Upcoming research tutorials in the SoAD library

Take advantage of these tutorials to sharpen your research skills and to help you produce a successful research paper. All sessions listed below will be held in the SoAD library. 

Upcoming tutorials: 

Finding journal articles

3pm Tuesday and Wednesday [1st and 2nd June]

11am Thursday [3rd June]

Tutorials next week:

Referencing 11am Tuesday and Wednesday [8th and 9the June]

3pm Wednesday and Thursday [9th and 10th June]

Tips for writing a research paper

For more writing guides explore the materials under the Briefs + Tools page of this blog or the SoAD 'R-Drive' folder for CCDN271.

Digital recordings of lectures--USE FIREFOX

If you are having trouble playing the digitally recorded 271 lectures (linked from the blog) try using firefox. There seems to be difficulties with playing the lectures through internet explorer on the SoAD computers.

No Tutorials on Friday, 28 May

There will be no tutorials on Friday this week. However, it is highly suggested that if you would like one-on-one guidance for your research paper or personalised feedback on your abstract (assignment 1) please use this time to make an appointment with your tutor or the course coordinator.

Test 2: this week, Wed. 26 May LT1 + LT2

Don't forget! Test 2 on Wed. this week, starting at 11:30am in LT1 + LT2. Bring your notes and study aids. Good luck!!

Review notes for Test 2

Work through this presentation and prepare answers (and questions) for tomorrow's review in the tutorial streams.

The Test 2 review notes can also be found on the "briefs + tools" page.

Steven Johnson: The Web and the city

Watch this short Tedtalks for a closer and contextualised look at the role of emergence in complex social systems.

Slime mould!!

For more on this week's theme of Emergence, click here. 

Assignment 2: brief

The project brief for Assignment 2 is available here.

Week 11: Morphogenesis

This week we enter a new scale: the collective and the swarm. In keeping with this theme we will explore bottom-up design processes and the concept of 'morphogenesis'. This week's reading (above) is a primary text, in other words a historic text, from 1966 that introduces many of the core elements of design discourse in this area today. Please read it carefully and keep in mind its historical context. In addition to the reading above, please watch the Manuel DeLanda lecture (below) on the use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture. This lecture nicely articulates many aspects of this week's theme and pulls a number of the issues covered in the assigned reading into twenty-first century design discourse.

Walter Benjamin and the "loss" of aura

If you have not yet read Walter Benjamin's seminal essay (1935) "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," please take some time to work through this exceptional text. It is lengthy so perhaps focus on the first half to begin with (essay below). Also, this summary of the article may prove helpful as well, follow link here.

E-baroque and Steampunk

For more background on this week's topic, visit The Steampunk Workshop and the wikipedia entry for Steampunk; also of interest, explore the 'history' of the Telelectroscope