Spring 2000, TAM Course "Designing the Information Society of the Next Millennium" — Ernesto Arias and Gerhard Fischer

Assignment 1

due: January 24, 2000 (postings on the Website)

 

A. Visit the Website of the Center for Lifelong Learning & Design (L3D) at

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/

Your tasks:

  1. Explore it!
  2. For the Website itself:
  3. what is good about it
  4. what is bad about it?
  5. what is missing from it? any ideas for improvement?
  6. Content of the Website:
  7. which ideas/projects did you find most intersting?
  8. where do you see relatonships between the themes on the site and the course?

 

 

B. explore briefly the following websites:

  1. the MIT Media Lab: http://www.media.mit.edu/ à specifically the research section
  2. the Stanford Learning Lab: http://learninglab.stanford.edu/index.shtml
  3. Malmö University’s School of Art and Communication: http://www.kk.mah.se/

Compare these sites and research themes with the L3D site

 

C. Compare these sites with the contents and objectives of the paper:

Ehn, P. (1998) "Manifesto for a Digital Bauhaus," Digital Creativity, 9(4), pp. 207-216.