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TDDE38 Thinking with representations
Resources
Lectures
The lectures broaden the perspective and introduce concepts and exercises.- Lecture 1: Intro
- Guest presentation: Sound representations in design
- Lecture 2: Contextual design and thinking with representations
- Lecture 3: Task analysis
- Lecture 4:
Previous year´s lectures
- Lecture 1: Intro
- Guest presentation: Sound design by Ana Kustrak Korper
- Lecture 2: Design and prototyping
- Lecture 3: Course summary
Group assignment
Some more information about what the groups will be doing during the course can be found here.Individual assignment
A document outlining the individual assignment can be found here.Seminars
Before each seminar you are required to write a short reflection (of no more than 1 A4) that you bring to the seminar. The reflection is written in relation to specific instructions for each seminar, specified in the linked documents below.
After the seminar each student writes an individual text. The texts are uploaded to Lisam.
If you miss a seminar you are required to write 1-2 pages discussing connections between the papers and the group's work.
Below you can find the instructions for each seminar:
- Representations and thinking. This seminar focusses on theories of cognition and its relation to external representation. We will read texts about distributed and situated cognition.
- Representations and learning. Here we will discuss texts from pedagogy, design and cognitive science to explore the role of external representations for learning in various situations.
- Representations and transformation. The final seminar is a look back at the variuos activities during the course and a discussion that centres on how external represenatations facilitate transformative processes like design.
Additional resources
A paper about metaphors:Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980) The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System. In Cognitive Science (4), pp. 195-208. Wiley Online Library. PDF here.
Some slides about metaphors for humans and brains can be found here.
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Last updated: 2020-04-08
