Gabriella Levine

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Teaching at CIID Summer Course 2013: Exploring Biomimetic Interfaces

I just returned from teaching a 2 week summer session course at CIID

It is an amazing place. And it was an intense and fantastic 2 weeks. It was a mix of Human – Based Design Thinking, Biomimetic practices, Programming, creative ideas, interactivity, and stacks of Arduinos. To see some of the course work see this site.

 

 

We arrived the first day: CIID Exploring Biomimetic Interfaces and went to the school.

We explored the lab and the equipment. They have a VERSA laser cutter, 3d printer, electronics bench, a woodshop, and a lot of spare materials.
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From there we head to the apartment and wandered the stairs until we were able to find the right apartment :)

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We got our bikes!
And the course began
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The first day of class:
Design Challenge: raft lanterns
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Design Thinking Crash Course : redesign the playground

 

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Day 2: Arduino Intro and lab #1. hardcore hands on.

 

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And assignment #1: Design solution from the perspective of a non human user
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By day 3 already, we were planning for the final project and doing some analog user testing:
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and analog fabrication, building, designing, planting, creating, conceiving, etc

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mid term presentations:
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AND A LOT OF WORK, late night wine, and planning:
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and some picnics and some drinks: 
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and fun in chrisitiania
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some citi swimming:
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Finally the weekend came. We biked to Louisiana to see Tara Donovan.
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Then the work resumed, as the week started back up. 
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And the arduino stacks grew:
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lots of late night work [it only doesn’t look dark because it got dark aroundplay 10:30 because of the long days]:
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and a computer disaster disconnecting Genevieve from the rest of the world:
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and a field trip to labitat:
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And a long week later:
projects and presentations

METADATA : Exemplifying that unwillingly, we are all contributing to Metadata’s collection, but that can either be percieved positive or negative
THE ANTS PROJECT : encouraging recycling based on a point system modeled after ant behaviour
BIIKE – a gps tracker and data logging system to encourage biking in cities
ANTHILL – bringing sharing to mainstream with intelligent share stations setup in local supermarkets
SYMBO – a biomimetic flying trash collecting drone 
CITY PULSE – Urban Data and energy contributing both to information aggregation as well as public art and compelling visualisations

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And the presentations:

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And FINALLY after an intense and sleepless week, the barbeque of celebration.
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