The aim of this course is to train students to combine humanistic and social scientific literacy with scientific and technological/engineering imagination, and to explore new paradigms of integrated knowledge. In the era of global climate crisis and artificial intelligence, it is necessary to train interdisciplinary professionals who will lead the era of intelligentization/automation, incorporating humanities, artistic imagination, reflective skills, and engineering knowledge essential. Thus, the course is designed to familiarize and train students in a new knowledge paradigm where humanistic, artistic values and imagination converge with engineering and scientific knowledge.

본 교과목은 인문사회과학적 소양을 기반으로 과학기술 및 공학적 상상력을 확장하는 훈련을 통해 새로운 융합지식 패러다임을 탐색하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 특히 인공지능과 로봇 등 지능화·자동화 시대를 선도할 융합형 인재에게 요구되는 인문·예술적 상상력과 비판적 성찰 능력을 함양하고, 이를 공학적 지식과 유기적으로 연결하는 역량을 기르는 데 중점을 둔다.

수강생은 인문·예술적 가치와 창의적 상상력이 공학적 지식과 결합하여 형성되는 새로운 지식 패러다임을 이해하고, 이를 실제 문제 해결과 창의적 설계 과정에 적용하는 훈련을 수행한다. 이를 통해 학문 간 경계를 넘어서는 통합적 사고 능력과 미래 사회가 요구하는 융합적 전문성을 배양하도록 한다.

• Overarching themes: “넘어”(beyond/trans)와 “이후”(after)

- Course resources including readings will be uploaded to PLMS.

- Lecture slides

Weekly plans

Week 1 Orientation and Icebreaking
• Getting to know about the class and classmates
• Who am ‘I’ in the era of artificial intelligent entities? What shall ‘I’ do?

Week 2 Convergence as a sign of transformation

Week 3 Anthropocene I
• Contextualizing technology on historical and global scales
• Reading: “Anthropocene” in [Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow] by Yuval Harari
• How have human beings interacted with other species in ever-changing environment of technoscientific practices?
• In the era of advancing artificial intelligence, where do we as human beings stand?
• What (additional) values can the interplay of humanities and technology add in the age of a global crisis?

Week 4 Anthropocene II

Week 5 Sustainability
• Sustainable convergence as capital
• Why care to integrate/converge?
• At what cost?

Week 6 Sustainable convergence I: Food
• https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/thinking-food-welcome-rise-food-history
• Hungry planet: https://www.menzelphoto.com/portfolio/G0000s3jj73.5TSs
• Assignment: Reflections on sustainable food culture

Week 7 Senses and Living Environment

Week 8 Mid-term period: No class and mid-term assignment

Week 9 Sensible Convergence I: Walking

o Reading: “Tracing a headland” in [Wanderlust: A history of walking] by Rebecca Solnit

Week 10 Sensible Walking
• Final project idea sharing
Week 11 Explore and Speculate: Walk the campus

Week 12 Speculative Futures

Week 13 Human optimus: New Entities and Human Enhancement
• Chimera, Cyborgs, Robots, AI, Gene-edited Babies

Week 14 Co-evolution of Humans and Non-human Entities

Week 15 Final project presentation

Week 16 Final-exam period

Lecture + discussion

기본 랙쳐 시간과 토론과 발표