[Artful-Design] DSN100: new Stanford Continuing Studies course

[Ge Wang]

Dear all,

This Fall I will be teaching an online Stanford Continuing Studies 
course, DSN100 Artful Design: How We Shape Technology and How Technology 
Shapes Us.  It will be six weeks (starting in October), with 
lectures/discussions every Thursday 5-6:50pm PT, and we will be using 
/Artful Design/ as our textbook.  This is an opportunity to to come 
together for a focused exploration into artful design, technology, and 
society.  No prior experience is necessary and, as an online course, it 
will be open across time zones.  The tuition fee is $360.

Learn more | enroll:
   https://artful.design/dsn100/
   https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/detail/20201_DSN-100

Course Description:
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“At this point in history, our lives and freedom depend largely upon the 
skill and imagination and courage of our managers and engineers.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, /Player Piano/ (1952)

Why do we shape technology? What does it mean to do it well, to do it 
artfully and ethically? How might we fashion tools that lead to richer 
and more meaningful forms of life? In this course, we will unpack the 
role of design in human life and consider artful design as a 
multi-disciplinary fusion of engineering, philosophy, ethics, and art. 
Its underlying ethos: rather than relying on a deficits-model in which 
we figure out what is missing and design to fill that need, we aim to 
fashion tools that help us flourish, and flourish together.

Topics will include the design (and implications of) tools, social 
media, toys, games, laws and public policies (yes, they can be artfully 
designed, too!) and artificial intelligence systems with humans in the 
loop.  We will examine how we design these things and how they, in turn, 
shape our society and ourselves. Through this course, students will 
learn to more clearly and critically view our technology-drenched human 
world—and to exercise their ethical and artful imagination in search of 
a gentler one.
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Stay safe, healthy, artful,
Ge!

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Ge Wang
Associate Professor
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music (also Computer Science, by Courtesy)
Stanford University
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!
-- what we make, makes us --
https://artful.design/
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