Time/Date: Jan 26, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Room: Conference Room
Instructor: Rita Cheng
Description
How do you get content on the web? How do you get content on the web… for as cheaply as possible? What’s a web server anyways? This talk is a practical overview to the technical things that make the web work.
Time/Date: Jan 26, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Room: Room 20
Instructor: Katya Rozanova
Description
Or How We Learned To Stop Being Capitalism’s Pawns and Began Designing For A Better Collective Future. // What is Design Thinking? Is it related to human-centered design? Are these terms interchangeable? Let’s delve into what it is and what it isn’t. In the past decade term Design Thinking has been coopted to produce socially irresponsible products like the fascistic design of Alexa 🙂 and devastating-to-infrastructure designs of Uber or Lyft. I propose we examine and defend the original methodologies. How can we ensure that design is holistic, systemic, and socially responsible? Is it a question of stronger regulations (socialist-leaning), design licenses (individual responsibility), or something else? Can you love capitalism and still be a “Design Thinker”? After a brief history and examples, I hope that “the student will become the master” and you will tell me your thoughts. Looking forward to the discussion.
Prerequisites
your design punk attitude
Time/Date: Jan 26, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Room: Soft Lab
Instructor: Sandy Hsieh
Description
Learn to analyze and construct a tote bag from scratch. I will go over what we have available in the Soft Lab, how to use common sense and basic tools for patternmaking, and most importantly, how to thread and use an industrial sewing machine. Students taking the Wearables course are encouraged to attend.
Prerequisites
If you have a pair of pants that need hemming or a shirt with a missing/loose button, bring it. We can go over basic alterations. Any specific alterations/amendments, please DM me directly before the workshop or book office hours.
I plan to document the workshop for students who miss the session but want to learn how to use the sewing machine.
Time/Date: Jan 26, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Room: Room 50
Instructor: Oren Shoham
Description
Shaders are programs that run in parallel on your computer’s graphics card. They’re really fast, so you can use them for real-time image processing, rendering 3D graphics, and even machine learning. In this workshop, we’ll talk about the differences between a CPU and a GPU, how to think about computation in parallel, go over some use cases for shaders, and write some basic GLSL code together.
Prerequisites
Laptop
Time/Date: Jan 26, 2:30 PM – 4 PM
Room: Conference Room
Instructor: Hadar Ben-Tzur
Description
How to establish a unique brand voice? How can I give a unique tone to my projects using design?? We’ll take a look at a few examples, and try to explain in words how a brand conveys to us a certain feeling, and how it all stems from defining the user experience. In the second half, we’ll have a quick and dirty design workshop to create a design language for an imaginary brand or a real project!
Prerequisites
Bring a laptop, and a project you are working on and wish to create a more compelling visual language for (it can be a very small project, nothing fancy)
No prior knowledge required. It will be fun.
Time/Date: Jan 26, 2 PM – 3 PM
Room: Room 20
Instructor: August Luhrs
Description
Your death is inevitable. Your loved ones are going to be very upset by this happening (probably), so why would you put even more stress on them by not leaving any instructions as to your final wishes? In this fun and light workshop, we’ll go over unique ideas on how to write your will and make it legal, what an Advance Directive is and why you need one, and some modern websites that offer opportunities for you to have more control over that thing you don’t have any control over.
Prerequisites
A pen and an organic, decomposing body
You need to have heard about “death”, it would take up too much time to explain
Time/Date: Jan 26, 12 PM – 2 PM
Room: Room 15
Instructor: Barak Chamo
Description
Introduction to the node-based TouchDesigner environment. We’ll focus on procedural 2D & 3D visuals and designing interactive visual systems that react to movement, sound and whatever
Time/Date: Jan 26, 12 PM – 2 PM
Room: Room 50
Instructor: Caleb Savage
Description
Build a functioning camera using common household items and develop the pictures in a darkroom.
Prerequisites
Optional: a container which can be light-proofed EX: Oatmeal box, pringles can, cookie tin, shoebox, etc. and maybe some duct tape.
Time/Date: Jan 26, 12 PM – 2 PM
Room: Conference Room
Instructor: Jim Schmitz
Description
This workshop will provide you with a basic understanding of Python Data Science tools. I will talk about the Pandas and matplotlib libraries, often used for working with tabular data and making a variety of data visualizations.
Prerequisites
Preferably my Intro to Python workshop (Friday at 12) but it isn’t necessary.
Bring laptop with Chrome installed and working Internet connection.
Time/Date: Jan 26, 12 PM – 1:30 PM
Room: Room 20
Instructor: Hayeon Hwang & Yeseul Song
Description
Have you been wondering what the big lights hanging on the ceiling of the lounge are? Do you want to be able to control them? We’ll introduce what DMX stage lights are, what types of dmx lights exist and how you can control them from your computer (Processing/OpenFrameworks) and with physical interfaces (Arduino).
Prerequisites
Sunglasses 😎 Laptop, Arduino: recommended, but not necessary.