Introduction to Design Inquiry

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SES #	TOPICS	EXERCISE DUE	READING DUE
1	Introduction / Woodland Cemetery
2	Discuss Objects	1. An Object
3	Discuss Objects
4	Tool Maker’s Paradigm		Reddy
5	Discussion of Infinite Corridor	2. Infinite Corridor	Lyford, Jacobs, Durrell, Mitchell
6	Characteristics of Design		Goodman (Ways), Porter (Logic), Bordwell, Norman
7	Discussion of Replication	3. Replication
8	Reading Strategies
9	Exeter Library Field Trip
10	Discussion of Field Trip	4. Reading a Building: The Exeter Library
11	Discussion of Reading a Building: The Exeter Library
12	Discussion of Reading a Building (Cont.)		Anderson (Volume Zero), Ronner, Porter (Re-reading), Goodman (How Buildings Mean)
13	Discussion of Part 4 of Reading a Building
14	Discussion of Type	5. Type	Vidler, Argan, Moneo, deQuincy
15	Play Silent Game
16	Discuss Silent Game		Habraken, Wittgenstein
17	Discussion of 6.	6. Redesigning the Game
18	The Power of Shape: Guest, George Stiny		Stiny (either)
19	Formal grammar: Guest, Takehiko Nagakura
20	Deterministic and Evolutionary Computation in Design: Guest, Bill Mitchell
21	Discussion of 7: Guest, Takehiko Nagakura	7. Formal Grammar
22	Discussion of 7, Part 2: Guest, Takehiko Nagakura
23	Simulated Evolution, Class Game: Guest, Ben Loomis
24	Evolutionary Grammars: Guest, John Gero		Gero Chapter in Bentley; Gero Web Essay
25	Discussion of 8: Guests, Ben Loomis, Alex Kilian	8. Evolutionary Grammar
26	Optimization - Key to Generative Systems? Guest, John Alex Meaningful Process: Guest, Edith Ackermann		Bachelard, Lakoff, Geertz
27	Music and Rules: Room 4-364		Meyer
28	Discussion of 9. Guests, Edith Ackermann and Terry Knight	9. Meaningful Process
29	Final Discussion	10. Reflections