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Spring 2022: March 29 - May 6.

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Spring 2022: March 29 - May 6.

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

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The module takes place from March 29 - May 6, over 6 weeks, online, from Tuesday to Friday each week, 9.00-17.00 -  see detailed hours in calendar belowin presence at Toni - See detailed hours in calendar below (room info in Evento). 
*Some sessions may take place via Zoom (although sessions happening both in Zoom and in presence at the same time will not be possible).

Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, home assignments and independent study blocks.

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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

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• Week 2: Idea Transfers
  Researching, Enacting and testing ideas, 
  Methods: sketching, mockups, bodystorming, brainstorming, participatory methods, extreme characters, etc
  
  
• Week 3: Play 
  Creating prototypes and confronting them to the 'real world'
  Methods: cultural probes, participatory methods with mockups, cartoon scenarios, acting out an experience, etc.Week 4: Stories and users
  How is your work being evaluated? 
  Methods: forms of evaluation, from user-testing to narratives enacting scenarios

• Week 54: Production 1
  Independent study week: working on your production assignment 
  Week 6: Production 2
  Finalising the project 
  

Expectations and Grading

Grades will be based on group presentations, class participation, home assignments, documentation (journal) and final work. 
Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation.
Regular attendance of 80% is required, whether in class or group work. Two or more unexcused absences will affect the final grade. Arriving late on more than one occasion will also affect the grade.

Final work 40%

Group presentations & mid-assignments 40% 

Journal Documentation 20%

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• Play 
  Creating prototypes and confronting them to the 'real world'
  Methods: cultural probes, participatory methods with mockups, cartoon scenarios, acting out an experience, etc
  
  
• Week 5: Production 1
  Independent study week: working on your production assignment and setting your own agenda
  (Exceptional mentorings could be available during this week, although you are mostly on your own)
  
  
• Week 6: Production 2
  Finalising the project 

Deliverables

• 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.

• Home/In-class assignments
  

Throughout the module, various short home & in-class assignments will be given to practice concepts discussed in class.

• Group presentations

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 5 minutes.
The format is open: 

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

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• Journal/Blog

A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):

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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.

• Home/In-class assignments
  

Throughout the module, various short home & in-class assignments will be given to practice concepts discussed in class.

• Group presentations

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 5 minutes.
The format is open: 

• • Live sketching
  • Demo with 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)
  
  
• Week 5 First cut of video from Production Week
  Delivered by Midnight Sunday 1.05 on server

• Journal/Blog

A separate 'Journal' is developed by each student that reflects on learnings from the seminar. It should be in the form of an online blog (ie. WordPress, Tumblr or other):

• • The journal should be structured in a generally comprehensible manner
  • The lecture notes, including annotations, are stored
  • Notes, sketches for each day should be included as well
    

Expectations and Grading

Grades will be based on group presentations, class participation, home assignments, documentation (journal) and final work. 
Contributing to constructive group feedback is an essential aspect of class participation.
Regular attendance of 80% is required, whether in class or group work. Two or more unexcused absences will affect the final grade. Arriving late on more than one occasion will also affect the grade.

Final work & documentation 50%

Group presentations & mid-assignments 30% 

Journal Documentation 20%

Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  

Course Materials

The course IAD Design Methods provides the background literature for this class.
Additional readings can be provided as the class progresses.

Teams projects

Lea, Loïc, Luke
Carina, Elena, Lars, Luis
Audrey, Liv, Sonja, Tanja
Bennie, Gio, Matthias, Mo, PJ

Calendar

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