‘Rooms’ – Middlesex University Arduino Workshop

jesse — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:44:58 +0000

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

Eat Seaweed » lansdown centre

‘Rooms’ – Middlesex University Arduino Workshop