Timetable 2025

Free Flow

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?

• 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}

Group study

Kick-Off exercise

• Analogue Data Collection 

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

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}

Bits&Atoms

• Sensory & Listening exercises {jb, jr}

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... 

*THINK OF MATERIALS IN TERMS OF THE SENSORY EXPERIENCE THEY PROVIDE

9.30

Presentation Assignments (2min/student) 

Input 

• Methods for 2 projects {jb}
  

Discussion in groups - Part IV

• Decide your group (2-4 people)

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

Group study

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

13.30 Theory class:

• Embodiment - perception - Sensory & Listening - movement

Group study

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

first ideas/mentorings

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

Minor

Bits&Atoms

Group study

Group study

Group study

Atelier Walk-through/tech questions {jr}

13.30 Theory class x2

Embodying abstraction -
Collective experience & phenomena

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 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}

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

• 25min / team

Minor

Bits&Atoms

9.00-12.00

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

Group study

Group study

13.00 Theory class 

Data / Body / Choreography

• how dance or performance represents data

• What meaning do you give to the data? How does it support and anchor your concepts? What metaphors do you use for mapping? 

Group study

13.00 Public Presentation I (choice of location)

+ debrief in class

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 - Prep final

Atelier Walk-through 

Group study

Group study 

Mentoring - Advanced Prototype IV - iterations

{jb}

• 30min / team

13.00 Public Presentation II -
(choice of location)

Collective experience
+ debrief in class

{jb, jr}

Minor

Bits&Atoms

Group study

Group study - Prep final

Atelier Walk-through {jr}

13.30 Theory class - Sweet Dreams 

Overall reflection

Mentoring - Advanced Prototype IV - close to completed - visits in situ

• 30min / team

13.00 Final Presentation -
(choice of location)

Collective experience

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

{jb, jr}

Minor

Documentation

- Deadline 17.00