Lecturers:
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In order to create this experience, we propose an examination and speculation of design factors that emphasise embodiment and physicality: we use personal data, wearability, materials, fabrication processes, technologies and movements to ground the story we tell.
Forms of embodied Interaction can include wearables, mobile interfaces, corporeal devices, orthotics and prosthetics, sensorial interfaces, interactive materials, immersive experiences, tangible interfaces, etc.
In this design process, we also include societal, ethical and social influences.
In parallel, we have now access to now face a convergence of tools and processes that dramatically facilitate an even greater tangible interaction with between bits & atoms, giving us access to shape interfaces between the analog/physical and the digital/programmed: interactive modes of digital fabrication, data-tracking, sensors, physical computing, generative design, AI-driven outputs, biodesign, material affordances...we thus have the opportunity to investigate ways that we can transform our physical selves and environments.
*And as materials and data that are used in interaction design become more easily entangled with our visions, we also ask questions of extraction, and human and environmental impacts.
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- In-class Exercises, Performances & Weekly progress reviews (bring iterated prototype/sketches/experiments for each mentoring)
- Mid-Class Delivery: PDF showcasing 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: Interactive embodied fabricated apparatus
FInal version of your work iterated on for several weeks. 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).
In groups of 2-4 students
Final Presentation & Performance: Students present with their group an Exhibition of Experiments & Performance with Final Prototypes together with an oral presentation.
Presentation on: 19.12.24
- 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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