- TaSED
- Documentation Kiosk
TaSED
The TaSED (Technology and Sustainable Economic Development) reading group meets this summer on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. at the International House Cafe, at Piedmont and Bancroft (at the southeast corner of campus). See
Matt's TaSED website for previous semesters of TaSED readings.
Readings
- Diffusion of Innovations, 5th edition, by Everett Rogers
To make this reading more tractable, we will be focusing on the case studies and skimming the chapters around them.
- Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, 2nd edition, by Victor Papanek
- This Place on Earth 2002 (contents here) by Northwest Environment Watch
Summer schedule
Meeting 1 (6/15/04)
- Rogers: preface and first five case studies (in chapters 1 and 2)
- Schumacher: Part III, chapters 1 and 2
- Papanek: prefaces and chapter 1 (What is design?)
Meeting 2 (6/22/04)
- Rogers: chapter 1
- Schumacher: Part III, chapters 3 and 4
- Papanek: chapters 2 and 3
Meeting 3 (6/29/04)
- Rogers: chapter 2
- Schumacher: Part I, chapters 1 and 2
- Papanek: chapter 4 (skim) and 5
- (optional) This Place on Earth 2002: "This Place" and "Growth: of What, for What?" (p. IX-9), and "Measuring What Matters" (p. 51-60)
Meeting 4 (7/6/04) (Morgan out of town)
- Rogers: chapter 3
- Schumacher: Part I, chapters 3, 4, and 5
- Papanek: chapter 6 (skim) and 7
Meeting 5 (7/13/04) (Matt out of town)
Same readings as last week
Meeting 6 (7/20/04) (Matt out of town)
- Rogers: chapter 4
- Schumacher: Part II, chapters 1 and 2
- Papanek: chapter 8 and 9
Meeting 7 (7/27/04) (Matt out of town)
- Rogers: chapter 5
- Schumacher: Part II, chapters 3, 4, and 5
- Papanek: chapter 10 and 11
Meeting 8 (8/3/04) (Matt out of town)
- Rogers: chapter 6
- Schumacher: Part IV, chapters 1 and 2
- Papanek: chapter 12
Meeting 9 (8/10/04) (Morgan out of town)
- Rogers: chapter 7
- Schumacher: Part IV, chapters 3, 4, and 5
Meeting 10 (8/17/04) (Matt out of town)
Meeting 11 (8/24/04) (Matt out of town)
- Rogers: chapters 10 and 11
Documentation Kiosk reading group
The Documentation Kiosk reading group meets on Fridays at 3 p.m. at Strada Cafe, on the corner of Bancroft and College (a block west of International House). This group is reading literature related to the Documentation Kiosk research project, but you don't have to be part of that project to join us!
Readings
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails
Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
- "Power, Property, and Poverty: Why De Soto's 'Mystery of Capital' Cannot be Solved" by R. Bromley, in Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia by Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad
- The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
See lecture slides here and here for a summary of the first few chapters
Some readings are online here:
http://dtm.media.mit.edu/dtm/dtm04/dtm04readings.html
Summer schedule
Meeting 1 (6/25/04)
- De Soto: chapter 1 (online here)
- Brown & Duguid: preface and chapter 1
- Norman: preface and chapter 1
Meeting 2 (7/2/04)
- De Soto: chapter 2
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 2
- Norman: chapter 2
Meeting 3 (7/9/04) (Morgan out of town)
- De Soto: chapter 3
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 3
- Norman: chapter 3
Meeting 4 (7/16/04) (Matt out of town)
Same readings as last week
Meeting 5 (7/23/04) (Matt out of town)
- De Soto: chapter 4
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 4
- Norman: chapter 4
Meeting 6 (7/30/04) (Matt out of town)
- De Soto: chapter 5
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 5
- Norman: chapter 5
Meeting 7 (8/6/04)
- Bromley paper
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 6
- Norman: chapter 6
Meeting 8 (8/13/04) (Morgan out of town)
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 7
- Norman: chapter 7
Meeting 9 (8/20/04) (Matt out of town)
- Brown & Duguid: chapter 8
Meeting 10 (8/27/04) (Matt out of town)
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