Week 1 Exploring environments.
OCTOBER 25 TUESDAY – WHAT ARE ENVIRONMENTS?
OCTOBER 27 THURSDAY – ENVIRONMENTS: THRESHOLDS, ENTER, ENGAGE, EXIT.
Week 2 Describe and sketch environments
NOVEMBER 1 TUESDAY – ASSIGNMENT 1 WORK SESSION– HOLOLENS DEMO
NOVEMBER 3 THURSDAY –ASSIGNMENT 1 WORK SESSION – DESK CRITIQUE
Week 3 Experience digital, physical, and hybrid environments.
NOVEMBER 8 TUESDAY -ASSIGNMENT 1 CRIT SESSION
NOVEMBER 10 THURSDAY- IN CLASS DESK CRITIQUE
Week 4 Design Studio Learning Environments
NOVEMBER 15 TUESDAY – EXPERIENCE AND NOTICE ENVIRONMENTS
NOVEMBER 17 THURSDAY- Sketch, model, and prototype.
Week 5 Prototype & Iterate
NOVEMBER 22 TUESDAY – Environments’ materials
NOVEMBER 24 THURSDAY – NO CLASS THANKSGIVING
NOVEMBER 29 TUESDAY – Time in environments
DECEMBER 01 THURSDAY – DESK CRITIQUE
DECEMBER 06 TUESDAY – DESK CRITIQUE
DECEMBER 08 THURSDAY – PRESENTATION
DECEMBER 13 TUESDAY – FINAL ENVIRONMENTS SHOW
*This schedule is subject to change
Readings
• Christopher Alexander (1977), pattern language
• Jennifer Tidwell (2005), Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design “Design patterns for interfaces”
• Douglas K. van Dunne, Jason Hong, James Landay (2006), The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites
• Bill Scott, Theresa Neil (2009), Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
• Roger Barker (1968), Ecological Psychology: Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior – Environmental Psychology chapter on Milieu (Physical, social, behavior)
• Walter Isaacson (2011), Steve Jobs (book) – chapter on the design of Mac Store
• Dan Brown (2007), Communicating Design: developing web site documentation for design and planning
• Bill Buxton (2007), Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
• Scott McCloud (1994), Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
• Mark Weiser (1999), The Computer for the 21st Century. – Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox, CA
• John Dewey (1934), Art as Experience
• Italo Calvino (1972), Invisible Cities
• Michel de Certeau (1984), The Practice of Everyday Life
• Gaston Bachelard (1969), The Poetics of Space
• Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge (2001), Atlas of Cyberspace
References & Videos
Using Lights
• James Turrell, Anthony McCall, Gianni Colombo, Seth Riskin
• László Moholy-Nagy (1895 – 1946), Light space modulator
Using Materials, Objects
• Carl Andre, Richard Serra
Optical illusion, Visual Studies in Space
• Felice Varini
Experiential
• Roger Ebert (1983), KOYAANISQUATSI
• Dériv Situationist International
• John Maeda (1993), Human Powered Computer Experiment
• Lev Manovich (2014), On Broadway
Hybrid
• John Underkoffler, Steven Spielberg (2002), Minority Report
• Microsoft’s Concept Future Vision 2020, Vision Video
• Hiroshi Ishii, Brygg Ullmer (1997), ambientRoom
• Dave Rose, enchantedObjects
• Pranav Mistry (2009), Sixth Sense
Immersive/ Tangible + Digital + Environmental
• Bruce Branit (2007), World Builder
• Art+Com (1989), Berlin-Cyber City
• John Underkoffler, Hiroshi Ishii (1999), URP: a luminous-tangible workbench for urban planning and design
• Microsoft (2015), HoloLens
Purely Digital
• Alex Dragulescu, Spam Architecture
• Oculus Rift, story studio
Actuated Environments in City
• Changing Places, MIT Media Lab, Changing Home
SpatioTemporal
• Alan Lightman (1992), Einstein’s Dreams
• Art+Com (1996), timescope
• Alvaro Cassinelli (2005), Khronos projector
Prototyping Resources
• IFTTT | IFTTT
• Philips Hue | website
• Amazon Echo | Dev Kit
• SAM labs | samlabs
• Prototyping Tools | http://www.cooper.com/prototyping-tools
Open Source DIY
• Phil Van Allen NET Lab Toolkit
• James Tichner, Josh Walton Spacebrew
• Additional Resources: Tom Igoe (2007), Making Things Talk
• Arduino, Processing, MakeyMakey, openFrameworks, Cinder
Video Sketching
• Jinha Lee, Sean Follmer, Radical Kitchen
• Chris Woebken, Sensual Interfaces
• AfterEffects, Cinema 4D | Lynda.com
• Doors foldable
