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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? 

• How can the theory of embodied interaction influence digital fabrication processes? 

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• Define your own meaning of an interaction that is 'embodied'
• How does that translate with materials?
• What are the possible interactive experiences with materials?
• What tools/technology can be used to facilitate this process? 
• How can data be materialised in physical form? Can the data be understood, or is it a purely aesthetic output?
• In what ways does material influence the perception of data?
• How is digital fabrication influencing embodied interaction?

Expectations and Gradings

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Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  

Deliverables & Workshops

• 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? 
  Is there a type of data that reveals something specific about your life, your interactions with your environment? Can a short sample offer a complex reflection?
  Your survey has to comprehend at least 6 hours of tracking and showcase a complex aspect of your entangled life (beyond a specific quantity tracking). 
  Think of questions you want to answer before you start tracking.

  
  

  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 - you can invite the audience to take part, use props, etc

  Individual work
  
  

• Thursday Workshop 17.11
  
  
  • 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
  • Sending Data from and to Arduino using https://www.shiftr.io/
    
    
• Workshop Tuesday 22.11
  • Data in Processing
  • 3D in Processing and exporting into .obj for 3D printing
    
    

• 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? 
  • What does your body extension connect with the surrounding environment?
  • What does it embody?
  • What meanings does it create?

  
  

  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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