Speculative Networks Independent Study
DM-GY 921X C, Independent Study in Design & Media: Speculative Networks
- Instructor: Craig Fahner
- email: cef9489@nyu.edu
- Website: https://craigfahner.github.io/speculativenetworks
- Office Hours: (by appointment), 370 Jay Street Room 332 or via Zoom at this link
For next week:
Read the following readings and prepare double notations:
- Bernhaupt, Regina, et al. 2020. “Reimagining the Now: A Pedagogical Tool for Thinking Through Design.
- Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. 2013. “Beyond Radical Design?” In Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, 1–10.
- Lovink, Geert. 2022. “Reconfiguring the Technosocial.” In Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet, 199–217.
Syllabus
The course syllabus can be found at this link
Course schedule:
| Week 1 | September 1-6 | Introduction | Optional individual meeting - book |
| Week 2 | Tuesday September 9 2-3:30PM | Initial group meeting – syllabus run through outline of the overall themes of the course | In-person group meeting - calendar link |
| Week 3 | September 15-19 | Reading discussion: Values and Politics in Digital Design and Platforms | Individual meeting - book |
| Week 4 | Thursday September 25 2-4:50 | Workshop 1: Values and Affordances Analysis | In-person group meeting - calendar link |
| Week 5 | September 29-October 3 | Reading discussion: Speculative Design | Individual meeting - book |
| Week 6 | Thursday October 9 2-4:50 | Workshop 2: Speculative Design | In-person group meeting - calendar link |
| Week 7 | October 13-17 | Work on speculative design brief | Optional individual meeting - book |
| Week 8 | October 20-24 | Discussion of speculative design brief | Individual meeting - book |
| Week 9 | October 27-31 | Reading discussion: Ante-Social Media | Individual meeting - book |
| Week 10 | Thursday November 6 2-4:50 | Workshop 3: Ante-Social Website | In-person group meeting - calendar link |
| Week 11 | Thursday November 13 2-3:30 | (mini) Workshop 4: Network Topologies | In-person group meeting - calendar link |
| Week 12 | November 17-21 | Reading discussion: Network Topologies and Protocols | Individual meeting - book |
| November 24-28 | NO MEETING (Thanksgiving Week) | ||
| Week 13 | Thursday December 4 2-4:50pm | Workshop 5: Designing networked interactions | In-person group meeting - calendar link |
| Week 14 | December 8-12 | Creative project progress discussion meetings | Individual meeting - book |
| Week 15 | December 15-19 | Documentation due |
Double Notation Format
- A template for double notation assignments can be found here
Workshops and resources
Past Readings
- Davis, Jenny L. 2020. “Affordances in Practice.” In How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things, 105–22.
- Light, Ben, Jean Burgess, and Stefanie Duguay. 2018. “The Walkthrough Method: An Approach to the Study of Apps.” New Media & Society 20 (3): 881 – 900.
- Kujala, Sari, and Martti Mäntylä. 2000. “Studying Users for Developing Usable and Useful Products.” In Proceedings of 1st Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 1–11.