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Topic: Growth Processes


While designing digital products, we are already focusing on creating frameworks for dynamic content and individual outcomes. In this course, we will create frameworks, physically, to let nature interact with it and to invite people to alter and manipulate it.

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How do we sense, observe and adapt the huge variety of processes around us to design with? In this two-weeks hands-on course, we will observe like in a laboratory specific principles, geometries and materialities to create computationally aided new collaborative processes, like adapting the geometries of cellulose forcing capillaric forces to use for transportation processes or the thermal behaviour of stones for storing energy in the environment. Programming, CAD- and fabrication- tools should help to open up different phenomena for potential uses in design.  

Key Topics

  • focus on human nostalgy, experiences and aesthetics incorporating digital fabrication

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Lecturers: Verena Ziegler, Rasa Weber

Course Goals

In this course, students gain an insight into methods and techniques that blur the boundary between digital and analogue, virtual and physical. Students gain insights into principles from geometry and formation processes from nature. The course provides a number of skills that are highly transferable to various aspects of prototyping for interaction designers.   

Course Structure

The course is Monday to Friday over two weeks, with the first week focuses on basic skills, and the 2nd week focuses on the main project. In the first week, students work individually or in groups of two to acquire basic skills. In the 2nd week, students form teams of 2 to 4 students to complete the main project.

Deliverables 

  • Individual Mini Projects 
  • 2 days workshop of technical drawing with mini exercises (Rasa Weber)
  • Final Group Project and Presentation -  (At the end of week 2)
  • Documentation - Documentation of your work in the template provided (Per Group). 
  • Attendance during lessons  

Contents 

Time Plan 

Room : ZT 3.E07-A


Expectations and Grading

Grades will be based on group presentations, class participation, documentation and final work. An attendance of min. 80% is required to pass the course.

  • Individual Work and Documentation (week one)
  • Group Work in the main project (week two)

Individual Work (40%) 

  1. Workbook documentation of exercises and minor projects from week 1

Group Work (60%) 

  1. Exhibition of process and outcomes
  2. Final Presentation 
  3. Standard IAD Documentation 
    • Videos (Making of, Final Prototype) if appropriate
    • Image selection
    • Recipe Documentation in the template provided (PDF and original InDesign files)

Final Presentation notes:

  • The exhibition of the workshop results will take place in 3.E07-A. The tables will be set up for this on Thursday afternoon. 
  • 5 minutes for presentation, and 5 minutes for feedback and discussion
  • Live demonstration of your project when suitable
  • Explanation of the process and the thinking that brought you to this outcome 

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