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News Review–Week 7
Tribunal Rejects Beijing’s Claims in South China Sea
- Who has the right/power to judge other countries’ territorial issues?
- Who stand behind Philippines and what’s their purpose?
Pokémon Go Brings Augmented Reality to a Mass Audience
- Is a new way of communication/dating, through virtual reality?
- What’s the impulse behind this popularity, childhood memory, competition or just following the trend?
So Much Student Debt, So Much IgnoranceSo Much Student Debt, So Much Ignorance
- Why the higher education in US is so expensive, especially compare to other countries in the world?
- Is it worth for poor students to carry such amount of debt to afford higher education?
Character Study
In 2036
The First Super Glue
The first Super Glue was an accidental invention during the World War II. The original cyanoacrylates, the chemical name for the glue, were discovered in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for the war. One particular formulation he came up with didn’t work well for gun sights, but worked effectively as an extremely quick boding adhesive. However, this material was quickly rejected by American researchers due to being too sticky.
Nine years later, in 1951, now working at Eastman Kodak, Dr. Coover was the supervisor of a project looking at developing a heat resistant acrylate polymer for jet canopies. His colleague, Fred Joyner, at one point used the rediscovered Super Glue and tested its solidity successfully. This time, Coover recognized the its true commercial potential that would quickly bond to a variety of materials and only needed a little water to activate.
The Super Glue was first sold as a commercial product in 1958 by Eastman Kodak and was called “Eastman #910”, re-named “Super Glue” later. By the 1970s, numerous manufactures of cyanoacrylate glues had popped up, with Eastman Kodak, Loctite, and Permabond accounting for around ¾ of all “Super Glue” sales.
In general, the Super Glue was invented by the same people, twice. It didn’t hit the public market until well after World War II had ended. Dr. Coover didn’t just invent Super Glue, but also held the patents to over 460 other inventions. He also developed a unique “programmed innovation” method which he implemented at Kodak and which resulted in a remarkable 320 new products being developed under his supervision while he was at Kodak. During that span, those products helped raise Kodak’s annual revenue from $1.8 billion to $2.5 billion. He later left Kodak and formed a consulting group that would teach businesses his programmed innovation methods.
News Review–Week 6
Live Footage of Shootings Forces Facebook to Confront New Role
A Start-Up Shies Away From the Gig Economy
- What’s the valuable of just doing cool stuff?
- Is it freelance creating more vitality or instability to a start-up?
Gender Equality Comes to the World of Emoji
- Will this shift of online symbols effluence the real world?
- How does emoji “provide emotional resonance” within communications?
July 11–Reading Review
The Valorized Designer
- What kind of of courses can combine theory with practice?
Towards Relational Design
- Does the Globalization reduce the cultural diversity?
- What’s the effect of “Non-linear” Design?
- Who’s the “end-user”?
If Design’s No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?
- If technology is not much important, what’s the value of designer’s skill?
Notes on Improvisation and Design
- How do we find the balance when consumers will be creates? (co-designer, the new role, how to draw the line)
- What kinds of value are shared with Jazz and design? (rough framework to bring creativity, allow people to play beyond themselves, consistent but freely )
- How to design the frame to guide people to improvise? (rules, characters, interactions)(Jazz: based on participatory methods, require little prior knowledge, judged on deviation from original, evaluated as interactive, creative instability)
- How to deal with the instability, can we accept all results? How to judge?
- How designers inspire the users to do improvisation?
- 4 patterns: involve the audiences, define parameters, no pre-knowledge, accepting all offers
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future
- What’s the feature to design virtual scenarios?
- Computer mades aesthetic choices means personification?
The Future Mundane
- Design the narrative means combine words with images?
News Review–Week 3
News Review–Week 1
J. K. Rowling Just Can’t Let Harry Potter Go
What’s an author to do when she once seemed to be done? Although I’m interested in the next fall movie, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a movie that is both a spinoff and a kind of prequel”. I’m still wondering do we( both author and audiences) need to stop a fantastic story and elaborate world? It’s a truth that series are usually not as good as the former one. And those pressures come from fans will create what influences to the quality or development to the story?
Politicians and the Lies That Matter By Thomas L. Friedman
Americans enjoy talking about politics. They believe the American political system is the best in the world. But it’s also a terrible one. The weakness became obvious during current election. Make a decision between Hilary and Trump, how can it be such ridiculous or boring? Americans don’t have better choices, so they are going to vote either a practical liar or a mindless liar.
Who Is to Blame When a Child Wanders at the Zoo? By KJ Dell’Antonia
Who, if anyone, is to blame when a child wanders away? That question comes from the case of Harambe, the majestic silverback gorilla who was shot on Saturday after a little boy climbed into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. Some children are naturally wildly than others. “Closed doors and barred gates are like beacons to some kids, just waiting to be breached or climbed.” Every time we saw an over naughty child, we tend to blame the family education. But how to judge the mother after she had taken every precaution?
Meet–Week 1
Connections:
- Try to finish each spot on the map at the first time.
- Agree with the educating function of museum.
- The Met has a large number of collections but lacks some peerless work.
Summer Seminar 