Schedule
Course Times and Locations
All class meetings will take place in 7 Bristo Square (building next to Potterow). We will be based in Room 1.203. However, this room will be undergoing refurbishment in the first week of semester, so we will have to use two other rooms during that week.
| Wednesdays | 9:00–10:50 |
| Fridays | 10:00–12:00 |
| Wednesday, 13th January 2016 | 7 Bristo Square, Lecture Theatre 5 |
| Friday, 15th January 2016 | 7 Bristo Square, Lecture Theatre 1 |
| Wednesday, 23rd March 2016 | 7 Bristo Square, Lecture Theatre 4 (G.15) |
| All other class meetings | 7 Bristo Square, Room 1.203 |
Course Schedule
Unlike many standard pre-Honours courses at the University, Data, Design and Society (DDS) will be organised around team-based projects. The project work will be broken down into five phases, which are indicated in the table below. The structure of the projects is described in more detail in the Project Overview.
| Week | Phase | Date | Topic | Materials | Do before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13-Jan-2016 | Course Overview | Slides | ||
| 15-Jan-2016 | Investigating food issues | Slides Heeren Slides Waheed Slides | |||
| 2 | 20-Jan-2016 | Design thinking in the field | Slides Magill Slides | Design Video Double Diamond overview | |
| 22-Jan-2016 | Research ethics | Slides | |||
| 3 | 27-Jan-2016 | Fieldwork | |||
| 29-Jan-2016 | Team presentations | Slides | |||
| 4 | 03-Feb-2016 | Intro to Data & Focus Groups | Slides 1 Slides 2 FG guidance FG checklist Moderator guidance | ||
| 05-Feb-2016 | Data management with DataStore & team tutorials | Slides Form Templates DataStore Instructions | |||
| 5 | 10-Feb-2016 | Preparing for the Slow Hack; ISM and Models of Social Change | Slides Journey Slides | ||
| 12-Feb-2016 | Focus group findings | Slides FG Analysis Guide | |||
| 19-Feb-2016 | Innovative Learning Week | ||||
| 6 | 24-Feb-2016 | Participatory Design | Class PD Activity | ||
| 26-Feb-2016 | Finding and using existing data | Slides | |||
| 7 | 2-Mar-2016 | Data Visualisation | Slides Anatomy of a Graphic | ||
| 4-Mar-2016 | Tutorials / Data surgeries | Slides | PD Methods PD Prep Questions | ||
| 8 | 09-Mar-2016 | Data Visualisation and Advocacy | Slides | Visualising Information for Advocacy | |
| 11-Mar-2016 | Tutorials / Data surgeries | Slides | |||
| 9 | 16-Mar-2016 | Dry-run presentations, peer feedback | |||
| 18-Mar-2016 | Dry-run presentations, peer feedback | ||||
| 10 | 23-Mar-2016 | Final Team Presentations | |||
| 25-Mar-2016 | Briefing on Final Report | Slides |