Today’s class includes the remaining three project presentations.
Each remaining project group will present their work for critique.
Today’s class includes one project presentation and other final interventions.
Private practice talk for the one group presenting today.
Work session for everyone else.
Near the end of class one group will present their work for critique.
Today’s class is primarily devoted to final interventions.
Quick progress review.
Have you tested your project telematically using the MQTT server?
How can we best help you finish?
Work session: we’ll answer questions as needed.
Today’s class is primarily devoted to check-ins and hooking up air motors.
Quick progress review.
Air Pumps Demo: during class Garth will give a demonstration on wiring up the electronic air pumps to the Circuit Playgrounds. Students using air pumps will participate and get their own air pumps going.
Work session: Students not using the air pumps will have a work session guided by a technique Olivia will introduce.
Today’s class is primarily devoted to check-ins and worktime.
Clarification of final deadlines and the scheduled exam period.
Each student will receive a custom-made bite size assignment to complete during class. We will share out at the end of class.
Today’s class is primarily devoted to presentation and discussion.
Paired group breakouts to mutually discuss ideas.
Each group will share their idea for Project 2: Active Proxy Body with the whole class.
Brief individual group meetings to discuss near-term objectives.
Today’s class is primarily devoted to presentation and discussion.
Each group will share their idea for Project 2: Active Proxy Body with the whole class.
Paired group breakouts to mutually discuss ideas.
Presentation of new motor pump technology. (see videos below)
Brief individual group meetings to discuss near-term objectives.
Videos of pumps with different inflatables:
Video of a tour of pump, wires and tubes:
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Introduce Project 2: Active Proxy Body
Share examples (see below)
Research activity.
Subtela: Black Touchpad Dress and Wearable Absence
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Discussion about approaches to critique.
Project presentations.
Today’s class is primarily devoted to discussion and review.
More precedent work (see below).
Anyone have any particular updates they would like to share with the class?
Individual group breakout sessions. Garth and Olivia will move from group to group to consult.
Due: Thursday, April 8 (Day 19).
Your Project 1 is due for our next class. In this final stretch of the project you should work to resolve any elements of your project. Thursday’s class will be “show time”. Your main focus should be looking at what is working well in your project and then documenting your project well.
If your project is fully working, focus on creating compelling documentation that tells the narrative of your work. If your project is not fully realized how you have planned, take a close look at it and ask, what is working? Focus on finding and finishing what is working. Find an underlining authentic elements that are working. Then use documentation to tell the story of the part that is working.
Documenting the narrative of the work means observing the work and describing what the work is actually doing. It is not the story of the process (we have already done that with all the other posts), it is now the story of the finished work. It is often very hard to see a work separate from what we had hoped it would become. This is the time to challenge yourself to the work for itself.
What series of photos and/or videos will tell the best story? How can you direct our focus with your documentation? How can your title or your writing help us see what you are seeing?
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/defextiles/overview/
https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/