===== Men & Machines | About Functionality =====
Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Sunday, September 4, 2016, 9:00 am – 11:40 am 

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=== Foreword ===
  * Attendance ( Who else is on the Waiting List?)
  * Prof Craig Protzel will be present during seminar on Thursday 
  * Introducing the //Design PodLuck// (Rebecca Pittam talks about filming/documenting your project)
  * Layout for Essay 1
  * Questions?

=== List of topics ===
  * Introduction to //Scribble Techniques// (PDF => NYU classes)
  * Presentation of concepts and conceptual drawings
  * Instructor and group feedback

=== Links ===
  * http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/manus-x-machina
  * https://youtu.be/5RGl5ZXnoIs (Bob Pott's mechanical sculptures)
  * http://www.feld.is/projects/perpetual-storytelling-apparatus/ (Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus)
  * [[https://www.google.ae/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juliusvonbismarck.com%2Fworks%2Ftopshothelmet%2Fmodel.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjuliusvonbismarck.com%2Fbank%2Findex.php%3F%2Fprojects%2Ftopshot-helmet%2F&docid=wKzKeGVOa0cF3M&tbnid=urmpG9mxcE27XM%3A&w=500&h=667&client=safari&bih=1089&biw=1920&ved=0ahUKEwjAg5CFh_XOAhXmIcAKHVo_ARoQMwhaKCUwJQ&iact=mrc&uact=8|Julius von Bismarck Top Shot Helmet]]

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=== Homework ===

**1. Read the following chapters from the Otl Aicher book:**\\
Hans Gugelot (p. 66 ff.),\\
The non-use-able useful item (p. 113),\\
The World as Design (p. 179 ff.)

**2. Write Essay 1 – Understanding the Technical World**

//Deadline for Rewrite: September 24//

Choose a recent (max 1 year old) news story in a popular national or international news source concerning novel technology. Your assignment is to read the news article and then prepare an analytical in-class presentation that you will give.

The presentation should:
a) summarise the article
b) evaluate the news story from technical, rhetorical and sociological points of view. Please include the merit and shortcomings the story has and the possible impact the topic in the article have on society. You should close your essay with an outlook into the future and
c.) ideate new use-cases for this technology.

Attachment: text document (max of 1200 -1500 words) named according to the following template: essay1_YourFirstName_YourLastName.txt and containing a Header with your complete Name, and Student number

Your essay should use the format defined by the Modern Language Association: http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/format.htm