IFD:OSI WiSe22

Projektmodul / Project Module
Ontologies for Spatial Interactions
Instructor: Vertr.-Prof. Jason Reizner
Credits: 18 ECTS, 16 SWS
Capacity: max. 12 students
Language: English
Date: Plenum: Tuesdays, 13:30-17:00; Consultations by appointment
Location: Online/Marienstraße 7b
First Meeting: 17 October 2022, 13:30
(More information regarding the first meeting will be sent to accepted participants by email.)
BISON Course ID: [TBA]

Description

A deep relationship with places is as necessary, and perhaps as unavoidable, as close relationships with people; without such relationships human existence, while possible, is bereft of much of its significance.

– Edward Relph, Place and Placelessness, 1976


At the convergence between deep learning, synthetic media, ambient computing and mixed realities, approaches to structuring and implementing physical interactions in platform environments require not only an attention to opaque probabilistic computational processes, but also the ability to identify, articulate and process relational, semantic and epistemological linkages between people, objects, place and space.

Building on discourse from disciplines including environmental social science, geomatics, information science and knowledge engineering, this project module will explore the spectrum between phenomenology and applied ontologies as an extension of human-machine interaction paradigms.

Through a series of lectures, workshops, readings and targeted discussions, participants will address topics including human and artificial intelligence, agent-based systems, detection and prediction methods, spatial interfaces, platform urbanism and smart citizenry, with a view towards creating and documenting a speculative prototype or interactive proof-of-concept.

Admission requirements

Enrollment in MKG/MAD MFA or MediaArchitecture MSc programs, or with instructor permission

Application and registration procedure

Application with CV and Statement of Motivation to jason.reizner [ät] uni-weimar.de

Evaluation

Successful completion of the course is dependent on regular attendance, active participation, completion of assignments and delivery of a relevant semester prototype and documentation. Please refer to the Evaluation Rubric for more details.

Eligible participants

MFA Medienkunst/-gestaltung, MFA Media Art and Design, MSc MediaArchitecture candidates

Platforms and Tools

This Wiki
BigBlueButton (only as necessary)
Cisco WebEx
Are.na
MURAL
Miro
Google Jamboard

Literature

Gieseking, Jen and Mangold, William, eds.
The People, Place and Space Reader
2014

Barns, Sarah
Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities
2020

Costa, Simone et al.
"A Core Ontology on the Human-Computer Interaction Phenomenon"
2022

Gabrys, Jennifer
Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet
2016

Gehmann, Ulrich and Reiche, Martin, eds.
Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of the World
2014

Haraway, Donna
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
1988

Kitchin, Rob and Dodge, Martin
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
2011

Krippendorf, Klaus
The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design
2006

Lippard, Lucy
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicultural Society
1997

Nusselder, André
Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
2006

Relph, Edward
Place and Placelessness
1976

Ropolyi, Laszlo
"Virtuality and Reality: Toward a Representation Ontology"
2016

Sa, Cristina
"Toward an Ontology of the Interface"
2017

Semy, Salim et al.
"Ontology Engineering: An Application Perspective"
2004

Stanley, Sue and Wise, Sue
Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology
1993

Virilio, Paul
The Lost Dimension
1991

Yahya, Manal and Dahanayake, Ajantha
"Augmented Reality for Human Needs: An Ontology"
2021

Syllabus (subject to change)

18 October 2022 / Week 1
Introduction
Course Organization
Administrative Housekeeping

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25 October 2022 / Week 2
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1 November 2022 / Week 3
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8 November 2022 / Week 4
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15 November 2022 / Week 5
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22 November 2022 / Week 6
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29 November 2022 / Week 7
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6 December 2022 / Week 8
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13 December 2022 / Week 9
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20 December 2022 / Week 10
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10 January 2023 / Week 11
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17 January 2023 / Week 12
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24 January 2023 / Week 13
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31 January 2023 / Week 14
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