Timeline,+Winter+2015

Rough Timeline for Appropriate Technology, Design, Winter 2015 - Activities subject to change. Please check 48 hours before class.

__Jan 5,__ Monday: Personal Introductions, Introduction of Focus Groups, prepare for Red Tag Shop Test
 * __Week 1__ **

__Jan 7,__ Wednesday: Creativity. Please see these videos: [|TED: Gever Tulley], [|IDEO, Rapid Prototyping] Also, please create an account for this wikispaces website with username: "firstname_lastname", such as mine: Pete_Schwartz. Then enter your name on the main class website by one or more projects you're interested in and do some research. You should be prepared to state something that you learned and/or are interested in.

__ **Week** **2** __ __Jan 12,__ Monday: We hope to define focus groups please read [|Lauren Wilcox: Tech Design], Schumacher: // in class: // The design process, then forming groups Begin Intervention #1 - Don't throw anything away for a week. Shop this week is NOT in the Hangar. Please note below where the Bonderson Shop is for shop this week.

__Jan 14,__ Wednesday: Decision Matrices, divergent and convergent engineering.

Don't Throw Anything Away! and long your week long saga on our Self Intervention Webpage

We will likely close the Tuesday morning shop section. Would this adversely affect you?

Please read: The projects in the last two years of this class: __ Appropriate Technology For The World's People: Design, Winter 2014 __ Appropriate Technology for the World's People: Design: Winter 2013 as well as the projects for this past fall's theoretical class: Development, Fall 2014

[] make sure you read the last three paragraphs Please read Bill Gates Drinks Poop Extract //in class:// How we make a decision,... and lie to ourselves. Confirmation Bias

By midnight, Sunday night, Jan 18: Establish your group's website, complete with a picture of your group having fun.

__ **Week** **3** __ __Jan 19__, Monday no class __Jan 20__, Tuesday, Cal Poly follows a Monday Schedule, Shop after class. Read about Takachar: http://takachar.strikingly.com/. 1) See the video with great music. 2) Go to the blog and read the "lessons from the field", which are accessible from the links at left. In particular Lesson from the field 1, and Lesson from the field 2 3) Plan what your group is going to do during shop. We have an activity for the first hour.

End Intervention #1 - What can we do with all this stuff?

__Jan 21__, Wednesday, visit my house. Watch videos about "Our Natural Capital": my house Story of Stuff

Thursday, Jan 22: There is an upcycling workshop at SLO MakerSpace

__ **Week** **4: Who are we Designing for?** __ __Jan 26__, Monday See Paul Polak's Talk: [] Who is Paul Polak? and What book did he write? What was his original career?: Paul Polak Wikipedia See the video here and know Paul's 12 Steps? Do you agree with all of them? Paul Polak's 12 steps Paul Polak's "Don't Bother Trilogy": Do you agree with them? Are there others you may think of?: Paul Polak's "Don't Bother Trilogy" Please read this statement about appropriate technology and see the video below it if you like. Please answer the question: Why is appropriate technology dead? (in Paul Polak's Opinion), and do YOU think Appropriate Technology is dead?: Appropriate Technology is Dead? Lastly, please consider: "How is your project consistent or not consistent with Paul Polak's philosophy?" More on Paul Polak: See his discussion in Seoul. Unless you are fluent in Korean, you may want to just listen to Paul's answers at 2:45, 7:00, and 9:40. [|Paul Polak Digital Forum Seoul]

__Jan 28__, Wednesday Just one reading: Bill Gates' $1000 toilet so you can have more time to prepare your 2 Minute Presentation on your project Please include (if appropriate): 1) Problem statement 2) Brief Description of the People and Area you are addressing. 3) Some constraints and/or resources that pertain to the implementation. 4) A design matrix

UN Development Goals: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml

Website update due Sunday night, midnight, Feb. 1:
 * Problem statement and constraints
 * Decision matrix decision matrix template
 * Description of your target community
 * Research you've done
 * Your efforts in shop and what you've made - see last year's websites for inspiration.
 * Any other update
 * Pictures of your group - with names and contact information if you're willing to share it

__ **Week** **5** __ **Design/Development Firms** Feb 2, Monday Read [|how D-Rev is changing the game] and reaching new audiences Watch MASS's campaign "[|Beyond the Buildings]"

Feb 4, Tuesday: Products HEY!!! The questions from the quarter's quizzes has been posted. Link is on the main page. Watch [] on design medical solutions Read: [|Why Finnish babies sleep in boxes] Be familiar but don't stress the details on: [|Clean cookstove models:] and [|water purification designs] For those of you interested in women's health, specifically menstrual and feminine care, check out this cool article that came out today (Tuesday, Feb 3rd) on [|Upworthy]

__ **Week** __ **6 Fail Early, Fail Often** Feb 9, Monday Read [|Fail Early, Fail Often] and []

Feb 11, Wednesday: Read why so many times (Kind of a heavy text but there are only a few pages so do your best!) Also consider: d efine second self intervention – do you want to do it as a group?

__ **Week** **7** __ Feb 16, Monday - No Class, No Monday Shop BUT - Please Consider taking the (it's not today, but you can think about it today). The *POWERS* indicate that this will make you more employable and you can __**//win money//**__ (Oh, it's our society's carrot, no?)... So please check out the link and see if it makes you happier.

By Tuesday night, midnight: post your moderate fidelity prototype on your website! We will be looking for it.

Feb 18, Wednesday - Acceptance of Change

//**Roger comes to class to talk.**//

[|5 steps of grieving: Kübler-Ross model] Pete adds talk about Happiness: [] Read about [|Bhutan's Happiness index] Read Read See second half of Video on Jevon’s Paradox __ [] __ Professor Laura Hoseman promotes her Spring glass Roger's Email: rogersburton@gmail.com

__ **Week** **8** __Roger's Email: rogersburton@gmail.com

Feb 23, Monday Please do a google search for "Hand Pump Sustainability" and see what you come up with. Please watch this video: EWB_Failure_restructuring Visit from Pamela Crane-Hoover, Director of Programs at [|Lifewater] Post second intervention before midnight on intervention page.

Pamela from LifeWater's Email: pcrane@lifewater.org

Feb 25, Wednesday. Class at the __ Student Experimental Farm __ Read: __[|Peace, Security, Development and the Environment]__ Please guess what % of the US national budget goes to foreign aid, then please read [|NPR's article about it]



Pramod Parajuli's Visit

__** Week ** ** 9 **__ March 2, Monday Guest discussion facilitated by Pramod Parajuli, please see flyer above.

March 5, Wednesday: Application of Applied Technology Second Presentations / design reviews Read: [] and [|http://www.ssireview.org/pdf/2006SU_feature_Voelcker.pdf]

__ **Week** **10** __ March 9, Monday: Work on final presentations Read [|this] and be prepared to answer the question "can design save the world?" If that link doesn't work copy and past this url: [|http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/16/little-packages]

March 11, Wednesday: Final written exam in class

__**Finals Week**__ Potluck and Final Presentation: Wednesday 4-7 PM