Summer 2004 reading groups
  1. TaSED
  2. Documentation Kiosk

TaSED

The TaSED (Technology and Sustainable Economic Development) reading group meets this summer on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. at the International House Cafe, at Piedmont and Bancroft (at the southeast corner of campus). See Matt's TaSED website for previous semesters of TaSED readings.

Readings

  1. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th edition, by Everett Rogers
      To make this reading more tractable, we will be focusing on the case studies and skimming the chapters around them.
  2. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
  3. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, 2nd edition, by Victor Papanek
  4. This Place on Earth 2002 (contents here) by Northwest Environment Watch

Summer schedule

Meeting 1 (6/15/04)

Meeting 2 (6/22/04)

Meeting 3 (6/29/04)

Meeting 4 (7/6/04) (Morgan out of town)

Meeting 5 (7/13/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 6 (7/20/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 7 (7/27/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 8 (8/3/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 9 (8/10/04) (Morgan out of town)

Meeting 10 (8/17/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 11 (8/24/04) (Matt out of town)

Documentation Kiosk reading group

The Documentation Kiosk reading group meets on Fridays at 3 p.m. at Strada Cafe, on the corner of Bancroft and College (a block west of International House). This group is reading literature related to the Documentation Kiosk research project, but you don't have to be part of that project to join us!

Readings

  1. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
  2. "Power, Property, and Poverty: Why De Soto's 'Mystery of Capital' Cannot be Solved" by R. Bromley, in Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia by Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad
  3. The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
  4. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
      See lecture slides here and here for a summary of the first few chapters
Some readings are online here: http://dtm.media.mit.edu/dtm/dtm04/dtm04readings.html

Summer schedule

Meeting 1 (6/25/04)

Meeting 2 (7/2/04)

Meeting 3 (7/9/04) (Morgan out of town)

Meeting 4 (7/16/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 5 (7/23/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 6 (7/30/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 7 (8/6/04)

Meeting 8 (8/13/04) (Morgan out of town)

Meeting 9 (8/20/04) (Matt out of town)

Meeting 10 (8/27/04) (Matt out of town)