Interdisciplinary IAD Module Fall 2020 in cooperation with Stage Design

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IAD:
Joëlle Bitton

DDK:
Manuel Fabritz

Guest lecturerslecturer:
Yuka Tamura, Kyoto Seika University, Japan

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From "life hacks", necessity-based "bricolage", such as Jugaad in India (see other terms in different countries*) to art-based and political-based targeted disruptions, "hacking" could be considered as a form of activism, akin to notions of resistance, disobedience, and subversion, especially as we refer here to "values". 
As such, finding affordable or personal solutions, going around established systems, repairing or subverting an object's use could be ways of gaining or regaining autonomy, gaining or regaining meaning, etc. The hacks themselves often have a playful quality to them that underlines that those forms of resistance are mostly physically non-confrontational and non-violent. 
Forms of hacking can also include statements of living and thriving within subcultures, forms of art and performance (ie. drag culture), taking counter hetero-normative and counter patriarchical actions (such as not being referred to with a gender-based pronoun).  
Finally, adopting and embracing failure, cracks, oddness and uncanniness could constitute again other forms of hacking, and be notably expressed with art, design and craft (see Kintsugi art for instance). 

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Dancing Exercise
In this method, we see performance as an anchor point in hacking values. Like William Forsythe, who's basic idea is taking ballet as a language with its own vocabulary and rules, to break it and bend it, we will take geometries like of classic dance to be twisted, tilt or pulled out of a line. We would like to mess with social conventions. We do not act "properly", like dancing in a discussion or talking in a dancing piece. Dancing becomes a method of investigation like Forsythe was remarking "I think by dancing I was able to understand a lot of things. I was able to intuit things about mathematics and philosophy … "(BBC Radio 3 2003, interview with John Tusa) So how do we understand the patterns of social dynamics around us and how do we stretch and break it apart to gain a better understanding?

link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forsythe_(choreographer)
link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/arts/design/the-shed-new-york-prelude.html

Bodystorming
Bodystorming is an improvisational brainstorm based on interaction and movement with the body. To remind participants that interactions are human and physical, to teach stakeholders empathy for users, and to get away from our computers. "Bodystorming is useful when you are designing devices or interior or exterior spaces. For example, you might use bodystorming to understand how users of different heights and ages would experience different versions of aircraft cabins (for example, what are the problems with lifting luggage in crowded planes from the floor to the overhead bins), or the layout of modern train cars. Bodystorming can be quite useful in understanding the experience of teams who work in close quarters like doctors and nurses in an operating room or the cooking staff in a restaurant. Bodystorming is a way to envision how people will interact with ubiquitous computing systems like smart homes and virtual meeting spaces." (Design Research at Autodesk)
link: Bodystorming as embodied Designing (ACM)

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• A picture which does not represent to the place
• The classic postcard
• An irritating place
• A photograph that provokes false assumptions
• A picture that shows a problem
• A situation: coincidence or intention?
• A photo taken at the wrong moment
• A place for a street art intervention
• The photo I wouldn't actually take
• Manipulated / not manipulated

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• manipulate

Exercice 04 - Adapting recipes from one another

• Define values of cooking & eating for yourself (ie. community act, local, self-sustaining, not wasting food, cheap, healthy, organic, animal friendly, from a particular brand, family tradition, etc…)
• Pick a recipe that reflects those values
• We share them together and redistribute them at random
• Each person has to cook a recipe they received but they have to transform it if it doesn't match their own values (ie. if it’s too expensive ingredients ,make it super cheap, or use leftovers, if it’s meat, make it vegan or vice versa, if it's with non-seasonal, local ingredients, make it so, etc, if you like to improvise, say where). You can also follow their instructions.
• Share with clear instructions and mention what your values are & how they are represented in the recipe
• Note what you changed from the recipe you received and why
• We'll cook together on Thursday

Exercice 05 - The city as a stage

Expectations and Gradings

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

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