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Spring 2021: March 30 - May 7.

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This course is project-based and will allow students to have a hands-on experience.
Organised in groups, students will develop innovative design concept for a product, a service or an experience. 

Topic

Systemic changes - who / what is at the center?

This year, the topic for this class addresses the typical design premice of interaction designers' wishes to have a societal impact. People-centered design is at the core of interaction design studies and human-computer interaction research. What does this premice actually mean? What are the limitations, frustrations, realities of designing on the ground? What if we should move away from a human-centric design to a non-human one? The class proposes to look at proposal of changes not in term of individual behaviours but addressing if systemic changes can happen from a design proposal. We will also uncover the contradictions of a designer's responsibility, agency and idealisation. 
For this course, each group of students will engage designing in a social context that they will identify and they will argue for their intervention, in conjunction with working with people (or non-people) involved on the ground.

During the course the student will learn:

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Field Research

 

Holiday

Holiday

Mentoring: Editing
(nf)

Week 1
Into the Wild!

Tuesday 2430.3

Wednesday 2531.3

Thursday 261.34

Friday 272.34

Morning

(starts at 9.30 15 otherwise noted)



  • Introduction about the module, Note on Documentation

  • Lecture on the topic and discussion (jb)
  • Exercise, part 1: topic and group building
    (jb, nf)
  • 10.00 impressions of first field research
  • 10.30 Clustering and Going back in the field.
    Sense Making (AEIO)
    ( (jb)

  • Exercise, part 1: topic and group building
    (jb, nf)

Field Research

 


Field Research


Holiday

Afternoon
(starts at 13.00 otherwise noted)


  • Exercise, part 2: topic and group building
    (jb, nf)
  • Ethnographic study
    and     Get prepared for
    for     Field Research
    (nf)   
  • About Equipment
    (nf)

Field Research

  • Group presentations: Inspirations and Field Research
    (jb, nf)
  • Expectations for the following week
  • Narrowing DownClustering and Going back in the field.
    Sense Making (AEIO)
    (nf) 
  • Expectations for the following week

Week 2
Idea Transfers

Tuesday 31 6.34

Wednesday 1 7.4

Thursday 2 8.4

Friday 3 9.4

Morning

  • Exercise: Very rapid prototyping
  • Group Presentations:
    mock-ups
    (jb) 
Field Research 		and Desk-based Research
(Related work, 
state of the art
  • Input: Cultural Probes and Exercise
    (jb)


Field Research




Field Research

Afternoon

  • Exercise: Bodystorming
    (jb)

Desk-based Research 
(Related work, 
state of the art)

Input: Cultural Probes and Exercise
(jb		Field Research and Desk-based Research
(Related work, 
state of the art)
  • Group presentations: Advanced concept, Related Work and User-study plan for the next 4 weeks 
    (jb, nf)

Week 3
Play

Tuesday 7 13.4

Wednesday 8 14.4

Thursday 9 15.4

Friday 10 16.4

Morning

  • Exercise: Prototyping Ideas
    (jb)
  • Mentoring 
    (20mn/group)
    (jb)


Independent Field Study

Independent Field Study

Afternoon

Independent Field Study
  • Mentoring 
    (20mn/group)
    (jb)
15.00 Independent Field Study
  • Group presentations:
    Advanced Prototypes
    (jb)

Week 4
Stories and Users

Tuesday 14 20.4

Wednesday 15 21.4

Thursday 16 22.4

Friday 17 23.4

Morning

  • Input: Storytelling
  • Exercise: Performance enactment
    (jb)

Independent Field Study

Independent Field Study


Independent Field Study

Afternoon

  • Input: Storyboards
    (nf)
  • 15.00 Mentoring 
    (20mn/group)
    (jb)
  • Group presentations:
    Storytelling
    (jb, nf)

Week 5
Production 1

Tuesday 21 27 .4

Wednesday 22 28.4

Thursday 23 29.4

Friday 24 30.4


Production Week


Production Week

 

Production Week

Production Week


Week 6
Production 2

Tuesday 28 4.45

Wednesday 29 5.45

Thursday 30 6.45

Friday 1 7.5

Morning

  • Group presentations:
    Back from the production week: recount of what was made & achieved during the week
    (jb)

Independent Field Study

Independent Study

Afternoon

14.00
  • Final Group presentations
  • Feedback session
    (jb, nf)

Afternoon

  • Mentoring: Editing
    (nf)
Finish Documentation

JB: Dr. Joëlle Bitton, NF: Nicole Foesterl

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