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Spring 2023: March 28 - May 5.

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  • Week 2: Idea Transfers
    Researching, Enacting and testing ideas, 
    Methods: sketching, mockups, bodystorming, brainstorming, participatory methods, extreme characters, etc

  • Week 3: Stories and users
    How is your work being evaluated? 
    Methods: forms of evaluation, from user-testing to narratives enacting scenariosWeek 4: Play 
    Creating prototypes and confronting them to the 'real world'
    Methods: cultural probes, participatory methods with mockups, cartoon scenarios, acting out an experience, etc
  • Week 4: Stories and users
    How is your work being evaluated? 
    Methods: cultural probes, participatory methods with mockups, cartoon scenarios, acting out an experience, etcforms of evaluation, from user-testing to narratives enacting scenarios

  • Week 5: Production 1
    Independent study week: working on your production assignment and setting your own agenda
    (Exceptional mentorings could be available during this week, although you are mostly on your own)

  • Week 6: Production 2
    Finalising the project 

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    • Live sketching
    • Demo with prototyping
    • Classic Slides presentation
    • etc.

  • Week 2 Presentation requirements:
    Name of group/project
    Knowledge Inquiry
    5 related works
    Lessons learned from the field / probes
    Where do you want to go
    How do you get there (identify roles, needs, actions)

  • Week 5 First cut of video from Production Week
    Delivered by Midnight Sunday 1.05 on Friday 29.04 midday on server
  • Journal/Blog

A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):

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Afternoon:

Week 1
Into the Wild!

Tuesday 28.3

Wednesday 29.3

Thursday 30.3

Friday 31.3

Morning

(starts at 9.00 otherwise noted)



  • Introduction about the module, Note on Documentation

  • Lecture on the topic and discussion (jb)

  • Exercise, part 1: topic and group building (answering questions & themes emerging)
    (jb, nf)

  • Input
    Ethnographic study
    (nf)   

 


  • First impressions /Clustering 
    Sense Making (AEIO)
  • Going back in the field.
    (nf, jb)



Field Research

Afternoon
(starts at 13.00 otherwise noted)


  • Exercise, part 2: topic and group building (clustering by themes)
    (jb, nf)

  • Get prepared for Field Research
    (nf)

  • Renting Equipment
    (nf)

  • Initial Field Research
    • Conduct your first field observation
Field ResearchField Research
  • Group presentations: Inspirations and Field Research (First impressions of 2-3 iterations, narrative over 1.5 days, questions/reflections that drove your choices for the field study) 5-7mn/group
    (jb, nf)     

  • Expectations for the following week

Week 2
Idea Transfers

Tuesday 4.4

Wednesday 5.4

Thursday 6.4

Friday 7.4

Morning

  • Exercise: Very rapid prototyping 
    (jb)
  • Group Presentations:
    mock-ups
    (jb) 

Field Research & Desk-based Research
(Related work, 
References)


Field Research & Desk-based Research
(Related work, 
References)


Holiday

Afternoon

  • Input: Cultural Probes and Exercise
    (jb)


Field Research & Desk-based Research

  • Input: Narrowing Down
    Mentoring (30mn/group)
    (nf)

14.30 Group presentations: Advanced concept, Related Work, References and Detailed inquiry plan for the next 4 weeks 
(jb, nf)

Week 3
Play

Tuesday 11.4

Wednesday 12.4

Thursday 13.4

Friday 14.4

Morning

  • Exercise:  
    Prototyping ideas & Performance enactment / Bodystorming
    (jb)
  • Mentoring
    (30mn/group)
    (jb)

Independent Study


  • Mentoring
    Present prototypes
    (30mn/group)
    (jb)

Independent Study

 - Renting Equipment (see Email  by Nicole  for permission)

Afternoon

  • Mentoring
    (30mn/group)
    (jb)
Independent Study
  • Group presentations on location:
    Prototypes demoes in situation 
    (jb, nf)

Week 4
Stories and Users

Tuesday 19.4

Wednesday 20.4

Thursday 21.4

Friday 22.4

Morning

  • Input: Storytelling & Storyboards
    (nf)

Independent Study


Independent Study

Independent Study


Afternoon

  • Exercise: Storyboards
    indezentindezent (nf)


  • 13 - 15: 00 Mentoring (30mn/group)
    (nf)
  • Group presentations:
    Narratives showcasing prototypes in action & plan for the production week
    (nf, jb)

Week 5
Production 1

Monday 25.04 // Tuesday 26.4

Wednesday 27.4

Thursday 28.4

Friday 29.4


Production Week*

3F18 Reservation photo studio 3F18 in consultation with course service design. See email from Nicole from 11.04 


Production Week


3F18 Reservation photo studio 3F18 in consultation with course service design. See email from Nicole from 11.04 

Production Week

Production Week


  • Mentoring: 
    Editing (nf)

Week 6
Production 2

Tuesday 3.5

Wednesday 4.5

Thursday 4.5

Friday 6.5

Morning

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

Independent Study


  • Mentoring Mentoring on request
    (either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning)
    (30mn/group)
    (jb)Mentoring: Editing by requestEditing (nf)
Independent Study / Documentation prep

Afternoon



  • Mentoring on request (either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday)(30mn/group)
    (jb)
Independent Study
/ Documentation prep
  • Final Group presentations
  • Feedback session
    (jb, nf)

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