Session 8 — Models of local practice I

Day 2 · 60 minutes

At a glance

Reading: Loukissas, Chapter 6, Models of Local Practice, pp. 161–188
Output: Design principles

Close reading

Chapter 6, Models of Local Practice (Loukissas 2019, 161–88). Session 9 reads the same chapter from a different angle.

We read this text together in the session.

Reading summary

Loukissas turns the book’s principles into practical models. He argues that data are indexes to local knowledge. Good data practice should therefore show the setting around the data. The chapter uses design, art, and activist projects to show ways of making place, difference, context, and hidden assumptions visible.

In class

Students identify the practical lessons in the examples. They discuss which lessons are useful for Data Design + Art.

Output

A set of design principles.

Session 9 — Models of local practice II applies these principles to your own dataset.

Close reading

Reading summary

In class

Output

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