TOPIC: Embodied Fabrication (or Data Driven OrthesisOrtheses)
Course description and overview to be filled in here. The course proposes an examination and speculation of technologies as they related to Embodied Interaction : mobile computing, wearable interfaces, location-based interactions and digital fabrication...
This examination covers societal, ethical and social influences.
This year, the course puts an emphasis on 'Embodied Fabrication', where digital fabrication is approached from the perspective of embodiment.
With more flexible and more accessible modes of fabrication, and with social aspects of fabrication emerging in recent years, we have the opportunity to investigate ways that we can transform our physical selves and environments.
During this module, we'll uncover some of these possibilities by designing and informing body orthotics with personal data.
Topics may include:
• material intimacy
• processes of fabrication / physical interactions that impact digital fabrication
• wearability
• performative aspects
Research questions:
What does interaction Design bring to the topic of Digital Fabrication?
How can the theory of embodied interaction influence digital fabrication processes?
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- Kickoff Project
- Final Project and Presentation
- Documentation
- Attendance during lessons
Contents
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Use Data-Colection, Generative Design Methods and Digital Fabrication to create a Data Driven Orthesis.
- What drives the design? (example: is it function, speculation or critique)
- Where could the data come from? (example: wearable sensors)
- What metaphor could you use?
- What inspires the form making process (example: fungus, cell division, mathematical geometry,…)
Pressenataion Format: Exihibition of Experiments and Final Protypes together with a verbal pressenation.
Presentation on: 14.12.2017
Documenation Format: PDF
Groups of three Students
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