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TOPIC: Embodied Fabrication  (or Data Driven Ortheses)  


The course proposes an examination and speculation of technologies as they related to Embodied Interaction : mobile computing, wearable interfaces, location-based interactions and digital fabrication...
This examination covers societal, ethical and social influences.

This year, the course puts an emphasis on 'Embodied Fabrication', where digital fabrication is approached from the perspective of embodiment.
With more flexible and more accessible modes of fabrication, and with social aspects of fabrication emerging in recent years, we have the opportunity to investigate ways that we can transform our physical selves and environments.

During this module, we'll uncover some of these possibilities by designing and informing body orthotics with personal data.
Topics may include:
• material intimacy
• processes of fabrication / physical interactions that impact digital fabrication
• wearability
• performative aspects

Research questions:

What does interaction Design bring to the topic of Digital Fabrication? 

How can the theory of embodied interaction influence digital fabrication processes? 

Can the outcome of the fabrication reflect the theory of embodiment? 

What tools/technology can be used to facilitate this process? 

How can data be visualised in physical form? Can the data be understood, or is it a purely aesthetic output?

Deliverables 

  • Kickoff Project 
  • Final Project and Presentation
  • Documentation 
  • Attendance during lessons  

Contents 

Tools and Software

Readings

Embodied Interaction: Exploring the Foundations of a New Approach to HCI

http://acadia.org/papers

Creating physical visualizations with makervis

Supporting the design and fabrication of physical visualizations

Tutorials

Rhino

Grashopper

Arduino wireless sensor kit

Kick off Exercise Brief: Analogue Data Collection 

Look for sources of body data from the realworld. What traces do we leave behind that give us indications about our movements, vital signs or emotions? 

Record videos or take photos to indicate and attemp to extract the data. 

Pressentation: max 5 minutes 

Group or individual work


Main Project Brief: Data Driven Orthesis

Use Data-Colection, Generative Design Methods and Digital Fabrication to create a Data Driven Orthesis. 

  • What drives the design? (example: is it function, speculation or critique)
  • Where could the data come from? (example: wearable sensors)
  • What metaphor could you use?
  • What inspires the form making process (example: fungus, cell division, mathematical geometry,…)

Pressenataion Format: Exihibition of Experiments and Final Protypes together with a verbal pressenation.

Presentation on: 14.12.2017

Documenation Format: PDF

Groups of three Students



///////// Work in progress below this line  /////////

Kick off Exercise: finding data analog / digital

Ideation - speed dating 

Looking for datasorces

Exercise: Finding a concept 


Teams:

Team 1: Adonis Bou Chakra, Maude Kyra Alexandra Richner, Enea Francesco Ingellis

Team 2: Lara Natalia Hänny, Fabrice Spahn, Andreas Dobler

Team 3: Mariana Pote, Jonatan Wetter, Alexander Blaschek

Team 4: Severin Candrian, Claudio Rainolter, Nadine Cocina

Team 5: Fernando Obieta, Gabriel Bach, Nadine Prigann


Embodied Fabrication Preliminary notes

Embodiment & Fabrication

  • material intimacy
  • processes of fabrication / physical interactions that impact digital fab
  • physical position towards machine / proximity
  • wearability 
  • personal data
  • performative aspects

Topic in relation to Wearables

  • body extensions
  • visualising what is internalised
  • wearing the inside / out
  • bespoke fabrication for the body

Personal Data

  • making things from personal data
  • design by data
  • data storytelling / creativity
  • form follows data
  • tangible release of data

Pedagogy

  • Digital fab skills reminder for 5th semester students
  • Tech: working with presence sensor
  • See text and structure of previous class: https://selffab.wordpress.com


What does interaction Design bring to the topic of Digital Fabrication? 

How can the theory of embodied influence digital fabrication processes? 

Can the outcome of the fabrication reflect the theory of embodiment? 

What tools/technology can be used to facilitate this process? 

How cad data be visualised in physical form? Can the data be read, or is transformed purely into an aesthetic output? 

Tools and Inspiration: 

I've ordered the breathing radar sensor from xethru, which might be interesting tool for collecting vital functions data (Luke) 

https://www.xethru.com/


Possible collaboration partners:

Could be an interesting contact for looking at motion/performance as an input for generating form. (Luke)

Hope you're well. Something you might be interested in - I met with director/choreographer Saar Magal recently, she's preparing for a new theater piece and and is interested in tracking movement and sound from performers and visualising it in real-time. The look/function is open, the interesting thing would be the possibility to project the visualisation back into a live performance. She seems open to ideas, and will be holding workshops with her performers to test out ideas later this year. I thought i'd put you in touch in case it fits somehow with what you or the students are doing.


Worflow

Students experiment a process in a Triangle : data collection / data mapping / fabrication

Focus on a methodology / pedagogy tool that students can reuse after (toolkit)

Pedagogical framework

how to start the creative process: with a problem, question or just with the desire to work with a specific dataset, or with an end result in mind

at least give a context to start the creative process: body/wearables/prosthetics/additional body parts

what do I need to mine/survey for a week to find the right extra body part I need


Assignment:

Possible titles

  • my perfekt new bodypart


Data collection (week 1):

  • Question: What data / problem to focus on.
  • Collect data: analog / digital
  • Presentations of the range of data collection: analog forms, electronic sensors, quantified self tools, users studies, users outputs (emails, text messages) // personal context of the body or the space around the body
  • Tutorial for a couple of sensors
  • Body analysis / scan (Kinect/iPhone App) 

Inputs:

  • 3D scanning (florian / luke)
  • Thermoplast input (florian)
  • Make volumes out of 2D surfaces (folds/origami), understand geometry
    possible tools: pepakura, tinkercad, …


Data mapping (week 2)

  • …

Inputs:

  • Use of 3D Printer (luke)
  • Refresher on Laser and 123Dmake, etc (luke)

Fabrication (week 3 / week 4)

  • We can include notions of growth or transformation (robotics/soft robotics)

Inputs:

  • …

Software/Technology

  • Tinkercad
  • Anatomy
  • Soft robotics
  • Swarms
  • Critical design