Study guide for Test 1: use it (and your time) wisely

Review for Test 1: this Wed. (31 March)

COME TO LECTURE: In addition to introducing this week's theme: Massive Change, on Wednesday we will be reviewing for Test 1 -- which will be conducted on our first meeting after the Easter break, Wednesday 21 April. If you would like to optimise your test taking capabilities for our first test, it is HIGHLY recommended that you attend Wednesday's lecture.

PS. Remember there an NO tutorials this week.

Library tutorials: this week and next

Admission: FREE (!) don't miss the upcoming library tutorials: database-searching classes classes run today and tomorrow at 3pm; also next Monday (29 March) and Tuesday (30 March) at 3pm. There will be classes on using the catalogue Wednesday (31 March) and Thursday (1 April) at 3pm.

TED Talks: the magic of the placebo

For those of you who would like to know more about the Placebo Project, follow this link to Eric Mead's TED talk, The Magic of the Placebo.

Week 4: readings Foucault + Anderson

Be sure to read both Foucault and Anderson before Wednesday's lecture, exploring the ethics of design and information in the 21st century.

Assignment 1: Abstract + Annotated Bibliography

The Assignment 1 brief has been posted to this blog (see Briefs + Tools). We will discuss this brief in more detail on Wednesday.

Week 4 reading: Foucault on Panopticism

Week 3: The Placebo Project

This week we go undercover to explore the secret lives of electronic objects. Read more here and here.

Dunne+Raby, Electro-draught Excluder

Week 2: The Everyday [recorded lecture]

Today's lecture on the Everyday is now available, click here.

Juicy Salif by Philippe Starck for Alessi

Howling at the Moon

This week's topic: the everyday

in preparation for Wednesday's lecture, please read the excerpt from Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine and Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews : Observatory: Design Observer

Cat Genie, Self-Flushing, Self-Washing Cat Box

Dunne+Raby Robots

Technological Dream Series: No. 1, Robots from dunne & raby on Vimeo.

Today's lecture: recording available (sort of)

Follow the link for a digital recording of today's [Wed. 3 March] lecture. You will be promted to "sign in" please use your Vic user name and password to login. Frustratingly, it seems as if the University's media player prefers Internet Explorer over Firefox. Mac users may have some difficulties as well. Need help? contact margaret.petty@vuw.ac.nz

Scheduling Conflicts? Don't panic...

All students enrolled in FILM231 and DSDN283 will have access to full recordings of weekly CCDN271 Wed. lectures. Shortly after the lecture, a link will be posted on this blog directing students to the recorded lecture.Students enrolled in FILM231 should attend the FILM231 lectures on Wed. and watch the CCDN271 lecture online. Students in the Wed. morning DSDN283 should attend the first hour of the CCDN271 Wed. morning lecture, and step out quietly when it is time for the DSDN283 tutorial stream. Any questions/concerns, please contact margaret.petty@vuw.ac.nz

Tutorial Streams: room for all

Please note the following [final] tutorial streams for CCDN271, room assignments have shifted from those on the course outline. Please contact the Course Coordinator: margaret.petty@vuw.ac.nz if you have any questions or conflicts or were unable to sign up for a tutorial stream after the first lecture.
Stream A: Fri. 10:30am-11:20am, VS308 [Craig Johnson]
Stream B: Fri. 11:30am-12:20am, VS308 [Craig Johnson]
Stream C: Fri. 12:40pm-  1:30pm, VS127 [Nan O'Sullivan]
Stream D: Fri.   1:40pm-  2:30pm, VS127 [Nan O'Sullivan]
Stream E: Fri.   4:40pm-  5:30pm, VS308 [Jason Petty]
Stream F: Fri.   5:40pm-  6:30pm, VS308 [Jason Petty]

Welcome

This is the official blog for CCDN 271: Design Ideas in Context [Design as Inquiry], a second-year required course at The School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington. This course will employ a diversity of critical approaches and themes in the investigation of design as a social, cultural, political, and economic agent, as well as an object, process and act. These themes will be situated within a diversity of scales, including: the individual and personal; social and political; surface and symolic; and collective and swarm. 

This blog will be used as the primary mode of delivering course materials, readings, resources, project briefs, and important updates. It is highly recommend that students follow this blog and regularly reviewing it for new information and instructions. Also, students are encouraged to comment and use this blog as a forum for discussion and debate.

"untitled" Start of the Year Exhibition 2010

As you make your way through the atrium, take a moment to explore the work of past and present School of Design students and faculty. This year's start of year exhibition was developed, curated, and executed by First Year Design Programme Director Lee Gibson.