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Lecturers:

Dr Joëlle Bitton
Zaiqiao Ye
Guanyou Li 

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  • Collection Exercise I: 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

  • Collection Exercise II: Sensory Collection


  • Collection Exercise II: Material Collection 
    In advance, select materials you want to experiment with: biomaterials, minerals, off-the-shelf, chemicals, liquids, growing, reactive, decaying, static, states, duration, texture, smell, taste, touch, etc
    Think of where they come from, how they have been extracted, by whom, their lifecycle, their history, their trade, their price value, their exploitation, rarity, waste, off-the-shelf, availability, function, unfunction, forms of fabrication, etc... 
    Bring them for a collective experimental day, list characteristics, qualities and behaviours and determine which interface could be derived from its properties.

    • Bring your own material that would be relevant to experiment with
    • Prototyping materials: paper, cardboard, rope, fabrics, wax, glue, plaster, flour, sugar, balloons, wires
    • Biomaterials/bioplastics: agar, yeast, SCOBY/Kombucha, other plant-based peels, soil
    • Malleable Fabrication: clay, latex, silicone, burlap, paint, fluorescent ink, metal, paper pulp/papier maché
    • Digital Fabrication: wood, PLA, plastics, styrofoam

  • Collection Exercise III: Workshop assignments
    Using data to control sensors (gathering data, testing with sensors, controlling Arduino, fabrication processes with data, etc)

  • 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: -Class Showcase: Overall Concept, Main directions, Inspirations/Related Work (references, authors, dates, visuals) Material inquiries, and Advanced 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 two or three four to five students 

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

    Final Presentation on: 21.4.23

  • 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, 1mn video documentation
      PDF featuring texts and visuals: Overall Concept, Main directions, Inspirations/Related Work (references, authors, dates, visuals) Material inquiries, and Prototype 


TIMETABLE

When times not indicated, students are expected to work on their own independent study time

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Week 1 - DATA & MATERIAL COLLECTIONMo. 04.03Tu. 05.03

We 06.03

Th. 07.03

Fr. 08.03






Slot I

Shenzhen:
08.00-09.45









Self-study



Text, Discussion, Listening exercise - 

walking around and noticing things





Self-study



Self-study




Slot II

Shenzhen:
10.00-11.45


{jb}

Kick-off course (syllabus presentation)

Input 

  • Overview / Methodology, case studies + Q/A 




Discussion in groups Part I: 
From ideation to in-depth concept 

  • Discuss the points in the lecture that inspired you, troubled you, confused you - what concepts stayed. what experience could you create from these interactions?



***In prep for next week, start collecting materials (or growing them)***



Input

  • Fabrication processes, Sensors & body extensions + Q/A






Discussion in groups Part II 

  • Discuss in groups and sketch out possible interests


Text, Discussion, Listening exercise - 

walking around and noticing things


Presentation of Assignments

Slot III 

Shenzhen:
14.00-15.45



Kick-Off exercise

  • Analogue Data Collection 

(self-conducted exercise for 24 hours – observe and measure in analog way an aspect of your life)


Presentation of Kick-off exercise (performance 2min/student) 


Self-study

Discussion in groups Part III

  • What embodied interaction experience do you want to create?
  • What inspires it? (material, relation, environment, data, topic...)
  • What drives the design? (what role does it play, what does it provoke?)
  • What data makes sense to use? 
  • What metaphor could be relevant?


+decide your group

Slot IV


Shenzhen:
16.00-17.45

Self-studySelf-study
Week 2 - MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION & FIRST PROTOTYPE Mo.11.03

Tu. 12.03


We. 13.03


Th. 14.03 Fr. 15.03 



Slot I

Shenzhen:
08.00-09.45

Class presentations

What was achieved since Friday, research directions and prototype 1.0 10mn/group

  • From your design interest/wish, reflect on what drives it: data, material, fabrication technique, function, critique, curiosity, inspiration, related work..?
  • what is the data you will use and how do you collect it? (api, sensor, live, dataset, personal, collective etc…)
  • how will you map it?
  • how would you like to fabricate it? (technology used, materials used…)
  • which interface for which material?
  • what is the  larger socio-eco-political context of the material you are using?
  • what story are you telling?


Material workshop prep


Self-study


(jb, fl, gl) 

Material workshop  

- bring the materials you have collected and create interfaces that take into account their properties and affordances

Tour of materials

Data & Materials: Reviewing ideas/ first mentorings


  • Input/Exercise: What meaning do you give to the data? What metaphors do you use for mapping? How to interact with machines and materials {jb}

  • Quick Catch-up per group/first mentorings {jb}


Notes about choreography

Workshop Data, self and bodies All Day 

  • Collecting and Working with live & online Datasets

  • Fabrication processes (how to make things)

  • Using sensors and controllers







Slot II

Shenzhen:
10.00-11.45


Slot III 

Shenzhen:
14.00-15.45


Self-study

Each group proposes an experiment

Self-study

Slot IV

Shenzhen:
16.00-17.45

Week 3 - FABRICATION

Mo. 18.03

Tu. 19.03

We. 20.03Th. 21.03Fr. 22.03



Slot I

Shenzhen:
16.00-17.45

Zurich :
09.00-10.45

Self-study

(jb)

Class Group showcase: 

Advanced prototypes +
Overall Concept, Main directions, Inspirations/Related Work, Material inquiries, and Prototype 


Mentoring: Next prototypes
(20mn/group)

Quick Review from previous weeks- based on prototyping, experiments...

Questions that emerged, etc. 




Self-study

Self-study

(jb)

Class presentation: choreographies

Advances prototypes in context: at body scale and in movement. Present choreography in the location of your choice.



Slot II

Shenzhen:
18.00-19.45

Zurich: 
11.00-12.45



Slot III & IV

Shenzhen:
21.00 - 00.00



Self-study

Self-study
Week 4 - FINAL PRODUCTION Mo. 25.03

Tu. 26.03

We. 27.03Th. 28.03Fr. 29.03Sat 30.03



Slot I

Shenzhen:
16.00-17.45

Zurich :
09.00-10.45

Self-study

{jb}

Mentoring: (Almost) Completed prototypes
(20mn/group)

Review & Discussion

Self-study

Self-study

{jb}

Final Presentations:

Performances and Context




Last Discussion - Students Review lessons learned + Feedback session

Slot II

Shenzhen:
18.00-19.45

Zurich: 
11.00-12.45



Slot III & IV

Shenzhen:
21.00 - 00.00


Self-study


Finish Documentation: video, and booket (hi-res pictures and short text)

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