This document provides an overview of intervention design, which blends media theory, cultural and design theory, and design practice. It discusses key thinkers and works in these areas from Marshall McLuhan to Jaron Lanier. The goal of intervention design is to understand how media and technology impact the world and design interventions for an accelerating world. Students will maintain blogs, write exams, construct manifestos, and design interventions both individually and in groups. They will learn about intervention design theory and work with design partners. The assignment is for students to define design, designers, and their roles. More information can be found at the provided website.

1. intervention design: an introduction

2. write, think, draw, think again

3. mike monteiro (mule): how designers destroyed the world

4. chen wenling - what you see might not be real (2009)

5. marshall mcluhan: walking backwards into the future

6. <<understanding media>> (1964)

7. 7buchla synthesizer (1963) by don buchla & morton subotnick

8. roland synthesizer sh-3 (1973)

9. apple macintosh (1984)

10. iMac (1998)

11. 11jaron lanier (1960) in ‘who owns the future?’ (2013): I miss the future

12. 12andrew keen (1960): ‘why the internet is not the answer’ (2015)

13. 13evgeny morozov (1984): ‘to save everything, click here’ (2013)

14. 14douglas rushkoff (1961): ‘present shock: when everything happens now’ (2015)

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19. triodos bank: ’we live in a wonderful time’

20. in Playboy (1969)
‘The computer thus holds out the
promise of a technologically
engendered state of universal
understanding and unity, a state
of absorption in the logos that
could knit mankind into one
family and create a perpetuity of
collective harmony and peace.’
the electronic age

21. narcissus narcosis

22. mcluhan’s advice: don’t drown in the media mahlström

23. observe, take distance, find patterns

24. nick land: accelerationism, paper: <<meltdown>> (1996)
williams & srnicek - accelerate manifesto (2010)

25. nick land in docu ‘visions of heaven and hell’ (1994)

26. “artists should embrace
the essence of capitalist
culture and start creating
meaning again”
sort of recap

27. ‘design is every activity that changes
our perception of the world by
creating (new) meaning.’
definition of design by neue

28. ‘using and combining theory of design,
media and culture, design practice
and your own vision as a designer to
come up with design for the
accelerating world’
intervention design in a nutshell

29. you
world
society
your role as designer

30. praxis
you
theory
three disciplines blended together

31. roger weldam, gregor wintgens + theo ploeg

32. what are we going to do?
* media theory: understanding the world
and the impact of media & technology (roger)
* cultural & design theory: understanding
design in the broadest sense of the word
and constructing your own identity as a
designer (theo)
* design practice: learn how to design for
the new world (gregor, theo)
* design an intervention (you, in duo’s)

33. and you?
* maintain a blog to give insight in your
thinking and design process.
* do a writen exam to show your skills
as a theorist.
* construct a manifest to show your
personal vision as a designer.
* design an intervention (alone or with
others).

34. personal manifest by rachel van der hulst

35. persona’s?

36. f**k them (for now)!

37. intervention design model

38. design theory: mcluhan, dorst, monterio+ others

39. partner in design: bureau europa, maastricht

40. philospher rené gabriels about design

41. assignment! back at 1pm
• what is design?
• what is a designer?
• what is the role of design?
• what is the role of a designer?

42. info: www.buroneue.net/interventiondesign