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Spring 2019: March 26 - May 3.

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

Nicole Foelsterl
nicole.foelsterl@zhdk.ch

Guest Lecturer:
Jean-Baptiste Labrune

Office hours by appointment 

The module takes place from March 26 - May 3, over 6 weeks, including a production week (5), from Tuesday to Friday each week, 9.30-17.00.
Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, home assignments and independent study blocks.
Projects are conducted in groups of 4 students. 

Overview and Objectives

This course puts the students in the context of realising an interaction design outcome from initial idea to final proposal, with a particular emphasis on field research and user-experience.
In this interaction design process, students work through the several stages of project development: Context/User Inquiry, Concept Generation, Idea Testing, Prototype Development, Evaluation and Concept Iteration. 

Following these stages of observation, creation, and evaluation, we will discuss and apply situated and user-centered methods (eg. bodystorming, context analysis, video scenarios, etc).

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. 

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Spring 2019: March 26 - May 3.

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

Nicole Foelsterl
nicole.foelsterl@zhdk.ch

Guest Lecturer:
Dr Jean-Baptiste Labrune

Project Partner:
Psychiatrie St.Gallen Nord, Ateliers-Living Museum, Zürcherstrasse 30 CH-9501 Wil (SG)
with Rose Ehemann and Nicole Ottiger

Office hours by appointment 

The module takes place from March 26 - May 3, over 6 weeks, including a production week (5), from Tuesday to Friday each week, 9.30-17.00, see detailed hours in calendar below.
Room is 4K15 for most of the module, except during production week (access to photo studio 3.F18) and final week (4.E08). Exceptions made be added in the calendar.
Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, home assignments and independent study blocks.
Projects are conducted in groups of 4 students. 

Overview and Objectives

This course puts the students in the context of realising an interaction design outcome from initial idea to final proposal, with a particular emphasis on field research and user-experience.
In this interaction design process, students work through the several stages of project development: Context/User Inquiry, Concept Generation, Idea Testing, Prototype Development, Evaluation and Concept Iteration. 

Following these stages of observation, creation, and evaluation, we will discuss and apply situated and user-centered methods (eg. bodystorming, context analysis, video scenarios, etc).

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

During the course the student will learn:

• how to design through personal exploration and in communication with others (participatory design)
• how to search for new possibilities/opportunites/alternatives for interactive products, rather than responding to a set of given requirements
• how to use a variety of methods and tools which can be existing design practices, can be borrowed from other disciplines and can be developed by designers themselves 
• how to apply ethical guidelines in co-design 

The student is expected to produce these final deliverables:

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Interval group presentations each week present the advancement of the group's project and highlight the specific requirements of that week.
Each presentation are structured so that each group member will introduce an aspect of the project. On average, the presentation should be 10 minutes.
The format is open: 

• • Live sketching
  • Demo with prototyping
  • Classic Slides presentation
  • etc.prototyping
  • Classic Slides presentation
  • etc.

• Week 2 Presentation requirements:
  Name of group/project
  Knowledge Inquiry
  5 related works
  Lessons learned from the field / probes
  Where do you want to go
  How do you get there (identify roles, needs, actions)
   

• Final Work

The final outcome of the class is a project proposal in the form of a working prototype, user-tested and represented to an external audience in the form of a film and/or a medium of your choice (installation, website, demo, etc...). For this class, there will be an emphasis on the film narrative as a way to disseminate your proposal.

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The course IAD Design Methods provides the background literature for this class.
Readings are made available in the shared IAD server, under 19FS > Sem2_IAD_PROCESS.

Additional readings are can be provided below as the class progresses:

• The 12 Permaculture Design Principles - compiled by Jason Gerhardt
• Permaculture, a Beginner's Guide - Graham Burnett
• Quirky Designs for Development and Social Change - Lalya Gaye
• What Do Prototypes Prototype - Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill
• Experience Prototyping - Marion Buchenau and Jane Fulton Suri
• Understanding context by being there: case studies in bodystorming - Antti Oulasvirta, Esko Kurvinen, Tomi Kankainen
• Theatre of the Oppressed - Augusto Boal
• Sense and Sensibility: Evaluation and Interactive Art - Kristina Höök, Phoebe Sengers, and Gerd Andersson

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as the class progresses.

Teams projects

• Shafira, Sonjoi, Sophie, Yami

• Andreas, Andy, Roman, Zoe

• Andreas, Charlotte, Danu, Tim

• Damaris, Fabian, Paméla, Tamara

Calendar

JB: Dr. Joëlle Bitton, NF: Nicole Foesterl, JBL: Jean-Baptiste Labrune

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