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The course proposes an examination and speculation of technologies as they related to Embodied Interaction (ie. 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 methods are approached from the perspective of embodiment.
With more flexible and more accessible modes of fabrication and of generative design, and with interactive aspects of fabrication materiality and biodesign 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 our bodily environment increasingly influenced by data tracking. By group work, you'll propose interactive forms of body extension/representation/mirror/sense.
Design factors have to include:
• material intimacyintimacy 
• processes of fabrication 
• data tracking & mapping / generative design
• wearability or extension or external or sensorial apparatus
• performative aspects
• interactive components
• political / environmental / societal context

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Your work will encounter some of these research questions: (to review)

• What does interaction Design bring to the topic of Digital Fabrication? 

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• Kickoff Exercise: Analogue Data Collection 

  Look for sources of your personal body data in the real world. What traces do we leave behind that give us indications about our movements, vital signs or emotions? 
  Be aware of the data you're collecting without intention. Or are you currently collecting data intentionally? 

  Record videos or take photos to indicate and attempt to extract the data or reflect on it. 

  Represent that data in a performative way. 

  Presentation/performance: max 2 minutes 

  Individual work
  

• Weekly progress reviews

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• Booklet 1st concept, prototype & inspirations
  Friday Workshop
  
  
  • Tutorials for scraping Instagram, scraping Tinder, using database from Google Location History in kml format in Processing, using Real Time location with GYROSC, and using socket.io with localhost.run to connect web sockets are here::: Tutorials_scraping_gps_and_more_avt.pdf
    
• Weekly progress reviews
  
  
• Booklet 1st concept, prototype & inspirations
  
  
• Final Project and Presentation: Interactive embodied fabricated apparatus
  

  Use Data-Collection, Generative Design Methods and Digital Fabrication to create an interactive body apparatus (wearable, fashion item, prosthesis, orthesis, prosthetics, implant, extension, external apparatus, architecture, etc).

  Questions to consider in your process:

  • What drives the design? (example: is it functional, speculation or critique)
  • Where could the data come from? (example: sensors)
  • How do you map the data to a geometry? (example: using a metaphor) 
  • Or is the form making process inspired by existing models? (example: fungus, cell division, mathematical geometry,…)
  • What is the fabrication process? 

  
  

  In groups of four or five students 
  
  

• Presentation Format: Exhibition of Experiments & Performance with Final Prototypes together with an oral presentation.

  Presentation on: 22.12.22
  
  

• Documentation 
  
  
  •  A 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the course. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):
    • The journal should be structured in a generally comprehensible manner
    • The lecture notes, including annotations, are stored
    • Notes, sketches for each lesson should be included as well
      
      
  • Final Documentation per usual guidelines: hi-res pics, PDF with text, video documentation (see Wiki)

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