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When it comes to climate change, election, or coronavirus spread, telling a story through words can be limited. We need visuals like maps, data visualization, or photography to understand complex and hard to grasp information. Visual journalism is a way of telling stories through visuals. Due to the development of computation and technology, there has […]

Are you energized by the possibility of creating equitable products, services and content? Are you interested in being a more intentional designer? Are you committed to racial equity? As designers, you are trained to solve problems, but the pull of quickly doing/solving/redesigning can actually cause more harm. There are countless examples of racially biased practices […]

Ziv Schneider / Julia Irwin How does the ability to capture and publish transmedia pieces lend itself to documentarystorytelling and journalism? How are traditional genres enriched by the addition of newmedia techniques, including 360 film, photogrammetry, depth sensing and spatializedaudio? And how can the use of these techniques help to evolve the definition of nonfictionstorytelling?This […]

Want to make an interface that can be squished, stretched, stroked, or smooshed? This course will introduce the use of electronic textiles as sensors. Focus will be placed on physical interaction design – working with the affordances of these materials to create interfaces designed to invite or demand diverse types of physical interaction. This course […]

In the 1960’s and 70’s, club culture was a social phenomenon that introduced new forms of technologies, experiences and designs. In this course, students will study a variety of different cultures (from social, to visual to sound) from pre 1600s to present day. These learnings will realize historical patterns and psychologies displayed throughout the decades. […]

All computing is physical. We work with computational systems by taking action with our bodies, on devices. The construction of computing devices, and their use, consumes raw materials and energy as well. In short, the virtual always has physical consequences. This course is about how to design digital devices for our bodies\’ capabilities.  To realize […]

Daniel Shiffman This course focuses on programming strategies and techniques behind procedural analysis and generation of text-based data. We’ll explore topics ranging from evaluating text according to its statistical properties to the automated production of text with probabilistic methods to text visualization. Students will learn server-side and client-side JavaScript programming and develop projects that can […]

Benjamin Light Time to get your hands dirty. Prototypes need to be created, motors have to bemounted, enclosures must be built. Understanding how things are fabricated makesyou a better maker.But hardware is hard. You can’t simply copy and paste an object or working device (notyet anyway), fabrication skills and techniques need to be developed and […]

This course focuses on the Design, User Testing, and Production of the final Thesis project. Students will meet with the Thesis Advisor bi-weekly, often in small study groups or 1:1 meetings. Prerequisite: Thesis Part 1: Research and Development. All other students will take the traditional 4.0-unit Thesis course.

\”Detournement\” is the practice of hijacking cultural or artistic materials and reusing them to produce new works that both counter and explicate the original intent or ideology of the source material. In this class students will learn how to scrape massive quantities of material from the internet using the Python programming language, and then deploy […]

Is it a plaything? Sculpture? Nostalgia? A Product? Art toys exist at the center of a unique Venn diagram. Each student in this class will develop an original limited-edition art toy. We will cover toy fabrication, character design, material selection, packaging design, and art toy culture. The class will be fabrication heavy, there will be […]

All computing is physical. We work with computational systems by taking action with our bodies, on devices. The construction of computing devices, and their use, consumes raw materials and energy as well. In short, the virtual always has physical consequences. This course is about how to design digital devices for our bodies\’ capabilities.  To realize […]

From the crass rattle of early pager motors to the more sophisticated purr of the iPhone taptic engine the ability to buzz has slowly worked its way into our devices. This course focuses on interaction design for non-visual feedback. Specifically it will explore how haptic feedback can be better utilized and integrated into handhelds, wearables, objects, and environments – basically anything that we touch or that touches us.

Johann Diedrick Listening is not something we do through hearing alone. Engaging with multiple perspectives, from Deaf studies and critiques of ableist hearing ideologies, to the possibilities and pitfalls presented through machine listening and imaginative sonic speculation, we will playfully deconstruct and question what it means to listen at all. Each week, readings will be […]