Living with your own Ideas
Temporal aspects of embodied living with prototypes
Faculty
Angella Mackey
Kristina Andersen
Oscar Tomico
Syllabus and Learning Objectives
Students will participate in a series of workshop activities that address challenges for quickly embodying concepts, and addressing them through lived experiences.
Throughout the week, students will engage in early and easy making processes. They will address experiences of these things through the body. Each student will move through: · Lo-fi version of their project/concept · Different time scales · Move from speculation to having a component of reality for their concept.
On the final day students will present an embodied concept.
Total Duration
Classes: 3-6pm, Mon-Fri
Student work hours: 20 hours
Structure and Phases
Day 1: Introduction: Make a magic machine.
Day 2: Work in the studio to build your idea.
Day 3: Workshop: Living with the thing.
Day 4: Workshop: Living with the thing.
Day 5: Student presentations. Critique and discussion.
Output
Research artefacts, lo-fi version of project/concept, personal reflection.
Grading Method
Quality of the research artifacts and of the findings.
Depth of the personal reflection.
ANGELLA MACKEY
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Professional BIO
The four instructors facilitating this workshop series span a wide range of skills and experience in interaction design, industrial design, wearables, fashion, media art, and design research.
KRISTINA ANDERSEN
Email Address
Professional BIO
Kristina Andersen is an Assistant Professor in the Future Everyday cluster with the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her work is concerned with how we can enable one another to imagine our possible technological futures through digital craftsmanship and collaborations with semi intelligent machines in the context of material practices of soft fiber-based things. How can we innovate, design, and act around that which is yet to be imagined? Who gets to drive innovation processes? How can we reframe our methodologies to include the complex cultural, political, and personal aspects of life? She suggests that we may approach this through making (and thinking about) technology, communities, and materials as a way to construct visions of the unknown. Andersen was based at STEIM for 14 years, took part in the Making Things Public art research program at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and led the Instruments and Interfaces Master’s Degree program at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She is a longstanding advisor for the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and she currently acts as an expert reviewer for H2020, ICT, and FET for both application and project reviews. Andersen co-chaired CHI art 2018, CHI Design 2019 and 2020, and DIS pictorials 2019.