Interdisciplinary IAD Module Fall 2018, in cooperation with DDK, DKV and DKM
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From "life hacks", necessity-based "bricolage", such as Jugaad in India (see other terms in different countries*) to art-based and political-based targeted disruptions, "hacking" could be considered as a 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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Dancing Exercise
see William Forsythe
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)
(Add. Link at ACM)
Prototyping/Learning by doing
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Week 1 - Values | Tu. 4.12 | We 5.12 | Th. 6.12 | Fr. 7.12 |
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Morning | Intro session
Exercise 01
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Input
| Independent study | Independent study |
Afternoon | 13.00 - 15.00 15.00
| Exercise 03
Assignment
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Assignment
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Classroom | 5.T04 | 5.T04 | 5.T04 | 5.T04 |
Week 2 - Actions | Tu. 11.12 | We. 12.12 | Th. 13.12 | Fr. 14.12 |
Morning |
Input
| Independent study | Independent study | Independent study |
Afternoon | Exercise 04
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Classroom | 4.T06 | 4.T30 | 5.T04 | 5.T04 |
Week 3 - Restitution | Tu. 18.12 | We. 19.12 | Th. 20.12 | Fr. 21.12 |
Mo. 17.12 Hacking Values | 09.00 - 11.00 | Independent study | 09.00 - 12.00 | Final Documentation |
Independent study |
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Classroom | 5.T04 | 5.G02 | 5.T04 | 5.T04 |