Computation in Design Lab
The CiD Lab is an initiative that provides students working on their final project the opportunity to share and address technical challenges, discuss their findings, and improve and test their development at various stages of their project realisation during weekly lab sessions.
This lab supports projects and initiatives focused on the understanding and application of computation and digital technologies. It is able to advise students on technical, aesthetic, and user interaction challenges through discussion, consultation, and practical problem solving.
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Computation in Design Lab
Lab: a space for experimentation, play, discovery, testing; a place for labor or work, from the Latin laborare, "to work."
Questions you may want to ask yourself
What do I want to achieve by joining this Lab?
What do I want to get out of this Lab?
How can the Lab help me in my project development?
What can I show and share?
On a scale from 1 to 10, how confident am I currently with my practical work?
There will be a schedule where you will be required to attend classes together with your peers and there will be sessions where you can schedule an appointment to discuss and resolve technical, conceptual, usability or aesthetics related questions concerning your own project.
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Questions we will address relate to
aesthetics
conceptual
experiential
interaction
technical
usability
workflow
challenges, issues, obstacles, success stories.
Weekly Schedule
Explore
Ideate
Make
Test
Share
Move down for a brief overview of the weekly session, week 2 to 14.
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Weekly Schedule
Weekly Sessions 1 – 4
no class
1
Introduction to Lab. You share your development, challenges and ambitions in view of the milestones and outcomes you want to achieve this semester. We will hear about your work-in-progress.
2
As homework, prepare for Concept-and-Tech review in week 3
No Class
Chinese New Year
4
Concept-and-Tech review. You will bring and share your project’s current (or planned) technical implementations together with their concepts. Best if you can do a demonstration of one or more of your (successful or failed) experiments and/or prototypes. Discussions and constructive group-feedback should help students to refine their approach and for them to progress. We will see your work-in-progress.
3
As homework, prepare and formulate challenges to be addressed during your individual consultation in week 5 or 6
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Weekly Schedule
Weekly Sessions 5 – 8
Consultation by appointment review concept-and-tech challenges
5
Consultation by appointment review concept-and-tech challenges
6
No Class
Project Week
8
Workshop 1 on Documentation. Show me. You can bring some of your current practical outcomes (work-in-progress) which you can then use to document (pictures and videos). Feedback will be given on the spot, the focus is on going through and practicing the documentation process. Students can work in pairs.
7
Individual
Individual
As homework, prepare some of your current practical outcomes and bring to our next class
All
If you make use of the open session, as homework prepare demos, try-outs, etc. and describe in writing the struggles you are facing, so we can get right to the source of the problem.
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Weekly Schedule
Weekly Sessions 9 – 12
Open session reviewing technical issues and struggles individually and/or together in a group
9
Workshop 2 on Testing. Have you tried it? Has someone else tried it? How to test your work and receive feedback.
10
Work-in-progress demonstration and testing. This is a good opportunity for you to review the current status of your work and its usability by making it available by preparing a test setup and a questionnaire. From here you can review, refine and ideally move forward to finalize your work.
11
Optional
All
As homework, prepare some of your current practical outcomes and bring to our next class
Optional
As homework, prepare and formulate challenges to be addressed during your individual consultation in week 12 or 13
12
Individual
Consultation by appointment how to finalize your work
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Weekly Schedule
Weekly Sessions 13 – 14
13
Final Review of individual projects with feedback session
14
All
Individual
Consultation by appointment how to finalize your work
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Weekly Schedule
Activity Journey Map
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Week 2
Journey Map
You will be working in pairs. and each of you will draw and map out a timeline of your studio project, how did it go so far?
Highs
Lows
Now
Then
What are some low points and what are the high points you encountered over time? Be visual (draw doodles) and add short descriptive notes.
10
You can draw your journey map onto a piece of paper using the above as your starting point
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Week 2
You will be working in pairs. As a team of two, each of you will draw and map out a timeline of your studio project, how did it go so far?
Highs
Lows
Now
Then
What are the low points and what are the high points? Be visual (draw doodles) and add short descriptive notes.
10
Together, pick a low point for each of you and discuss how it could be resolved. Use the sheet of paper on which you drew your journey map. Then, look at some high points and share.
Journey Map
Action
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Sharing
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Activity
Pre Mortem
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Week 2
The only way to experience an experience is to experience it.
Bill Moggridge
was a British designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO
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Activity
Learning through Analysis
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Week 3
From the list of projects in the following, select one or more based on interest. Then analyse a project's documentation by following the link to that project.
What you will find is a detailed description, breakdown and presentation that differs from project to project. Each projects takes a different approach, angle and focus.
Which approach do you think applies best to your own project development?
What is the emphasis and target audience of the project(s) you are analyzing?
Evaluate and discuss in a small group, what are the take away points for you to progress in your work?
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Week 3
Case Studies
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Case Studies
Scenario Builder
Scenario
Video documentation
Tech rundown
Demonstration
Prototype
Lifestyle
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Case Studies
How-to
Video documentation
Functionality
Prototype
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Case Studies
How-to
Video documentation
Interaction
Experience
Tech demonstration
Prototype
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Case Studies
Thought process
Diagrams
Synthesis
Mockup
Idea
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Case Studies
Scenario
Workable
Video documentation
Making
Speculation
Prototype
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Case Studies
Scenario
Environment
Video documentation
Tech setup
Tech rundown
Prototype
Activity
Photoshoot
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This week we are going on an excursion to the Photo Studio at Winstedt. Find a number of reference images for the photo shoot below.
Week 7
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Testing
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This week we are going on an excursion to the Photo Studio at Winstedt. Find a number of reference images for the photo shoot below.
Week 7
Prepwork
Moodboarding
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Presenting and establishing relationships and examples through visual references that depict aspects of the intended outcome.
This will help to better communicate and illustrate ideas through a series of selected visual references and examples.
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A mood board here should be a printable document that contains images which illustrate examples of a particular intention or implementation you have in mind. This document can be designed as a pdf or a website. The latter can be helpful when video or sound needs to be included into your mood board.
First step Use the mood board to assemble a series of images that portray your intention right away. Your image collection can grow over time.
Second step Organise and create relationships between the footage you have collected.
Third step Actively use your mood board to explain your intention to others to better articulate your intention based on existing examples.
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Sample mood board page The example on the left illustrates form, scale, aesthetics and audience interaction based on selected reference images.
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Technology Considerations
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Frameworking
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Meetings
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Workflow Planner
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Techrider
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Experiments and Demos
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Testing
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Documentation
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Work done with the intention to produce knowledge for use by others
Work done with the intention to produce a feasible solution to improve a given situation
Object (often material) created during a design process
Artifact used in research that can realize the (inter)action that is studied
Understanding about the world that can be communicated to others
Question, hypothesis, theory, investigation, interpretation, generalization, validation, discovery
Idea and concept generation, synthesis, development, integration, discovery, prototyping, invention, implementation, realization
Sketch, blueprint, brief, specifications, vision, proposal, recommendation, business plan
Implementation, realization, test, exploration, solution, proof of concept, construction
Theory, book, publication, expertise
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The ways in which design professionals conduct their work
Brief, contract, client, stakeholder, studio
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Warmup 2
Using paper, rapid prototype a _______________ by crumbling and/or folding and/or tearing it.
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Fill in the blank, then make.
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Warmup 3
Do you have enough space to work hands-on?
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Set up your space so that you and your teammate feel comfortable. Lay out your tools and materials.
When done, document and take photos of Warmup 1 to 3 with your mobile phone.
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You will work in a team of two. Give your team a name.
The team
Working on weird and strange things is preferred over playing safe.
Writing
Do less
Doodling
Sketching
Shaping
Tinkering
Making
Coding
Do more
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What we need to do now is to formulate an idea, to find a starting point.
From the things you brought to class, from the results of the warm-up exercises, each of you sketches a simple idea for an object, which you then put into action by making it.
When in doubt, add the element of play as a criteria from the things you brought to class, from the results of the warm-up exercises, each of you sketches a simple idea for an object, which you then put into action by making it.
Object
Idea
Material
Tool
Purpose
Getting started
Things you brought to class
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Approach
Idea A, derived from warmup 1
Create an object that addressed the outcome from Warmup 1.
Idea B, derived from Things you will bring 1
Create an object that is inspired by one of the objects that you brought with you.
Idea C, derived from Things you will bring 2
Create an object that represents or embodies one of the ideas you have drawn out.
Make A, use your own materials
Start making with one or more of the materials that you brought with you
Make B, use materials provided
Start making with one or more of the materials provided by the workshop
Make C, combine 1 and 2
Start making using any of the materials from above, do make sure to return the materials after the workshop if possible.
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As a team you can work on 2 individual prototypes or on 1 together.
Make
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Why, where, how, when, what?
Approach
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Debrief
Until our second session next week, please complete your making.
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Transition
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Graduation Project | Prototyping Workshop
As your homework till next week's session, work on your prototype outside of the classroom and bring it to our next session. Make changes, enhancements, simplify where necessary, show it to others and ask for feedback.
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Let's take some time to complete your prototype. Is there anything left to do or important questions or issues to clarify?
Work in progress
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Is your work interactive? Get one or two of your classmates to use, test and give feedback (don't forget to document).
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Graduation Project | Prototyping Workshop
Now document your outcomes. Use a camera, a white background and appropriate lighting to capture your result(s) in a photo shoot.
Documenting
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Take a few minutes to reflect on your outcome and the process of making over the past 7 days.
Use a piece of paper to collect and organise your thoughts, quickly sketch out a journey map.
Prepare for sharing
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Struggles
Experiences
Chance encounters
Happy accidents
Achievements
Next steps
Identify
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Graduation Project | Prototyping Workshop
Sharing of outcomes and experiences
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