Using the reading Tania assigned you as a starting place (see below), you will create a 1000-word opinion piece that reacts to the ideas in that article. Think about how the article as a whole, or some topic within it, is arguing for, or against, design in transition.

A constraint to this assignment: You may not use the phrase “I think” nor any variation of that phrase.

See this overview of writing a critical essay.

• Drossscape by Alan Berger (Landscape Urbanism)
• Mapping Social Messes in Elsewhere Mapping (Cartographies)
• Why Problems Like Homelessness might be easier to solve than manage (Malcolm Gladwell)
• Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital by Robert Putnam
• Clutter, Writing and Design by Steven Baker in Emigre, vol 35, 1995
• What is Digital Cinema? by Lev Manovitch
• Play Anything by Ian Bogost (Adapted Essay from his book, Play Anything)
• Introduction to Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
• The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial by Herb Simon
• Design Ethics and Technological Mediation by Peter Paul Verbeek
• Critical Design Ethnography by Sasha A. Barab, et. al.
• Practicing Collaboration in Design by Sharon Poggenpohl