[PRL] [Fwd: Yanni A. Loukissas] LECTURE NEXT WEEK: The Classroom as Complex Adaptive System

[Matthias Felleisen]

I will have to be in PVD. If someone goes there, I'd like a report. 
Thanks -- Matthias


On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Mitchell Wand wrote:

> I thought some of us might find this interesting.  --Mitch
>
>
> From: "Yanni A. Loukissas" <yanni at MIT.EDU>
> Date: October 15, 2004 3:37:28 PM EDT
> To: seminars at csail.MIT.EDU
> Cc: Subject: LECTURE NEXT WEEK: The Classroom as Complex Adaptive 
> System
>
>
> All are invited to this talk next week at the Department of 
> Architecture
> in the Computation Group Lecture Series:
>
> The Classroom as Complex Adaptive System
> A systems-modeling approach to teaching computational design
>
> Simon Greenwold
> Lecturer
> School of Architecture, Yale University
>
> Tuesday, October 19th
> 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
> Room 7-431 (AVT)
>
> Abstract:
> The problem is well-recognized: How do we teach our students both the 
> minute
> technique of computational design and its broad theory and history at 
> the same
> time? An introductory class has good reason to try to do both so that 
> its
> lessons stand a chance of being of use to student investigations. I 
> will be
> presenting questions and results from two semesters of teaching 
> computational
> design at the Yale School of Architecture. Students were asked to 
> identify and
> model systems from the world around them that demonstrated a quality of
> interest. They were to analyze the system, produce a working model of 
> the
> system that demonstrated the production of that quality, and then 
> proceed to a
> design that professed the same quality. Results exceeded expectations. 
> This
> talk's loose framework should permit such hortatory sidebars as An 
> Appeal for
> Hybridity, No tools!, Over-production/Under-evaluation, Nothing-in 
> Boring-out,
> Representation is Everything, and Last Year's Most Dangerous Book.
>
> Simon Greenwold describes himself as an MIT Architecture school 
> dropout who
> proceeded to the MIT Media Media Lab to study spatial human-computer
> interaction (projects viewable at acg.media.mit.edu/people/simong). He 
> then
> taught computational design at the Yale School of Architecture. He 
> currently
> works at The Mathworks in Natick MA, designing graphical languages for 
> systems
> engineers to prototype, simulate, and implement their ideas.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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