# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/assessments/): Four pieces of work, each testing a different module — an ethnography, an essay, a design project, and showing up with your fieldwork.
- [Final Project — the Counter-Fridge](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/assessments/counter-fridge/): A reconstruction proposal — spatial design, art installation, or behavioural experiment — that refuses the argument of this course, and defends the refusal
- [Assessment 2 - Critical Essay](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/assessments/critical-essay/): Apply the course's theory to one fridge-related phenomenon — and then tell me what the course gets wrong about it
- [Assessment 1 - Fridge Ethnography](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/assessments/fridge-ethnography/): Observe one real refrigerator as a micro-sociological site and read it as governed space — Module 2's method, applied to a kitchen you have access to
- [Participation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/assessments/participation/): Ten per cent for arriving with the thing the tutorial needs — because this seminar runs on your kitchen, not on the reading
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/): Weekly two-hour lectures: the week's claim, the evidence behind it, and the reading that carries it. Each one sets up Wednesday's tutorial.
- [The birth of artificial cold: from the ice trade to Freon](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-01/): How cold stopped being a season and became a purchasable commodity — and what that did to human perception of time
- [The totem of modernity: advertising, gender and the second shift](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-02/): Technology promised to liberate the housewife. It raised the standard instead, and bound her more tightly to the kitchen.
- [The terminal of the global supply chain: the erasure of locality](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-03/): Your fridge is the last mile of a planetary system. Chilean cherries, Norwegian salmon, and the carbon behind the cold chain.
- [Who holds the right to refrigerate?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-04/): Procurement, distribution and spatial politics — how the vertical space inside a fridge maps onto the power hierarchy of a household
- [The semiotics of leftovers: frugality and the boundaries of disgust](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-05/): Why the same food is "meal prep" in a glass container and "dangerous leftovers" in a knotted plastic bag
- [The fridge door as curatorial space: memory, performance, identity](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-06/): Magnets, children's drawings, expired coupons and travel souvenirs — the household's external performance, staged on an appliance
- [The tyranny of labels: deconstructing best before and use by](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-07/): Two labels, a blurred line, and a food industry that manufactures safety anxiety to accelerate turnover and evade responsibility
- [The illusion of preservation and systemic waste](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-08/): Bauman's liquid modernity, the sense of security the fridge sells, and the astonishing household waste that security produces
- [Hoarding and doomsday psychology: the stuffed fridge as emotional solace](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-09/): Why an empty fridge triggers existential anxiety, and how food hoarding works as a defence against a sense of lost control
- [Smart fridges and surveillance capitalism](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-10/): Internal cameras, auto-ordering and healthy-eating suggestions — the kitchen as a new terminal for household data collection
- [The de-refrigerator movement and alternative food networks](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-11/): Eco-Marxism, degrowth, community fridges and the revival of fermentation — is there an antidote to the fortress?
- [Final presentations and the unplugged celebration](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/lectures/week-12/): Fifteen minutes of summary, then the projects — and a picnic that requires no refrigeration at all
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/people/): Two convenors, teaching in two registers.
- [Dr Casper Nowak](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/people/casper-nowak/): Co-convenor, teaching weeks 7–9. Their research is on household food-waste measurement and the psychology of stockpiling — the evidence behind the course's central claim.
- [Dr Simone Ravel](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/people/simone-ravel/): Convenor of the course, and of its first, third and fourth modules. Her research is on the material culture of domestic storage — pantries, larders, and the household knowledge that mechanical cooling made unnecessary.
- [Policies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/policies/): Fieldwork ethics, food safety, attendance, extensions and academic integrity — the rules this course runs on.
- [Blind tasting: is freshness real?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/01-artificial-cold/): Fresh, three days refrigerated, and freeze-dried — taste all three without knowing which is which, then argue about what "fresh" means
- [Decoding the advertisement](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/02-second-shift/): A visual semiotics workshop on refrigerator advertising, 1950–1980 — who is operating the fridge, and what is the white enamel saying?
- [The food mileage map](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/03-cold-chains/): Photograph the three most off-season things in your fridge, then reverse-track where they came from and what it cost to bring them
- [Fridge archaeology](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/04-fridge-archaeology/): Bring the interior of your own fridge and we will draw the power map together — authority zones, marginal zones, and the tragedy of the commons
- [The debate: who owns the food in a shared fridge?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/05-leftovers/): A structured ethical debate on a share-house dispute — ownership, hygiene boundaries, and the contract nobody wrote down
- [Dual curation: the fridge door and the feed](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/06-fridge-door/): Compare the two surfaces you curate for other people — one physical and semi-private, one digital and public. They are not saying the same thing.
- [Label forensics](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/07-date-labels/): Bring 5–10 confusing date labels, work out what the regulations actually require, and draft an honest label to replace each one
- [Personal waste audit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/08-systemic-waste/): Record everything you throw out for a week, then cost it in money and calories. The illusory fortress, itemised.
- [Psychological mapping: the ideal fridge and the anxious fridge](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/09-stockpiling/): Draw the fridge you want and the fridge you have when things are bad, then ask what you were actually buying
- [Design the dystopia](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/10-smart-fridge/): Build the most exploitative smart fridge you can imagine, in groups, and then take your own design apart
- [Fermentation and sharing workshop](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/11-de-refrigeration/): Make a quick pickle with your hands, or design the rules for a community pantry — preservation that does not need a plug
- [Final pitches and the unplugged picnic](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-leahylin/sessions/12-unplugged/): Present your reconstruction proposal, then eat a meal that never needed a fridge — the argument, in embodied form