Lecturers:
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Guest inputs:
Luke Franzke
Lucy Dukes
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Office hours by appointment
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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 (3-4 students max), you'll propose interactive forms of body extension/representation/mirror/sense.
Design factors have to should include:
• material intimacy
• 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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- In-class Exercises, Performances & Weekly progress reviews (bring iterated prototype/sketches/experiments for each mentoring)
- Mid-Class Delivery: Booklet concept, prototype & inspirations
PDF featuring texts and visuals: Overall Concept, Main directions, Inspirations/Related Work (references, authors, dates, visuals) Material inquiries, and Prototype - 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 are the materials used? What are their properties, lifecycle, etc
- 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: 21.12.22
- Documentation
- A 'Journal' is developed by each group of students that reflects on experiments and 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: title, authors, abstract, hi-res pics, PDF with commentary text, video documentation (see Wiki)
- A 'Journal' is developed by each group of students that reflects on experiments and learnings from the course. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):
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