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Spring 2024: March 18 - April 19.

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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?A world of systemic changes... with a twist...

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. 

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  • Week 4: Stories and users 
    How is your work being evaluated? 
    Methods: forms of evaluation, from user-testing to narratives enacting scenarios

  • Week 5: Production 
    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)
    Finalising the project 

  • Week 6? : Polishing details/Final Documentation

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Week 1
Into the Wild!

Monday 18.3

Tuesday 19.3

Wednesday 20.3

Thursday 21.3

Friday 22.3

Morning

(starts at 9.00 otherwise noted)



  • Theory class: Design/Undesign Perspectives & Biases 

    - Presentation of the IAD Process theme this year


Field Research







Field Research







Afternoon
(starts at 13.00 otherwise noted)


  • Introduction about the module, Note on Documentation

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

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

  • Assignment field research

13.30

  • First unedited results (sound, photos, videos, observations) (jb, nf)

  • Input
    Ethnographic study & 
    Sense Making (nf)




Going back to Field 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)

     
  • Expectations for the following week

  • *visit of mini-golf hard (tbc)

Week 2
Idea Transfers

Monday 25.3

Tuesday 26.3

Wednesday  27.3

Thursday  28.3

Friday 29.3

Morning

  • 9.30-11.30
    Theory class: Experience and the "user"


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


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

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

holiday

Afternoon

  • Exercise: Very rapid prototyping 
    (jb)

  • Group Presentations:
    mock-ups
    (jb) 

Field Research & Desk-based Research


  • Input "Narrowing Down" (nf) 
  • Mentorings per Group (30 Min.) (nf) 

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

Check-in by groups: Advanced concept: Related Work, References and Prototype 1.0
(jb)

Week 3
Play

Monday 1.4

Tuesday 2.4

Wednesday  3.4

Thursday  4.4

Friday 5.4

Morning

holiday

  • 9.30-11.30
    Theory class: Prototyping concepts, prototyping everything

    Prototyping with Bodystorming in the field: follow/observe situation in the field (outside Toni)

Independent Study




Independent Study




atelier walk-thru (jb) (time tbd)



Afternoon


  • 15.00 (back to Toni)
    Present Exercise:  
    Prototyping ideas with Performance enactment / Bodystorming
    (jb)

Demoes on location (all groups together):
Prototypes demoes in situation 
(jb, nf)

Week 4
Stories and Users

Monday 8.4

Tuesday 9.4

Wednesday 10.4

Thursday 11.4

Friday 12.4

Morning

  • 9.30-11.30
    Theory class: Storytelling as a Prototype
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Independent Study



Independent Study

Independent Study



Afternoon

  • Workshop Exercise/Input 
    Storytelling & Storyboards (nf) 


Mentoring Storyboard (nf)

14.00 Check-In by groups: Video showcase:
Narratives showcasing prototypes in action
(nf, jb)

Week 5
Production 

Monday 15.04 

Tuesday 16.4

Wednesday 17.4

Thursday  18.4

Friday 19.4


  • 9.30-11.30
    Theory class: Evaluating Outcomes (with participants)


  • Mentoring (jb)

Production 

Production

Editing Mentoring: (nf)

on request  



Production *Booking photo studio Deadline
  • Final Group presentations - choose location
  • Feedback session
    (jb, nf)







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