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Spring 2021: March 30 - May 7.

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Spring 2021: March 30 - May 7.

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

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The module takes place from March 30 - May 7, over 6 weeks, online, from Tuesday to Friday each week, 9.00-17.00 - see detailed hours in calendar below.
Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, home assignments and independent study blocks.
The studio course runs in parallel with the seminar course "Interaction Design Methods" and is a platform to apply ideas and concepts discussed in the seminar, therefore the two courses are actually an ensemble.
Projects are conducted in groups of 4 students. 

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Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  

Deliverables

• Group presentations

• 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 10 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)
   

• Final Work

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• get there (identify roles, needs, actions)
  
  
• Week 5 First cut of video from Production Week
  Delivered by Midnight Sunday 2.05 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
    
• Home assignments
  

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• • , sketches for each day should be included as well
    

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

• Bin, Guan, Johannes & Micaela
• Nadia, Sandro, Silvan & Svenja
• Elena, Eleonora, Nicola & Réjane
• Fabrizio, Janosch, Miguel & Thore

Calendar

JB: Dr. Joëlle Bitton, NF: Nicole Foesterl

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