An introduction to picturebook design and research. Evaluating the educational, cultural, social and economic impact of children's books and interactive electronic storybooks. Overview of projects in relation to language development. Understanding how picturebooks work. Analysis of multilingual, multicultural, experimental, creative, postmodern books.

Examines how architects, artists, filmmakers and urban planners conceive the identity of cities. Indeed, the current debates on gentrification and resistance thereto call for a more refined understanding of the processes in the re-imagination and transformation of modern cities. This course will explore historical and recent debates on the city and modernity, public space, disasters and ruins, museums, virtual cities, and marketing strategies. Readings and visual material ranging from paintings, photographs, films, grafitti art, installations, architecture and design will be discussed. The focus will be on European cities such as London, Berlin, Marseilles, Rome and Istanbul.

Student projects focusing on conceptualization, planning and execution of a production cycle in a medium that student chooses to work on (e.g. television, video, documentary, web, animation, video gaming, advertising).

Topics will be announced when offered.

Review of descriptive statistics and basic research methodology. Experimental methods and research design including, research and publication ethics, one-way analyses, factorial designs, repeated measures, analysis of covariance, and the analyses of main effects, simple effects and interaction comparisons.

Explores a variety of philosophical traditions and critical approaches towards technology and design and their relationship to society. The ubiquity of mobile and wireless communication technologies necessitates questioning the premise of the neutrality of technology, design and their relationship with modernity. The course will review the following approaches to technology: critical theory, existentialism, autonomous Marxism, feminist theory and cybernetics. Works of Norbert Weiner, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Jacques Ellul, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, Judy Wacjman, and other theorists will be discussed.

Fundamentals of architecture and representation of information. The journey from data to information with regards to relation, grouping, hierarchy as well as the mental information processing. Forming, representing and visualizing the information for different types of media. Case studies such as instructional design, time-series, spatio-temporal data, comparison, big data. Exploration of tangible, gestural, device based interaction with the information.

Improvement of usability test skills analyzing each steps. Planning usability tests, specifying persona and user groups, preparing test materials, conducting test, compiling and analyzing data, and creating design guidelines.

Topics will be announced when offered.