‘Rooms’ – Middlesex University Arduino Workshop
As part of the MA Design for Interactive Media course at Middlesex University, there was a particularly charming little project where the task is to make a ’small object of delight’. (In fact we enjoyed it so much that we expanded the idea and made it part of Seaweed’s work too…) We always thought it was a shame that at the time we didn’t have the knowledge to make it a physical object of delight, so this eventually led to the birth of our first workshop ran for the MA DIM students of 2008/2009.
We finally decided on the theme of ‘Rooms’, where students had to decide on a room of their choice alongside with an adjective. We picked this theme as it gave scope for students to rethink their intimate surroundings as well as providing a definite environment to design for. After 6 sessions in a secluded little room reminescent of a school science lab, going through programming games, various prototypes and idea discussions, we were really pleased with all of their final work.
Here are some of their lovely artefacts:
Middlesex Arduino Workshop Overview from jessica wolpert on Vimeo.
You can see the complete set of videos here: Seaweedstudio vimeo group
Tracy the soldering expert
Success at last for Emma
Gina dreams of windmills
Tags: arduino, lansdown centre, middlesex univserity, physical computing
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:27 pm
[...] As part of Seaweed Studio, I ran a physical interaction design workshop with Jessica Wolpert under the theme ‘Rooms’ conducted at Middlesex University for MA Design for Interactive Media students of 2008/2009. Students produced a wide range of ’small object of delight’ which range from a table cloth which prompts fast eaters to slow down, to mesmerising interactive spinning lights. Read more. [...]