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Spring 2020: March 24 - April 30.

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Spring 2020: March 24 - April 30.

Instructors:
Dr Joëlle Bitton
joelle.bitton@zhdk.ch 

Nicole Foelsterl
nicole.foelsterl@zhdk.ch

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This course is project-based and will allow students to have a hands-on experience.
Organised in groups, students will develop innovative design concept for a product, a service or an experience. 

Topic

"With People, For the People, By the People"
The Systemic changes

This year, the topic for this class addresses the typical design premice of peopleinteraction designers' wishes to have a societal impact. People-centered design is at the core of interaction design studies and human-computer interaction research. What does this premice actually mean? What are the limitations, frustrations, realities of designing on the ground? Is participatory design an actual possibility or is it a fallacy where designers end-up imposing their views unto "users". This class will challenge the assumption that interaction designers design for people as a mantra perpetuated in diverse institutions and corporations, and The class proposes to look at proposal of changes not in term of individual behaviours but addressing if systemic changes can happen from a design proposal. We will also uncover the contradictions of a designer's agency (in particular, within the boundary of designing for/with people on the margins, with special needs, or that don't always fit the mainstream types of users).responsibility, agency and idealisation. 
For this course, each group of students will engage designing in a social context that they will identify and they will argue for their intervention, in conjunction with working with people involved on the ground.

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Week 1
Into the Wild!

Tuesday 24.3

Wednesday 25.3

Thursday 26.3

Friday 27.3

Morning

(starts at 9.30 otherwise noted)



  • Introduction about the module, Note on Documentation

  • Lecture on the topic and discussion (jb)

  • Exercise, part 1: topic and group building
    (jb, nf)

Field Research

 


  • Clustering and Going back in the field.
    Sense Making (AEIO)
    (nf)



Field Research

Afternoon
(starts at 13.00 otherwise noted)


  • Exercise, part 2: topic and group building
    (jb, nf)
  • Ethnographic study
    and     Get prepared for
    Field Research
    (nf)   
  • Renting Equipment 
    (nf)

Field Research

  • Group presentations: Inspirations and Field Research
    (jb, nf)
  • Expectations for the following week
  • Narrowing Down
    (nf) 


Week 2
Idea Transfers

Tuesday 31.3

Wednesday 1.4

Thursday 2.4

Friday 3.4

Morning

  • Exercise: Very rapid prototyping
  • Group Presentations:
    mock-ups
    (jb) 

Field Research and Desk-based Research
(Related work, 
state of the art)


(External Workshop)











Afternoon

  • Exercise: Bodystorming
    (jb)

Desk-based Research 
(Related work, 
state of the art)

  • 16.00 Group presentations: Related Work and Production plan for the next 4 weeks 
    (jb, nf)


Week 3
Play

Tuesday 7.4

Wednesday 8.4

Thursday 9.4

Friday 10.4

Morning

  • Input: Cultural Probes and Exercise
    (jb)

Independent Field Study




Independent Field Study

Holiday


Afternoon

  • Exercise: Prototyping Ideas
    (jb)
  • Mentoring on location
    (20mn/group)
    (jb)
  • 15.00 Group presentations:
    Advanced Prototypes
    (jb)

Week 4
Stories and Users

Tuesday 14.4

Wednesday 15.4

Thursday 16.4

Friday 17.4

Morning

  • Input: Storytelling
  • Exercise: Performance enactment
    (jb)

Independent Field Study

Independent Field Study


Independent Field Study

Afternoon

  • Input: Storyboards
    (nf)
  • Mentoring on location
    (20mn/group)
    (jb)
  • Group presentations:
    Storytelling
    (jb, nf)

Week 5
Production 1

Tuesday 21.4

Wednesday 22.4

Thursday 23.4

Friday 24.4


Production Week


Production Week

 

Production Week

Production Week


Week 6
Production 2

Tuesday 28.4

Wednesday 29.4

Thursday 30.4

Friday 1.5

Morning

  • Group presentations:
    Back from the production week: recount of what was made & achieved during the week
    (jb, nf)

  • Mentoring: Editing
    (nf)

Independent Field Study

Independent Study

Holiday


Afternoon

  • Mentoring: Editing
    (nf)
  • 14.00 Final Group presentations
  • Feedback session
    (jb, nf)

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