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DES 3364 - What should or could (scholarly) knowledge look like in the 21st century? A Knowledge Design Seminar

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
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Description: This Humanities Studio course will be run by the metaLAB (at) Harvard team. It will explore the shapes and forms that experimental scholarship is assuming in an array of arts and humanities disciplines, from media studies to digital humanities to cultural analytics. It will also explore emergent models of knowledge production and publication within and across media. Open to advanced undergrad and graduate students, and to students from the Graduate School of Design.

STU 1601 - Robots In & Out of Buildings

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017
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New forms of mobility are currently being developed for the transport of people and goods. From autonomous container ships and trucks, to autonomous buses and cars, to autonomous aerial and land drones, transportation and logistics are being reformulated. New forms of intelligent motion are already beginning to reshape urban, suburban, and rural environments. But little thought is being devoted to how buildings, their circulation and envelopes, and their interconnection to the urban landscape will be transformed by the proliferation of robotic agents whose electric drive trains allow them to... Read more about STU 1601 - Robots In & Out of Buildings

ROM-STD 201 - Questions of Theory

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017
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The seminar is built around a sequence of fundamental questions regarding the literary disciplines, their history and epistemology. Discussions are instigated by readings in philology, stylistics, the history of ideas, semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, film theory, genetic criticism, literary sociology, cultural studies, and digital humanities.