Timetable 2025

Free Flow

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

Quick Exercises

Input 

• Embodied Interaction {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 Presentation of Kick-off exercise (2min/student)
 

Discussion in groups Part II:

• From ideation to in-depth concept

  • What embodied interaction experience do you want to create?
  • What drives your concept?

{jb}

Group study

Kick-Off exercise

• Analogue Data Collection 

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

13.15

• Input + Exercise

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

Discussion in groups - Part III: 

• Discuss the points in the lecture that inspired you. What experience could you create from these interactions? 
• + reflective questions
  

{jb, jr}

Bits&Atoms

• Sensory & Listening exercises {jb, jr}

Material workshop day {jb, jr}

9.45 Set up materials in room w/ JR 

10.15 Demo & presentations

- bring the materials you have collected and create interfaces that take into account their properties and affordances

Group study

Group study

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

13.30 Theory class (2 sessions)

Quick Exercises

Embodied Interaction & Sensing / case studies
+

• Discussion in groups - Part IV

  • Decide your group (2-4 people)

(jb, jr)

*Material workshop prep - post research on Miro board - prep your demo showcasing an interactive experience with the material you picked (individual work)

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

13.00 first ideas/mentorings

• Quick Catch-up per group/first mentorings {jb}

Minor

Bits&Atoms

Group study

Group study

Group study

Atelier Walk-through/project lookout {jr}

13.30 Theory class (2 sessions)

Embodying Abstraction -
Collective experience & phenomena / Rapid prototyping exercise

(jb, jr)

13.00
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 are bodies & its properties impacted?
• how do you involve your participants?
• from your design interest/wish, reflect on what drives it: data, material, fabrication technique, function, critique, curiosity, inspiration..?
• what story are you telling?

{jb, jr}

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

• 25min / team

Minor

Bits&Atoms

10.00-12.00

Mentorings/tech questions- Advanced Prototype III At Body/Final Scale
{jr}

Group study

Group study

13.00 Theory class 

Data / Body / Choreography

• How data, body and choreography can relate to one another?

(jb, jr)

Group study

14.30
Atelier Walk-through/ quick check-in

(jb, jr)

13.00 Public Experience I "low-tech"
(choice of location+audience)

+ debrief in class

publish on blog recap: Overall Concept, Main directions (see questions from last week), Inspirations/Related Work, Material inquiries, and Prototype 

{jb, jr}

Minor

Group study

Group study 

Group study

Group study 

13.00 Theory class:
Decentering part II -  Interactions with Ecosystems (how to interact without interacting)

(jb, jr)

Mentoring - Advanced Prototype IV - iterations

{jb}

• 30min / team

Atelier Walk-through / time on need basis

(jr)

14.00 Public Experience II - Advanced
(choice of location+audience)

Collective experience
+ debrief in class

{jb, jr}

Minor

Week 6 - FINAL PRODUCTION & EXPERIENCE 

Mo. 24.11

Group study

Group study

Group study - Prep final

Last minute questions {jr}

13.00 Theory class - Sweet Dreams 

Overall reflections

(jb, jr)

Mentoring - Advanced Prototype IV - close to completed - visits in situ
(jb, jr)

• 30min / team

13.00 Final Public Experience -
(choice of location+audience)

Collective experience

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

Mini-Party

{jb, jr}

Minor

Documentation

- Deadline Monday 1.12 9.00