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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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- 11.00 Final Documentation 
Delivered by (email)Independent study
Week 1 - ValuesTu. 4.12

We 5.12

Th. 6.12

Fr. 7.12

Morning 
(starting 9:00 unless noted otherwise)

Intro session
{jb, cw, ms, mf, ak, bs}

  • Welcome and Intro 
  • Syllabus presentation 
  • Input on the word "hacking" and various meanings {jb}

Exercise 01

  • Noticing your own personal values:
    - what are your boundaries? (physical and moral)
    - where can you change? what is negotiable / non-negotiable?
    - where power structure do you want to challenge? at what scale?  
  • Discussion on material collected the previous day

Input 

  • Lecture:
    public/private space and appropriations
    {ak}


  • Discussion on topics that students want to pursue in their projects - what do you want to hack?
    {jb, cw}
Independent studyIndependent study

Afternoon 
(starting 13:00 unless noted otherwise)


13.00 - 15.00
Exercise 01
- continued.

15.00
Exercise 02
{cw..}

  • Ideation Walk or Personal space exercise or dancing exercise?

    (Strollology)
    (Camera, Pencil, Paper, Voice Recorder)

Exercise 03

  • Dancing exercise or strollology or body hack?

Assignment

  • In preparation of the following week, prepare a quick prototype of your idea
    (how to quickly prototype)
  • Quick round presentation of assignment and discussion
    {jb, cw}

Exercise 04

  • Materials properties

Assignment

  • Reiterate prototype based on feedback
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Week 2 - Actions

Tu. 11.12

We. 12.12

Th. 13.12Fr. 14.12 
Morning
  • Quick presentation of assignments - keywords structure - and discussion

Input 

  • Lecture
    {bs}

Independent study

Independent study


Independent study






Afternoon 

Exercise 04

  • Materials properties
Independent study

13.00 - 15.00 
Mentoring - Advanced Prototype - mentoring takes place in working stations
{jb, cw, ak}

Classroom4.T064.T305.T045.T04
Week 3 - Restitution

Tu. 18.12

We. 19.12

Th. 20.12Fr. 21.12

Mo. 17.12

Hacking Values
Seminar
All Day

Independent study



Independent study

09.00 - 12.00
Final Presentation
{jb}


Final Documentation 
Delivered by 16.00

(email)


14.00 - 16.00
Mentoring - Advanced Prototype - mentoring takes place in working stations
{jb, cw}

Independent study

0914.00 - 12.00
Final Presentation
{jb}

16.00

Critique, Outcomes discussion
{jb}

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