Comments for Michael Shanks

Comment on design and behavior by designing for change? – Michael Shanks

designing for change? – Michael Shanks — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:25:24 +0000

[...] Human centered design has emerged through closer attention being paid to the way people get on with things – use, interaction, experiences of artifacts and their associations. This has mostly involved a focus upon psychological factors, ranging from ergonomics and ease of use, to the character of communicative interaction between people and things. The premise, implicit or explicit, is that what really matters in understanding people’s actions are these immediate experiences of perception, cognition and interaction with the material world – what should be called behavior, in contrast to action or practice, concepts that include broader factors such as agency and intentionality, and the ways that people reflect upon their own behavior. See my comments on a previous run of the class – [Link] [...]

Comment on Olivier – Le sombre abîme du temps by In theory: the death of literature – Michael Shanks

In theory: the death of literature – Michael Shanks — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:05:31 +0000

[...] recent comments on the new translation of Laurent Olivier’s wonderful Sombre Abîme du Temps [Link], and my own forthcoming book The Archaeological Imagination [...]

Comment on Design, RES and RESPUBLICA by Heritage as design (continued) – Michael Shanks

Heritage as design (continued) – Michael Shanks — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:08:01 +0000

[...] pragmatics at the heart of design thinking, drawing upon ethnography and interpretive science [Link], is the means to pursue this [...]

Comment on artereality by Heritage as design (continued) – Michael Shanks

Heritage as design (continued) – Michael Shanks — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:07:45 +0000

[...] What makes this such a fascinating and powerful prospect is that INCIPIT is making a claim to be object-oriented, to stretch somewhat that term as it applies to software design. What I mean is that the research methodology is not taken directly from a disciplinary field such as sociology or economics, investigating, foe example, the relationship of heritage to class and demography, or analyzing the economic value of heritage sites in tourism. Instead, INCIPIT is setting out to bring together researchers, students and communities in collaborative application to actual cases of the (co-)construction of heritage “objects” – knowledges, experiences, sites, artifacts. Instead of research tasks and procedures that have their immediate origin in disciplinary methodology, INCIPIT is focused on heritage objects – practices, relationships, artifacts, representations – that collectively structure this transdisciplinary field. Practice as research [Link]. [...]

Comment on Humanities – their value by hybrid Humanities – Ben Cullen – Michael Shanks

hybrid Humanities – Ben Cullen – Michael Shanks — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:23:38 +0000

[...] its study – see my recent entry on declining numbers of students in the Humanities – [Link] also, more generally [Link]. Too many want to retrench the Humanities in letters and the arts, in [...]

Comment on Ruin memories by Socialism in Ruins | Assemblages

Socialism in Ruins | Assemblages — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:43:43 +0000

[...] See Ruin memories – Michael Shanks. [...]

Comment on elements of a theory of ruin by Alain Schnapp and Michael Shanks’ elements of a theory of ruin | On R U I N S: Love and Fear, Memory and Void

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:05:20 +0000

[...] a look to this interesting distillation of Vectors. This entry was posted in Events. Bookmark the permalink. ← Festival of St [...]

Comment on the politics of design – the “T Character” revisited by presence and authenticity – routes to civility – Michael Shanks

presence and authenticity – routes to civility – Michael Shanks — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:40:54 +0000

[...] production in a way that we haven’t seen for a long while. As I was recently commenting [link], the values at the heart of this human-centered design ultimately come down to relationships [...]

Comment on Beamish – quiddities by heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks

heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:56:20 +0000

[...] Textures of everyday life? An interior at Beamish Museum of the Living North [Link] [Link] [...]

Comment on Revs Program at Stanford by heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks

heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:51:28 +0000

[...] in London was established to inspire industrial design. In our Revs Program at Stanford [Link] and [Link] we aim, within the context of our engineering and design schools, to create a car museum that is [...]

Comment on Archaeological project design by heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks

heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:51:10 +0000

[...] as the Faro Convention (Council of Europe 2005) (see the entries last year in this blog [Link] and [Link]), that are shifting attention to sharing and disseminating cultural assets, as much as protecting [...]

Comment on landscape aesthetics – tactics (continued) by landscape aesthetics – the politics (continued) – Michael Shanks

landscape aesthetics – the politics (continued) – Michael Shanks — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:50:19 +0000

[...] I will take up this question in another post [Link] [...]

Comment on landscape aesthetics – the politics (continued) by landscape aesthetics and the ideology of pleasure – Michael Shanks

landscape aesthetics and the ideology of pleasure – Michael Shanks — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:48:56 +0000

[...] More thoughts to follow … [Link] [...]

Comment on Design, RES and RESPUBLICA by the politics of design – the “T Character” revisited – Michael Shanks

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:56:34 +0000

[...] summer, at EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) in Tokyo [Link], I suggested that we should think of the things we design as … assemblages, bundles of [...]

Comment on heritage design – aspiration and redemption by cultural values – media and heritage – Michael Shanks

cultural values – media and heritage – Michael Shanks — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:36:49 +0000

[...] [Link] – a report on our conversation with Campbell. [...]

Comment on FARO – heritage futures by heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks

heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:54:49 +0000

[...] such as the Faro Convention (Council of Europe 2005) (see the entries last year in this blog [Link] and [Link]), that are shifting attention to sharing and disseminating cultural assets, as much as [...]

Comment on cultural values – media and heritage by heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks

heritage design – aspiration and redemption – Michael Shanks — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:54:32 +0000

[...] (This is the report on our previously noted visit – [Link]) [...]

Comment on Revs Program at Stanford by Humanities – their value – Michael Shanks

Humanities – their value – Michael Shanks — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:35:08 +0000

[...] year we are launching classes in our Revs Program [Link] – bridging the arts, humanities, social sciences and engineering using automobility – [...]

Comment on artereality by the value of the Humanities – Michael Shanks

the value of the Humanities – Michael Shanks — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:55:12 +0000

[...] [Link] – Artereality – on the arts in the University – from Steven Madoff’s collection. [...]

Comment on the politics of design – the “T Character” revisited by the value of the Humanities – Michael Shanks

the value of the Humanities – Michael Shanks — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:54 +0000

[...] I just unpacked in a recent post [Link] – real issues are messy and don’t fit into disciplines – and every one that [...]