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• Design Affordances
• Sketching for Interaction Designers: Objects and their Use, Storytelling and Storyboards, Technical Drawing ( Section, Plan, Axonometric drawing, Perspective )
• Patterning > Paper modelling
• Product Design Werkstatt Introduction, Z-Tech course ( laser-cutting etc.)  
• Concept and design of tangible interactive prototype ( Sketching, Photo Series, Text )

Exercises

Exercise 1. Sketching Sensory Experience

The goal of this exercise is to study an object through tactile experience it enables. The challenge is to sketch the sensory experience as it emerges: to put the sensations into words and into drawings. Students work in couples. One of the students is blindfolded. He or she is given an object to be explored through senses other than vision. Without saying the name of the object, the blindfolded person describes the sensations (soft, curved, warm, loud etc) caused through manipulation of the artifact.  The person who listens tried to put these words into sketches.

Exercise 2. Sketching Form

Using front and side views, sections, axonometric projection and/or prospective, the students technically represent an object.

Exercise 3. Sketching Function

Students sketch the use of the object in a functional way. The human body or its parts (hand or foot) have to be represented. The result should be a drawn user manual.

Exercise 4. Sketching Use and Misuse

Students invent stories of the use and misuse of the object. The temporal aspect of the story comes into play - How does one represent cause-effect loops, emotional states etc.

Exercise 5. Sensory Material Library

Gather three materials that offer interesting / unusual visual or haptic qualities. Use the given template to describe the materials objective and subjective properties.

material library template.ai

Exercise 6. Cut and Paste

This exercise is an exploration of patterns, scale and repetition. It is composed of three steps:

1. From a flat paper create a form by cutting, folding, waving and/or gluing it.

2. Using a repetition of the same element create a pattern or a new object

3. Scale the same element into different sizes and connect them to create a new object

Exercise 7. Cube Expressions

Build 3 objects out of foam cubes [10x10x10cm]. Each must invite one of the following actions through form:

… spin me

… leave ma alone

… shake me

… stretch me

… complete me

… inhale me

… break me

Exercise 8. Light as Mater

Create a concept for an interactive lamp. Adapt interactions and/or affordances from other contexts. One way of achieving that, can be by giving existing objects a new function (ready mades),

Build an experience prototype.

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