We are going to meet twice a week, Monday and Friday in X 1.031 .
Thinkshop: Monday 9:00 – 12:15 X 1.031
Workshop: Friday 9:00 – 12:15 X 1.031
Please note: Due to the Covid19 situation we will conduct our course remotely from 23.3. until 20.4.2020. We are going to use the following tools (Don’t worry, I will show you how to use them. It’s easy!): Slack, Zoom, Google Drive, WordPress
Week 0: 23.3. – 27.3.
- Wednesday: 25.3.
- Definitive List of Participants
Part 1: Inspiration: “Virtual Botany”
Week 1: 30.3. – 3.4.
- Monday: 30.3. Exercise 1 “Perception” – Analog
- Lecture 1: “Why Mixed Reality?”
- Conversation 1: “Your interests and goals”
- Lecture 2: “What we are going to make and how”
- Exercise: Draw your plant
- Friday: 3.4. Exercise 1 “Perception” – Digital
- Lecture: “What is real? Plato and Aristotle – Idea vs. Substance”
- Tutorial: What is Unity?
- Tutorial: 3D Modelling in Blender
- Exercise: Create a virtual model of your plant
Week 2: 6.4. – 10.4.
- Monday: 6.4. Exercise 2 “Immersion” – Digital
- Lecture 1: “Mind and Body – René Descartes’ use of Mathematics to connect us with the world”
- Lecture 2: “Clarification: What is VR, AR, MR?”
- Tutorial 1: What are Google Cardboard and Oculus Quest
- Tutorial 2: How to make a Google Cardboard app
- Exercise: Create a virtual environment for your plant in Blender
- Friday: 10.4. – No class – Easter Holidays
Week 3: 13.4. – 17.4.
- Monday: 13.4. No class – Easter Holidays
- Friday: 17.4. Exercise 2 “Immersion” – Digital
- Lecture 1: “What can we know? D. Hume vs. I. Kant”
- Lecture 2: “Why is VR such a big deal?”
- Lecture3: “UI Design – Part 1”
- Exercise: Create a virtual world for your plant in Google Cardboard
Week 4: 20.4. – 24.4.
- Monday: 20.4. Exercise 3 “Augmentation” – Analog
- Lecture 1: “Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception”
- Lecture 2: “UI Design – Part 2”
- Exercise: Draw an invisible aspect of your plant
- Friday: 24.4. Exercise 3 “Augmentation” – Digital
- Lecture 1: “Jean-Paul Sartre – Perception vs. Imagination”
- Lecture 2: “Augmented Reality”
- “Layers of Perception -> Infographic basics”
- Tutorial 1: How to create an AR app with Spark AR Studio
- Tutorial 2: How to create an AR app with Unity
- Exercise: Augment your plant
Week 5: 27.4. – 1.5.
- Monday: 27.4. No Class
- Friday: 1.5. No Class – Holiday
Week 6: 4.5. – 8.5.
- Monday: 4.5. Reflexion
- Conversation: “On feedback”
- Task: Augment your plant
- Friday: 8.5. Exercise 4 “Translation”
- Conversation: “Your augmented plants”
- Lecture: “Digitisation: from physical to virtual – and back!”
- Exercise: Add a physical computed extension to your plant
Week 7: 11.5. – 15.5.
- Monday: 11.5. Putting things into context
- Ideation: Translation
- Lecture: Connecting with Nature
- Conversation: Biodesign (worldwide) and what we do (here)
- Task 1: Finish the physical computed extension
- Task 2: Come up with 2 ideas for a (virtual) botanical exhibition (1 virtual, 1 physical)
- Friday: 15.5. Virtual Botany
- Ideation: Ideas for our (virtual) botanical exhibition
- Conversation: What did we learn so far?
- Conversation: “What do you want to do this semester?”
- Lecture: “The difference between a topic and an idea
- Task 1: Work on Virtual Botany show -> depends on our ideas
- Task 2: What would you like to do this semester? (topic, medium, format)
Part 2: Free Project “Natural Reality”
Week 8: 18.5. – 22.5.
- Monday: 18.5. Thinkshop
- Lecture: “Tips for your project”
- Conversation: “What do you want to do this semester?”
- Task: Define a topic and come up with 3 ideas
- Friday: 22.5. – Thinkshop
Week 9: 25.5. – 29.5.
- Monday: 25.5. Thinkshop
- Critique: Rough concept
- Open Experiment – first experimental results and insights
- Product Design – Problem Definition
- Friday: 29.5. No class – Holidays
Week 10: 1.6. – 5.6.
- Monday: 1.6. No class – Holidays
- Friday: 29.5. Workshop
Week 11: 8.6. – 12.6.
- Monday: 8.6. Thinkshop
- Critique: Final Concept
- Friday: 12.6. – Workshop
Week 10: 15.6. – 19.6.
- Monday: 15.6. Thinkshop
- Friday: 19.6. Workshop
Part 3: Publishing
Week 11: 22.6. – 26.6.
- Monday: 22.6. Workshop
- Friday: 26.6. Workshop
Week 12: 29.6. – 4.7.
- Monday: 29.6. Workshop
- Friday: 4.7. Presentation