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Course Location
Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory
ITLL 1B50

Course Time
Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00pm - 5:15 pm

Designing the Information Society of
the New Millennium

CSCI 4830 - CSCI 7000 - DSPL 7686 - ENVD 4352

Spring Semester 2000
Schedule (PDF)
Week Date Description
Week 1 January 17, 2000 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
January 19, 2000 E. Arias/ G. Fischer: "General Introduction"

Assignment 1: the Website of L3D, MIT-Media Lab and Stanford Learning Lab (due: Mo, 1/24)
Associated Reading: Ehn, P. (1998) "Manifesto for a Digital Bauhaus," Digital Creativity, 9(4), pp. 207-216.

Assignment 2: Transcending the Individual Human Mind paper (due: Wed, 2/26)
Week 2 January 24, 2000 G. Fischer: Research Themes and Research Centers in "Technology, Arts, and Media" for the Information Society of the New Millennium

E. Arias / G. Fischer: Brief Discussion of Books and Articles
January 26, 2000 G. Fischer: "The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC): A specific example of the Integration between Technology, Arts and Media"

Reading: Arias, E. G., Eden, H., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., & Scharff, E. (2000): "Transcending the Individual Human Mind—Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design," Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, (to appear). Available at: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi99.pdf

Assignment 3: SIMCITY paper (due for web posting: 2/2).

Assignment 4: Design and Planning (due for web posting: 2/7)
Week 3 January 31, 2000 EDC-Team — L3D Lab Visit: Presentation and Discussion about the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC)
February 2, 2000 E. Arias: "Participation"

Assignment 3: due on Web site

Readings:

Arias et al. (1999). "Beyond Access: Informed Participation and Empowerment," In Proceedings of Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL ’99). At:
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/EDC/pdf/cscl99.pdf

Arias, E. G. (1996) "Bottom-up Neighbourhood Revitalization." Urban Studies Journal Special Issue, Vol. 33, No. 10, 1831-1848. (handout)
Week 4 February 7, 2000 E. Arias: "Planning and Learning Tools"

Assignment 4 due on Web site
Play and discussion of assignment 3

COSCO: The water and children’s project (Eric Scharff and Lian Liu)

Visit sites at:

http://www.simcity.com/home.shtml
http://www.simcity.com/3000/3000.html
http://www.simcity.com/sitemap.html

Assignment 5: Gift-Wrapping paper (due: 2/14)

Assignment 6: Consumer/Designer paper (due: 2/21) 
February 9, 2000 E. Arias: "The Nature of Design and Planning"

Discussion of papers from assignment 4

Readings:

  1. H. Rittel and M. Weber "Planning Problems are Wicked Problems," in Cross Developments in Design Methodology, 135-144 (handout)
  2. B. Harris, "Planning Technologies and Planning Theories," in S. Mandelbaum et al., Explorations in Planning Theory, 483-496. (handout)
Week 5 February 14, 2000 G. Fischer: Beyond "Gift-Wrapping"

Slides

Readings:
Fischer, G. (1996) Making Learning a Part of Life — Beyond the "Gift Wrapping Approach to Technology, at http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/presentations/gf-wlf/
February 16, 2000 Guest lecture: Agentsheets / Dynasite

for Agentsheets see: http://www.agentsheets.com/

for Dynasite see: http://Seed.cs.colorado.edu/dynasites.Documentation.fcgi$node=dynasites.doc.home
Week 6 February 21, 2000 G. Fischer: Open, Evolvable Systems

Slides

Readings:
Fischer, G. (1998) "Beyond 'Couch Potatoes': From Consumers to Designers." In IEEE (Ed.) 1998 Asia-Pacific Computer and Human Interaction, APCHI'98, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 2-9.

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/apchi-98.pdf
February 23, 2000 G. Fischer: Open Source

Readings:

O’Reilly, T. (1999) "Lessons from Open Source Software Development," Communications of the ACM, 42(4), pp. 33-37. and additional contribution Linus Torvalds (Linux), Larry Wall (Perl), Roy Fielding (Apache), and John Ousterhout (Tcl scripting language)
available: http://www.acm.org/dl/

Eric Raymond: at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/

  • "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
  • "Homesteading the Noosphere"
Week 7 February 28, 2000 Guest lecture by Jonathan Ostwald: Dynasite

for Dynasite see: http://Seed.cs.colorado.edu/dynasites.Documentation.fcgi$node=dynasites.doc.home
March 1, 2000 G. Fischer: Seeding, Evolutionary Growth, Reseeding

Reading:
Fischer, G. (1998) "Seeding, Evolutionary Growth and Reseeding: Constructing, Capturing and Evolving Knowledge in Domain-Oriented Design Environments," Automated Software Engineering, 5(4), pp. 447-464. Available at:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/final-journal-sept30-97.pdf
Week 8 March 6, 2000 E.Arias: "Seeking Parallels: The Behavior-Environment and The Human-Computer Interactions"

Readings:
H. Gans, "The Potential Environment and the Effective Environment," in People and Plans. 4-11
March 8, 2000 E.Arias: "Community and Organization"

Readings:
selected readings from E. Arias, ed. The Meaning and Use of Housing to be announced.
Week 9 March 13, 2000 E.Arias: "Notion of Sustainability"

Readings:
selected readings from E. Arias, ed. The Meaning and Use of Housing to be announced.
March 15, 2000 E. Arias: Discussion of Projects; their relationship and importance for the course
Week 10 March 20, 2000 Guest Lecture: Communities in the New Millennium :
  1. Jim Marsden – HP – Business Performance Manager, virtual and real communities
  2. Bruce Swinehart – Director of The Boulder County Healthy Communities Initiative (BCHCI)
  3. Will Toor – Mayor, City of Boulder and Director of CU Environmental Center
  4. Mark McCaffrey – The Boulder Area Sustainability Initiative Network (BASIN)

Sites to visit in preparation:

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/

http://csf.colorado.edu/bcwatershed/

http://www.ci.boulder.co.us/
March 22, 2000 "Augmented Reality: Enriching the Physical World and Craft Materials with Computation" (E. Arias, G. Fischer, G. Blauvelt and T. Wrensch)
Week 11 March 27-31, 2000: SPRING BREAK
Week 12 April 3, 2000 Simon, H. A. (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial, (Third ed.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

(Michael Webster, Taro Adachi, Bradley Crysel, Lu Fan, Arianne Hinds, Huda Khan)
April 5, 2000 Negroponte, N. (1996) Being Digital, Vintage Books.

(Anne Chang, Daniel Perez, Chris Sanchez, Kelly Bourke)
Week 13 April 10, 2000 Lynch, K. (1960) The Image of the City. Cambridge: The MIT Press

(Nelson Carpentier, Shane Church, Craig Morrison, Scott Posch)
April 12, 2000 Progress Reports of Projects (short presentations of project groups)
Week 14 April 17, 2000 Mitchell, Wm. (1996) City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn. Cambridge: The MIT Press

(James Davidson, Arjune Mirchandani, Jeffrey Rose)
April 19, 2000 Schön, D; Sanyal, B.; and Mitchell, Wm. (eds.) (1998) High Technologies and Low Income Communities. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

(Gabe Johnson, Lian Liu, Aaron Martin, Leo Burd, Michele Payton)
Week 15 April 24, 2000 Guest Lecture: "The Atlas Program at CU and the TAM Certificate: Education for the 21st century " (Diane Sieber, Bobby Schnabel and other TAM course instructors from CU)
April 26, 2000 Postman, N. (1993) Technopoly — The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Vintage Books, New York.

(Eric Dick, Scott Linemeyer, Anthony Ressler, Kirsten Davis, Julie Schenk, Troy Weingart)
Week 16 May 1, 2000 Final Project Presentation
May 3, 2000 Final Project Presentation