Interdisciplinary IAD Module Fall 2018, in cooperation with DDK, DKV and DKM

Instructors

IAD:
Joëlle Bitton
Clemens Winkler

DDK:
Michael Simon
Manuel Fabritz

Guest lecturers:
Andreas Kohli (DKV)
Beate Schlingelhoff (DKM)

The module takes place over 3 weeks, from 04.12.2018 to 21.12.2018, from Tuesday to Friday, 9.00-17.00 - see timetable below for detailed hours and classrooms. 

Overview and Objectives: Hacking Values

Strollology:
We take a walk through the city of Zurich and develop our personal observation. On the base of the Swiss design theorist Lucius Burckhardt, who developed the technique of observing cultural landscapes (promenadology), we create our attitude to perception and to what might reality be. This is an opportunity for a deeper understanding of urban space, its infrastructure and interactions and thus the basis for a human or social-centered Design.

Dancing Exercise
see William Forsythe

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)
(Add. Link at ACM)

Prototyping/Learning by doing

Materials as metaphor
Materials have properties that can be changed. By manipulating and modifying those properties, we learn control conditions and can play with that system.

Social Experiments:
tbd.

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.

Final work 50% 

Group exercises/presentations 20% 

Journal Documentation 20% 

Class participation 10% 

Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  

Deliverables

1. Final Work: The format of the final outcome is up to the students. It could be: a performance, a prototype, a movie, an installation, a graphic work, an intervention, etc. It needs to be in adequation with the intention and the process.
2. Online Documentation in the form of a journal containing photos, recordings, text of the process (choice of online format is free). In addition, a final documentation package should include a 1mn video, 2-3 high quality photos and a short text.

Timetable

Name of Lecturers in brackets {} jb: Joëlle Bitton, cw: Clemens Winkler