Lecture 5

In the first half of the lecture Greg and Diego came and spoke about their exchange to Carnegie Mellon University. I found this very interesting because it related to my essay topic. They had to take courses outside of the design field and therefore were required to work with people in different disciplines. They said how they found it really interesting and it showed them a different point of view. They also talked about one class where they with a diverse group of people and there were quite a few arguments about the different perspectives. In the lecture they showed the work that they had done there, what the school was like, and talked about the experience of the exchange. This is something I hadn’t really thought about. I don't think that I would want to go for under graduate study but I would defiantly consider it for post graduate study.

In the second part of the lecture Luke talked about net working. About when the ideas started, living within a net worked society, culture being networked. About collaboration through networking, and how a whole lot of separate things networked becomes one thing, lots of people net worked together become one movement of people. The whole also becomes more valuable than the total value of the individual pieces. “1+1=3”. He talked about how a network can be used. It can create new ideas through collaborative work and through things like open source programs/designs. He talked about Negative Land and there unorthodox use of the networked media to gain publicly. He then gave lots other examples and types of networks and looked at how they have affected culture and the different ways in which people look at them.