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Lecturers:Lecturers:

Dr Joëlle Bitton
Zaiqiao Ye
Guanyou Li 

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During this module, we'll uncover some of these possibilities by designing and informing our bodily environment increasingly influenced by data tracking. By group of 2 4 or 35, you'll propose interactive forms of body extension/representation/mirror/sense.

Design factors have to include:

• material intimacy 
• processes of fabrication 
• data tracking & mapping / generative design
• wearability or extension or external or sensorial apparatus
• performative aspects
• interactive components
• political / environmental / societal context

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Assignments/presentations 30% 

Journal Final Documentation 20% 

Class participation 10% 

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• Collection Exercise I: Analogue Data Collection 

  Look for sources of your personal body data in the real world. What traces do we leave behind that give us indications about our movements, vital signs or emotions? 
  Be aware of the data you're collecting without intention. Or are you currently collecting data intentionally? 
  Is there a type of data that reveals something specific about your life, your interactions with your environment? Can a short sample offer a complex reflection?
  Your survey has to comprehend at least 6 hours of tracking and showcase a complex aspect of your entangled life (beyond a specific quantity tracking). 
  Think of questions you want to answer before you start tracking.

  Record videos or take photos to indicate and attempt to extract the data or reflect on it.
  Represent that data in a performative way. 

  Presentation/performance: max 2 minutes - you can invite the audience to take part, use props, etc

  Individual work
  
  

• Collection Exercise II: Sensory Collection
  Short exercises/questions during field study related to sensory perceptions.
  
  
• Collection Exercise III: Material Collection 
  In advance, select materials you want to experiment with: biomaterials, minerals, off-the-shelf, chemicals, liquids, growing, reactive, decaying, static, states, duration, texture, smell, taste, touch, etc
  Think of where they come from, how they have been extracted, by whom, their lifecycle, their history, their trade, their price value, their exploitation, rarity, waste, off-the-shelf, availability, function, unfunction, forms of fabrication, etc... ... (make a PDF addressing those points).
  
  Bring them for a collective experimental day, list characteristics, qualities and behaviours and determine which interface could be derived from its properties.
  
  
  • Bring your own material that would be relevant to experiment with
  • Prototyping materials: paper, cardboard, rope, fabrics, wax, glue, plaster, flour, sugar, balloons, wires
  • Biomaterials/bioplastics: agar, yeast, SCOBY/Kombucha, other plant-based peels, soil
  • Malleable Fabrication: clay, latex, silicone, burlap, paint, fluorescent ink, metal, paper pulp/papier maché
  • Digital Fabrication: wood, PLA, plastics, styrofoam
    
  Collection Exercise III: Workshop assignments
  Using data to control sensors (gathering data, testing with sensors, controlling Arduino, fabrication processes with data, etc)
  
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• In-class Exercises, Performances & Weekly progress reviews (bring iterated prototype/sketches/experiments for each mentoring)
  
  
• Mid-Class Delivery: Booklet concept, prototype & inspirations
  PDF featuring texts and visuals: Showcase by group: Present Overall Concept, Main directions, Inspirations/Related Work (references, authors, dates, visuals) Work, Material inquiries, and Advanced Prototype 
  
  
• Final Project and Presentation: Interactive embodied fabricated apparatus
  

  Use Data-Collection, Generative Design Methods and Digital Fabrication to create an interactive body apparatus (wearable, fashion item, prosthesis, orthesis, prosthetics, implant, extension, external apparatus, architecture, etc).

  Questions to consider in your process:

  • What drives the design? (example: is it functional, speculation or critique)
  • Where could the data come from? (example: sensors)
  • How do you map the data to a geometry? (example: using a metaphor) 
  • Or is the form making process inspired by existing models? (example: fungus, cell division, mathematical geometry,…)
  • What are the materials used? What are their properties, lifecycle, etc
  • What is the fabrication process? 
  • What does your body extension connect with the surrounding environment?
  • What does it embody?
  • What meanings does it create?

  
  

  In groups of two or three four to five students 
  
  

• Presentation Format: Exhibition of Experiments & Performance with Final Prototypes together with an oral presentation.Final Presentation on: 21.4.23
  

  Documentation 
   A 'Journal' is developed by each group of students that reflects on experiments and learnings from the course. 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 lesson should be included as well

together with an oral presentation.

Final Presentation on: 21.4.23



• Documentation 
  
  
  • Final Documentation per usual guidelines: title, authors, abstract, hi-res pics, PDF with commentary text, 1mn 1-2mn video documentation
  • PDF featuring texts and visuals: Overall Concept, Main directions, Inspirations/Related Work (references, authors, dates, visuals), Material inquiries, Technologies used, and Final Prototype 
    

TIMETABLE

When times not indicated, students are expected to work on their own independent study time

Initials: (jb) Joëlle Bitton, (zy) Zaiqiao Ye, (gl) Guanyou Li