMENT 9 C
View, browse, download the following material. Be prepared to critique, etc. tbd
HANS ROSLING: VISUALIZING 200 COUNTRIES, 200 YEARS, 4 MINUTES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
HANS ROSLING: MAKING SENSE OF TOO MUCH DATA http://www.ted.com/playlists/56/making_sense_of_too_much_data.html
THE QUANTIFIED SELF (GS) MOVEMENT: Self Knowledge Through Numbers: http://bit.ly/17rtXuS http://bit.ly/12TqUMe http://bit.ly/195aC3M
– Look in particular at this Video and what happens when Rajiv Mehta began paying attention to the visual 
representation of his self-tracking data: http://bit.ly/15c8LHl
LIVEHOODS, FROM MCOMMERCE LAB, CMU http://livehoods.org http://mcom.cs.cmu.edu
- LIVEHOODS
A MAP OF YOUR CITY’S INVISIBLE NEIGHBORHOODS http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669554/a-map-of-your-city-s-invisible-neighborhoods-according-to-foursquare
GONG SZETO DESIGN OFFICE http://gongszeto.com
PARIS DATAVIZ OPEN DATA PROJECT http://www.paris.fr/accueil/les-demandes/open-data-paris-ouvre-ses-donnees/rub_9785_actu_94648_port_24385
PARIS DATAVIZ PANELS http://panneaux.expoviz.fr/
PARISDATA: OPEN DATA PROGRAM http://bit.ly/1f9Botj
CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY http://welcometocup.org/About PUBLIC POLICY GRAPHICS http://bit.ly/15E0tIK
IS BIG DATA AN ECONOMIC BIG DUD? http://nyti.ms/16tcT57
THE STORY OF STUFF Video STORY OF STUFF http://bit.ly/13QMJ1G
CRITIQUE OF ANNIE LEONARD’s VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/1dfoGNb
- Browse other future scenarios at
ASSIGNMENT 9 D
Read IDEATE NETWORK PROSPECTUS: IDEATE summary March 2013 Prepare to critique, compare, contrast with other cross-disciplinary initiatives. Prepare to discuss how IDEATE NETWORK work might advance, amplify, accelerate, scale innovation in yourDXF LAB pathway.
REFLECTION A
Re the Quantified Self (QS) Movement: If you spend so much time tracking what you do and meeting with other QC-ers, do end up having no time to actually do stuff?
REFLECTION B
Re my interview with Ed Feigebaum. It is amazing in retrospect to see what revolutionary Nobel Prize thinking was going on on “The Other Side of The Cut” that we knew nothing about in our happy little Beaux Arts cocoon in the Fine Arts building. Fine Arts at that time took no part in the interdisciplinary invention that was going on elsewhere at Tech. I doubt that would be the case today. And that is one of the big changes for Design at Tech since my day. My design thinking work didn’t converge with Ed’s work until decades later in Silicon Valley.
[OPTIONAL IDEA TBD: Designers today have to balance the tension between the paradigms of the innovative designer vs. the creative designer – a Teague-like paradigm that responds to the current culture and a Bel Geddes-like paradigm that is disruptive and reinvents culture.
NOTE
ADD: ASW SLIDESHARE ON DATA VISUALIZATION, WYSIWYG, ETC.: tbd
