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5240

5240 builds on 4240 by focusing on the post-graduation possibilities for implementing social change at scale. In contrast to the 4240 syllabus, it focuses more on organization strategies and how they interact with public good questions. This means that in parallel with the work in the undergraduate version of the class, which aims to sharpen individual understanding of design strategies, graduate students will also be imagining organizational and entrepreneureal models of how to execute designs.

Readings:

These readings are to be done in addition to the 4240 readings on the Schedule page.

Module 1:

• Srnicek: Platform Capitalism Intro-Chap 1

Module 2:

• Srnicek: Platform Capitalism Chap 2-3

Module 3:

• Hess Technology- and Product- Oriented Movements.
• Scholz Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy.

Additional Material:

• von Hippel Democratizing Innovation

Module 4:

• Costanza-Chock 2020. Design justice: community-led practices to build the worlds we need. Design Sites chapter.
• Rey-Mazón et al. Public Lab: Community-Based Approaches to Urban and Environmental Health and Justice.

Module 5:

• Dunbar-Hester ‘Glamorous Factories of Unpredictable Freedom’: Care, Coalition, and Hacking Hacking.

Assignments

Rather than separate workbooks, this year 5240 students will take small quizzes on the extra readings, opened on the last day of the module, due three days later. These quizzes are open-text and do not time out.

Additional Graduate Level Learning Outcomes:

In addition to the learning objectives outlined on this page, the 5240 version of the course aims to achieve these learning outcomes:

• Name and describe a range of organizational structures and approaches
• Match organizational structures with their capabilities for executing different aspects and scales of social change
• Identify which designs and organizational structures are compatible or complementary with different technology designs
• Creatively imagine new organizational structures for designing social change

5000-level Texts

Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. The MIT Press, 2020. newcatalog.library.cornell.edu, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2371493.

Dunbar-Hester, Christina. “‘Glamorous Factories of Unpredictable Freedom’: Care, Coalition, and Hacking Hacking.” Produsing Theory, Volume 3, Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 105–20.

Hess, David J. “Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements: Approximating Social Movement Studies and Science and Technology Studies.” Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 30, no. 4, Autumn 2005, pp. 515–35. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25046621.

Rey-Mazón, Pablo, et al. “Public Lab: Community-Based Approaches to Urban and Environmental Health and Justice.” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 24, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 971–97. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0059-8.

Scholz, T. Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy. Rosaluxemburg Stiftung, New York. 2016.

Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism. 1 edition, Polity, 2016.