Timetable 2024

Morning 
(starting 9:00 unless noted otherwise)

9.30
Kick-off course (syllabus presentation) {jb, jr}

Input 

• Embodied Interaction/Fabrication {jb}
  
  

Discussion in groups Part I: From ideation to in-depth concept {jb, jr}

• Discuss the points in the lecture that inspired you, troubled you, confused you - what stayed. What experience could you create from these interactions?

10.00

• Input

  • References, case studies & working with live data {jr}
  
  

Discussion in groups Part II:

• Discuss the points in the lecture that inspired you. What experience could you create from these interactions? {jb, jr}

• Sensory & Listening exercises {jb, jr}

9.30

Presentation Assignments (2min/student) 

Input 

• Methods for 2 projects {jb}
  

Discussion in groups - Part IV

• Decide your group (2-4 people)

*we may finish at 12.30

Afternoon 
(starting 13:00 unless noted otherwise)

Kick-Off exercise

• Analogue Data Collection 

***In prep for next week, start collecting materials (or growing them)***

***16:30 - 19:00: Mandatory Exchange Semester Talks

Presentation of Kick-off exercise (2min/student) 

Discussion in groups - Part III: From ideation to in-depth concept

• What embodied interaction experience do you want to create?
• What inspires it? (material, relation, environment, data, topic...)
• What role does it play, what does it provoke?
• What data makes sense to use to ground your directions? 
• What metaphor could be relevant?

{jb}

Group study

Morning

Independent study:

Material workshop prep - post research on Miro board - ADD sources - and prep your demo showcasing an interactive experience with the material you picked

*where the material comes from,
-how it has been extracted,
-by whom (labor involved),
-their lifecycle,
-their history,
-their trade (who exports, imports, with what tariffs, duties...),
-their legislation (what are the treaties legislating the trade & their consumption...),
-their price value,
-their exploitation (which companies are involved, fields...),
-their environmental and human impact
-their affordances
+rarity, waste, off-the-shelf, availability, function, unfunction, forms of fabrication, etc... 

Material workshop day {jb, jr}

9.00 Set up materials in room w/ JR 

9.30 Demo & presentations

- bring the materials you have collected and create interfaces that take into account their properties and affordances
+ we project the Miro Board on wall that displays your investigations into the material you chose

14.30 In the afternoon, each group proposes a collective experiment around one of the materials presented in class

9.30
Data & Materials: first ideas/mentorings

• Input/Discussion: What meaning do you give to the data? How does it support and anchor your concepts? What metaphors do you use for mapping? How to interact with machines and materials in processes of fabrication? How do materials support prototyping concepts? {jb}
  
  
• Quick Catch-up per group/first mentorings {jb}

Group study

10:00 - approx. 11:30

Atelier Walk-through meeting each group in atelier space
{jr}

10.15-11.25
Class presentation: First prototypes and research directions (8mn/group)

Present Initial low-tech prototype on body (show/demo actual work) and Answer the questions we asked in the groups discussion: 

• what experience are you designing? what is at the core the sense it makes and how the various design factors support your decisions?
• how is the body (bodies) & its properties impacted?
• from your design interest/wish, reflect on what drives it: data, material, fabrication technique, function, critique, curiosity, inspiration..?
• what is the data you will use and how do you collect it? (api, sensor, live, dataset, personal, collective etc…)
• how will you map it?
• how will you fabricate it? (technology used, materials used…)
• which interface for which material?
• what is the  larger socio-eco-political context of the material you are using? of your general approach?
• what story are you telling?

{jb, jr}

(*Cancelled: "Input: Aspects of choreography & forms of embodied performance" - info sent by email or other format)

Group study

Group study

Atelier Walk-through/tech questions {jr}

13.00
Mentoring/Presentations in separate groups - Materials experiments & Advanced Prototype II
{jb, jr}

• 25min / team

Group study

Group study

from 10.30:
Brief catch-up/short mentorings {jb}

11.00 Public Presentation - Catwalk in public/ Toni bridge

+ debrief in class

{jb, jr}

12:30 - 15:00

Mentoring/Tech questions - Advanced Prototype III At Body/Final Scale
{jr}

• 30min / team
• 12:30 - 13:00
• 13:00 - 13:30
• 13:30 - 14:00
• 14:15 - 14:45

Group study

17.00 Delivery: PDF with Overall Concept, Main directions (see questions from last week), Inspirations/Related Work, Material inquiries, and Prototype 

Group study

Group study

Group study

Atelier Walk-through {jr}

Group study 

11.00 Advanced Presentation - Choreography - Various places in or outside Toni (find your location)
{jb, jr}

13.00 Mentoring - Advanced Prototype IV - pushing iteration after catwalk
{jb}

• 30min / team

4.K15 

Group study

Group study

Group study: prep final presentation

final prep / set-up

Documentation

- Deadline 17.00

14.15-15.15 Last checks 
Completed Prototype V
{jb, jr}

• 15min / team

13.00 Final Presentation - Performance

+Circle session
Last Discussion - Students Review lessons learned + Feedback session

{jb, jr}

location tbd