Observational Practices Lab

Author: Pascal

Practices of Observation
UTNS 5140 — Spring 2020
Syllabus

UTNS 5140 A Transdisciplinary Graduate Class Friday 12:10pm – 2:50pm University Center, Room 601 The New School University Spring 2020

Field School Berlin
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Dec 16-22 2019

A site-based approach to interdisciplinary research, we will engage Berlin as a living laboratory and the subject of critical and…

Practices of Observation
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Publication

The class “Practices of Observation” is part of the University Lecture Program that instigates a transdisciplinary exchange across graduate

Observation Workshops
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week 7-14

Week 7-14: 3/7-5/2 Student-led Workshops to field test experimental observational methods As a workshop-facilitator, you will share a set of…

Stress-testing Observation Scores
week 6

Week 6: 2/28 Stress-testing Observation Scores (Instructions) “The first examples of what were to become Fluxus event scores date back…

Translating Observations
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week 5

Week 5: 2/21 Translating Observations In order to instigate a conversation about the different ways we are looking at the…

Forensic Boards
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week 4

Week 4: 2/14 Configuring Observations (connections, contradictions, rhymes) In-class workshop You have made six observations of the same object: three…

Test Drive
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week 3

Week 3: 2/7 This class explores questions of how observational practices work, what different disciplines might learn from another’s approaches…

The Thingly World
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week 2

Week 2: 1/31 To better understand the very nature of observation each participant will focus on a single object to…

What is a fruit-stand clementine?
week 1

Week 1: 1/24 Introduction This course aims to provoke dialogue about practices of attention and observation, and invent new ways…

Practices of Observation UTNS 5140
Spring 2019 — Syllabus

UTNS 5140 A/ CRN: 7316 Thursday 7:00pm – 9:40pm Eugene Lang 65 W11th, Room 465 The New School University Spring…

OBJECT AMERICA lecture at “Global Control” in Riga
September 2018

Hybrid war, fake-news, post-trough, surveillance, immersion and artificial intelligence – these are just a few of critical

OPL at Cumulus Conference in Paris
April 2018

The Observational Practices Lab will present OBJECT AMERICA at the Cumulus peer-reviewed conference in Paris in April.

The Observational Practices Lab’s Mission
since 2016

The Observational Practices Lab, Parsons School of Design — co-directed by Pascal Glissmann and Selena Kimball — aims to

OBJECT AMERICA @ “Beyond Change” in Basel
March 2018

The Observational Practices Lab will present OBJECT AMERICA at the peer-reviewed conference “Beyond Change” in Basel.

OBJECT AMERICA workshop in Berlin
February 6, 2018

This is the lab’s first workshop situated outside of the US. As an experimental Berlin-based satellite, it serves a platform…

OBJECT AMERICA III
Public Talks
December 1, 2017

Observation through the Speculation. Parsons School of Design, New York Panelists: Anuja Bagul, Benjamin Rubin,

OBJECT AMERICA II
Public Talks
November 3, 2017

Observation through Specialized Instruments. Parsons School of Design, New York Panelists: Sumita Chakravarty, Lisa George, Victoria Hattam, Roarke Menzies, Mara…

OBJECT AMERICA I
Workshop @The New School
October 13/14, 2017

Observation through the Senses. “But what sort of sense is constitutive of this everydayness? Surely this sense includes much that…

OBJECT AMERICA I
Public Talks
October 13, 2017

Observation through the Senses. Parsons School of Design, New York Panelists: Michael J. Barany, Cindi Katz, Fernando Kawai, M.D., Katie…

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