讲师

Terry Knight教授

预修课程：

无。这是一个开给建筑研究理工硕士第一年学生在演算上的课程，不过也开放给其它经过讲师允许，对本课程有兴趣的学生。

课程描述

本课程探讨了设计中的运算之不同本质与实务，我们将会广泛地研究运算与设计。在运算部份包括了以计算机（数字）或人工运算所完成的工作；在设计部份则包括研究设计与概念成品的制作过程，以及这些成品本身。

我们将从隐喻的观点来研究设计与运算的各种不同方法。隐喻是一种强而有力、概念性的工具，能对一个未熟悉、陌生或抽象的经验及知识领域（就说是运算吧）加以组织及思考，而成为自身熟悉且具体的。我们将用到的隐喻观点，主要采用自当代认知语言学家乔治．莱考夫所发展出的隐喻理论。我们也将研究各种不同的隐喻，主要着重在我们在做运算及设计的思考时，所常使用的无意识隐喻。我们要审视这些隐喻去突显、强调、强化某些对于运算及设计之想法，同时却排除了、边缘化其它想法的方式。这些考虑或许可以指引我们在设计里，看待运算的新观点及操作运算的新方式。

这个课程的目标不只在于开拓一种超越技术与工具层次，而观看运算与设计的见解；并且也在发展一套对运算与设计之方法途径和隐喻方式，的批判以及自我觉察。

这个学期的每个课程单元将为期两周。每个单元将探索一个特定的运算主题，并且邀请一位系上的客座讲者，讲者会从他们的专长中挑选一个主题授课，课前阅读与课后分组作业将能帮助我们更深了解所介绍的主题。

评分标准

• 出席率与参与程度。
• 每周的课前阅读与课堂作业的完成满意度。

Instructor

Prof. Terry Knight

Prerequisites

None. This is a required subject for first year SMArchS students in Computation. However, it is open to other interested students with the permission of the instructor.

Description

This subject explores the varied nature and practice of computation in design. We will view computation and design broadly. Computation will include both work done on the computer (digital computing) and by-hand. Design will include both the process of making designs and artifacts, as well as the designs and artifacts themselves.

We will examine different approaches to computation and design from the perspective of metaphor. Metaphor is a powerful, conceptual device for structuring and thinking about an unfamiliar, new, or abstract domain of experience or knowledge (say, computation) in terms of another domain that is more familiar or concrete. The view of metaphor that we will work from is taken from the contemporary theory of metaphor developed by George Lakoff and others. We will examine the different, mostly unconscious metaphors that we use in thinking about and doing computation and design. We will look at the ways these metaphors highlight, emphasize, and enable some ways of thinking about computation and design, while disabling or marginalizing others. These reflections may point us to new ways of seeing and doing computation in design.

The aim of the course is to develop a view of computation and design beyond the specifics of techniques and tools, and a critical, self-awareness of our own approaches and metaphors for computation and design.

The semester will be divided into 2-week modules. Each module will explore a particular computational theme and will include a guest faculty speaker. Speakers will talk on topics specific to their work. Readings and team-based assignments will help us expand on the topics introduced.

Grading

• Class attendance and participation.
• Satisfactory completion of weekly assignments and readings.