Design and the Digital Humanities

Introduction Selling the Value of Design The Epistemological Modes of Knowledge Production Change is scary i) Territory of Possible Engagements ii) Moving the Goalposts What expertise looks like i) Who are Designers? ii) Who are the Digital Humanists? iii) What Expertise in Collaboration Looks Like EXERCISES: Meaning Creating understanding Defining DH i) What do Digital Humanists Do? Defining design i) Is There Such Thing As Good Design? If So, What Is It? ii) Why Design Matters iii) Critical Design iv) What do Designers Do? What is Publishable Case study 1: how design students define themselves EXERCISES: Form and text Misunderstandings Terms from DH i) Text Encoding ii) Structured Data iii) Federated Data iv) Linked Data: A Brief Historical Foray into the Memex Terms from Design i) Sketches Types of sketches ii) Three Forms of User-Centered Design iii) Design Thinking iv) Reframing v) Gestalt Claim Games i) Research ii) Projects and Research Projects iii) Image iv) Text v) Prototypes vi) Metaphors and Other Figures of Speech vii) Iteration Case study: what's a book? EXERCISES: Collections and territories Meeting points Humanities visualization i) Why Graphical Representation? ii) Rich Prospect Browsing iii) Proposing New RPB Principles and Tools Principle of Participation Principle of Association Principle of Contexuality Principle of Pluralism iv) A Critical Challenge to the Power Embedded in Prospect and Refuge Case studies: DH-based visualizations created by undergraduate design students i) BigSee ii) Structured Surfaces iii) Results iv) What We’d Change Case studies: Decision Support Systems i) Descriptive Reflections ii) Design Z (Gears) iii) Design A+1 (Bars & Sliders) iv) Design B (Lines & Dots) v) Analytical Reflection vi) Feminist RPB in Manufacturing DSS vii) Critical Reflection Using Feminist HCI viii) Reflection Using a Critical Design Framework EXERCISES: Data visualization and interface design Working better together: interdisciplinary research in practice Developing interdisciplinary researchers i) Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Researchers ii) Masters-Level Interdisciplinary Researchers iii) PhD-Level Interdisciplinary Researchers iv) Resource Needs v) Critical Non-Tangibles What is Respectable? Project management for interdisciplinary researchers i) Ways of Collaborating ii) Delegation vs Collaboration iii) Cross Disciplinary Lessons Learned Managing people who are sensitive to their surroundings i) Designers as Paramecium Tenacity, or Sticking it Out Repetition: Same Shit, Different Pile Comparison: One Person’s Poison is Another Person’s Nutrient Community: A World of Paramecia Changing the World From Bad to Worse: What if the Choice is Between Greater Poison and Lesser Poison? From Good to Better: Choosing Among Nutrients Discontinuity, or Sudden Death Unanticipated Side-Effects Reality Check: Taking a Few Roughs with a Smooth Case study: Interdisciplinary research project charter i) The Project Charter ii) Most Recent Additions and Considerations EXERCISES: Planning Our Journey Continues From the Digital to the Physical Design for Peace and Reconciliation Collaborative Design Concepts Lab Final thoughts EXERCISES: Intellectual territories