MA Studio
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embodied experience - movement - sensory perceptions
form of activism, akin to notions of resistance, disobedience, and subversion, especially as we refer here to "values".
As such, finding affordable or personal solutions, going around established systems, repairing or subverting an object's use could be ways of gaining or regaining autonomy, gaining or regaining meaning, etc. The hacks themselves often have a playful quality to them that underlines that those forms of resistance are mostly physically non-confrontational and non-violent.
Forms of hacking can also include statements of living and thriving within subcultures, forms of art and performance (ie. drag culture), taking counter hetero-normative and counter patriarchical actions (such as not being referred to with a gender-based pronoun).
Finally, adopting and embracing failure, cracks, oddness and uncanniness could constitute again other forms of hacking, and be notably expressed with art, design and craft (see Kintsugi art for instance).
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Prototyping/Learning by doing
Prototyping can cover many meanings and take many shapes at every stage of an interaction design process: ideation, defining a concept, group discussion, field studies, iterations of outcomes, etc. By externalising thoughts into tangible objects or embodied experiments, we demonstrate over and over the possibilities of an interaction. This is the affirmation that learning can happen on trying, experimenting, failing, improvising, not quite planning or knowing in advance how something works or how to do something. Learning is not contained in to a typical scholar structure , of acquiring a theoretical knowledge before practicing it - but it is manifesting in action.
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Dancing Exercise
In this method, we see performance as an anchor point in iterating concepts. Like William Forsythe, who's basic idea is taking ballet as a language with its own vocabulary and rules, to break it and bend it, you can take geometries like of classic dance to be twisted, tilt or pulled out of a line. This is a way to mess with social conventions. We do not act "properly", like dancing in a discussion or talking in a dancing piece. Dancing becomes a method of investigation like Forsythe was remarking "I think by dancing I was able to understand a lot of things. I was able to intuit things about mathematics and philosophy … "(BBC Radio 3 2003, interview with John Tusa) So how do we understand the patterns of social dynamics around us and how do we stretch and break it apart to gain a better understanding?
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forsythe_(choreographer)
link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/arts/design/the-shed-new-york-prelude.html
Bodystorming
Bodystorming is an improvisational brainstorm based on interaction and movement with the body. To remind participants that interactions are human and physical, to teach stakeholders empathy for users, and to get away from our computers. "Bodystorming is useful when you are designing devices or interior or exterior spaces. For example, you might use bodystorming to understand how users of different heights and ages would experience different versions of aircraft cabins (for example, what are the problems with lifting luggage in crowded planes from the floor to the overhead bins), or the layout of modern train cars. Bodystorming can be quite useful in understanding the experience of teams who work in close quarters like doctors and nurses in an operating room or the cooking staff in a restaurant. Bodystorming is a way to envision how people will interact with ubiquitous computing systems like smart homes and virtual meeting spaces." (Design Research at Autodesk)
link: Bodystorming as embodied Designing (ACM)
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We 16.10 Intro | Th 17.10 Observation | Fr 18.10 Intervention | ||
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Morning
| Independent study: conduct two observations throughout the day.
Post notes, sketches, findings on Miro board | Independent study - Strollology 1. Pick the same area from the day before or a new one - add a intervention ('defamiliarize' it) 2. Interact with an audience in that same space (discussion, interview, social experiment, exchange ...)
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Afternoon
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Mo 21.10 Improvisation | Tu 22.10 Mutation 1 | We 23.10 Mutation 2 | Th 24.10 Mutation 3 | Fr.25.10 Outro |
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9.30
| Independent study: Decide what you want to find out, rehearse public space activity, gather props | Independent study: Iteration 2 | Independent study: Iteration 3
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13.30
| Independent study: Iteration 1 Post analysis + findings on Miro | 13.00
Post analysis + findings on Miro | 14.00
Final Documentation | |
On Location |
Teams
Literature/References
- Links from Andreas Kohli on public space hacks
- Thomas Düllo,Franz Liebl (Hg.)
Cultural hacking : Kunst des strategischen Handelns
isbn: 9783211232781
Springer Verlag Wien, 2005 - Systeme erkennen:
Supermarket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYhRzt_8Fs
Social media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfXgRFDI5CY
Wilderness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfz76qSKx4
Theorie
Niklas Luhmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143IZxZF1WE - Choreography:
William Forsythe:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEBD630ACCB6AD45
Trisha Brown:
https://youtu.be/9dAvQstiVqA
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