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

Collective experience - Choreography
Embodying theory

• 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}
  

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 Matters / 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}

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