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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. 

Topic

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

"With People, For the People, By the People"

The topic for this class addresses the typical design premice of people-centered design 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 uncover the contradictions of a designer's agency. In particular, we'll work 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.

This course will take place in partnership with patients from the Ateliers-Living Museum of Psychiatrie St.Gallen Nord, in Wil.

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:

...

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

...

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

...

as the class progresses.

Teams projects

Calendar

Week 1
Into the Wild!

Tuesday 26.3

Wednesday 27.3

Thursday 28.3

Friday 29.3

Monday 25.03

Morning

09.30-10.30
Introduction about the modules, Presentation of the topic, Note on Documentation
10.30-11.30 Lecture
JBField Research




7.46 
Train from Zurich HB to Wil

9.15
Meeting at Cafe Living Museum.
Visit Ateliers - Living Museums, Psychiatrie St.Gallen Nord

(jb, nf)

9:30 - 12:00 
Ethnographic study
and
Get prepared for
Field Research
(nf) 

09.30 -

10

11.30
Clustering and Going

Back to the Field
NF, JLB
Field Research

Field Research

Afternoon

13.00-14.30
Exercise: topic and group building
JB  
14.30-16.30
Renting Equipment and Get prepared for Field Research
NF

13.00-14.00
Group presentations:
First Impressions
NF, JBL

14.00-15-00 
Ethnographic study
NF

15

back in the field.
Sense Making (AEIO)
(nf)



Field Research

Afternoon

15.15-17.00, room 5.G02.
Introduction about the module, Lecture on the topic, Note on Documentation
(jb, nf)

Back to Toni.
14.00 - 16.00


Sense Making (AEIO)
NF


Exercise: topic and group building
(jb)  

Renting Equipment 
(nf)

Field Research

 


Field Research

13.00 - 14.

30

00
Group presentations: Inspirations and Field Research

JB, NF, JLB

(jb, nf)

14.30-16.30

Mentoring:

Narrowing


Down

JB, JLB 

(nf) 


Week 2
Idea Transfers

Tuesday 2.4

Wednesday 3.4

Thursday 4.4

Friday

 4

 5.4

Morning

09.30-

10

09.

00

45
Expectations for the

following

week and discussions

JB, JLB

(jb, jbl) 

10.

00

40-11.

00

25
Exercise: Very rapid prototyping

JB, JLB

14.45-15.30
Group Presentations:
mock-ups
JB, NF, JLB 

11.00-12.30
Lecture: Quirky designs for development and social change
LG
Exercise: Very rapid prototyping
JB, LG

Independent Study:
Preparation of presentation

Afternoon

Field Research

13.30-14.30
Group presentations: Inspirations and Field Research
JB, NF, LG

Independent Study 

13.30-15.30

(jb, jbl) 

11.25-12.00
Group Presentations:
mock-ups
(jb, jbl) 

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


Field Research








Desk-based Research or Field Research

Afternoon

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

14.00-17.00
Lecture on Cultural Probes and Exercise
(jbl)



Field Research

13.00-15.00
Group presentations: Related Work and Production Plan for the next 4

weeks
JB, LG

weeks 
(jb, nf, jbl)

Week 3
Play

Tuesday 9.4

Wednesday 10.4

Thursday 11.4

Friday 12.4

Morning

Independent Study 

09.30 -

12

Afternoon

Independent Study 

13.30 - 14.30
Exercise:
Bodystorming

LG

14.30-16

11.30


Theory Class - IAD Method
JB

Exercise: Diagrams
JB

Independent Study

Independent Study


Exercise: Bodystorming

(jb, jbl)


Independent Study



12.00-13.00
Guest Lecture - open to all: Jean-Baptiste Labrune (3.K13)

Independent Study

Web Dev module
(4.K15)

Afternoon

13.00-16.00
Exercise: Protoyping Ideas
(jb, jbl)

13.30 - 15.00
Mentoring:
Protoyping


JB, LG

(20mn/group)
(jb, jbl)

Independent Study

13.00-15.00
Group presentations:
Prototypes

JB, LG, NF

(jb, jbl)

Week 4
Stories and Users

Tuesday 16.4

Wednesday 17.4

Thursday 18.4

Friday 19.4

Morning

Independent Study

09.30 - 12.30

Theory Class - IAD Method
JBExercise

Input: Storytelling and Exercise

JB, NF

(jb, jbl)



Independent Study

Independent Study

09.30-12



Holiday

Afternoon

14.00 - 16.00

Group presentations13

Input: Storyboards

Storytelling
NF, JB

Afternoon

Independent Study

(nf)

14.30-

15.30
Mentoring: Storytelling
JB, NF
Independent Study13.00-16.00
Mentoring: Storyboards
NF

16.00
Mentoring: Storytelling 
(20mn/group)

(jb, jbl)

12.30-14.00
Group presentations:
Storytelling
(jb, jbl)

Holiday

Week 5
Production 

Tuesday 23.4

Wednesday 24.4

Thursday 25.4

Friday 26.4


Production Week


Production Week

 

Production Week

Production Week


Week 6
Production

Tuesday 30.4

Wednesday 1.5

Thursday 2.5

Friday 3.5

Morning

Holiday

09.30-12.30
Theory Class - IAD Method
JB

09.30-12.00
Mentoring:
Editing

NF09.00

Wednesday 1.5

Thursday 2.5

Friday 3.5

Morning

09.30-11.30
Final
Group presentations

JB, NF, LG 

11.30-12.30
Guest Lecture: Lalya Gaye
Room 5T09

Afternoon

Holiday13.00-13.45
Group presentations:
Back from the production week
JB, NF, LG

13.45-16.00
Mentoring: Editing
NF
Independent StudyDocumentation
Work
:
Back from the production week // at Living Museum
(jb, nf, jbl)

Independent Study

Independent Study

Web Dev module
(4.E08)

Afternoon

13.00-16.00
Mentoring: Editing
(nf)
Independent Study

13.15-15.30
Final Group
presentations
(jb, nf, jbl)



14.00 - 17.00 Documentation
Work // 
Feedback session
(jb, nf)

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

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