Final Triangulation

ShikhaSubramaniam

Graduate Seminar

Tom Klinkowstein

Spring 2016

Gilgamesh

MartinBuber

WalterBenjamin

Last year atmerienbad

SpaceOdyssey

MarshallMcluhan

Wim Crouwel, Jan van Toorn

Steve jobs

JohnMaeda

Brian Eno

Design jobsof the future

Readings in temporal sequence

PersonalExperience

History

Why do we want

to know the history

of anything?

I- It

History

is

monological

I- Thou

But it enables us to have

dialogical interactions with

other people and with our work

History is a narrative

It places us in context

Gilgamesh

MartinBuber

WalterBenjamin

Last year atmerienbad

SpaceOdyssey

MarshallMcluhan

Wim Crouwel, Jan van Toorn

Steve jobs

JohnMaeda

Brian Eno

Design jobsof the future

“It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who �ew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took o� backwards from an air�eld in England. Over France, a few German �ghter planes �ew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes �ew up backwards to join the formation.

The formation �ew backwards over a German city that was in �ames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the �res, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers , and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though, German �ghters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.”

“There is something strikingly di�erent about the quality of photographs of that time. It has nothing to do with age or colour, or the feel of paper. . . . In modern family photographs the camera pretends to circulate like a friend, clicking its shutters at those moments when its subjects have disarranged themselves to present to it those postures which they would like to think of as informal. But in pictures of that time, the camera is still a public and alien eye, faced with which people feel bound either to challenge the intrusion by striking postures of de�ant hilarity, or else to compose their faces, and straighten their shoulders, not always formally, but usually with just that hint of sti�ness which suggests a public face.”

I like to avoid con�ict as much as possible. They say that any friendship or any relationship for that matter needs a healthy amount of con�ict or �ghts, but not for me. I believe that I can be as close to a person as possible without needing to �ght with them.

is enough change for a person to have “changed” ?

“The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Ka�rs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed o� with trinkets.”

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Feb. 2, 1908:

Christopher Nolan’s Doodle bug

Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines:

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:

How much change

Meeting new people

World news

Philosphy

Business

Literature

Inventions

History

Film

Why is it important to know enough about other �elds and subjects?

Why should you be a jack of all trades?