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BE HERE NOW: Wares for Sharing

Humans first developed tools for survival, then for personal pleasure and finally for social engagement. These three phases are the topic of this course, in which we will research and design for how natural human impulses shape our current social tools. With a focus on experience be it physical, emotional or virtual students will create products or services that aim to embrace this very moment in history we’re living in.

The class will be given weekly assignments and readings. There will be 3 main assignments.

1. Observation (opening your senses and getting inspiration from your environment)
2. Process driven assignment where you document, sketch, build user scenarios and visualize a product idea.
3. A project that needs to be built and executed using design process. (Something to do with location, time and self - Be Here Now.)

All the work produced in this class will be portfolio quality. Grading is based on successful completion of all assignments, blogging, class participation and attendance.

Class Syllabus

YOUR DOCUMENTATION:

• Sarah Hallacher - http://blog.sarahkhallacher.com/category/beherenow/
• Doug Kanter http://dougkanter.wordpress.com
• Courtney Mitchell - http://courtney-mitchell.com/blog/
• Chris Egervary - http://itp.nyu.edu/~cte209/myblog
• Adria Navarro - http://itp.adrianavarro.net/?cat=7
• Evan Emolo - http://www.evanemolo.com/itp-journal/category/be-here-now
• Ananya Mukherjee- http://totallyblavatsky.wordpress.com/category/wares-for-sharing/
• Dong Ik(D.I) Shin - Be Here Now
• Valentina Camacho - http://itp.nyu.edu/~vcm233/itpval/
• Bruna Silva - http://itp.nyu.edu/~bms415/blog/category/be-here-now/