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Title: How ‘How Stuff is Made’ is Made / WritingintheInformationAge
Course number: E90. 1952 – Adv Proj Ditigal Art I / meet with E90.2952 001
Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko
Distinguished Visiting Course Advisor: Colin Beavan aka Noimapactman

Time: Thursday, 08:55AM – 02:15PM
Place: BARN 402

Example Curriculum:
Current classes working on HSIM Madrid:[how architecture is made] London: New York:

Course Structure:
HowStuffisMade is a 6 – 8 week course introducing college level engineering and design students to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions. This course complements introductory engineering and design curricula by providing a dynamic, flexible platform for case-study based content and student-led industry investigations not otherwise included in current engineering and design programs. HSIM modules are applied to / taught within existing semester long classes. Class time is divided between weekly studios and lectures/seminars covering assigned reading (manufacturing site-visits are conducted outside of scheduled class-time).

In Spring 2006, HowStuffisMade will begin distributing a course module to university programs in the San Diego region. National distribution will begin in the Fall of 2006. During the project’s first 5 years HSIM staff will conduct site visits and professional development seminars with selected faculty and administrators from city, state and private institutions. Following this …

Title: Environmental Art Activism and Social Networking Platforms
Course number: E90.1022.01
Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko

Summary:
What to do in the face of a climate crisis? How does the social movement around environmental change coalesce? How do cultural ideas interact with technical, material and economic constraints to develop the movement around new environmentalism? How does the contemporary environmental movement differ from its predecessors? How can we reimagine our relationship to natural systems?

Topics:
Environmental Art Activism, Social Networking, Innovative and Inclusive Design

Projects:
1) Me++: Become an Environmental ImPatient
2) Where++:
3) Them++: HowStuffisMade
4) How++: Environmental Health Clinic: Brown sites
5) When++:

Selected texts:

Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Houghton Mifflin Co, 2007)Link to The Death of Environmentalism

Response by Carl Pope from the Sierra Club, Laura Fauth from AdBusters, and the Climate Progress Blog.

Kate Stohr, Cameron Sinclair, Design Like you Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humantarian Crisis (Metropolis Books, 2006)

Alex Stephen, World Changing (website)

Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland, Animal Innovation (2003).

Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement (Columbia Uninversity Press, 2007)

John Thackara, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (MIT Press, 2006).

Charles Perrow, The …