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Proposed Calendar

Meeting Notes

Future meetings: July 19, August 2, August 16, August 30 Room 14-400, 1:00-3:00

Auxilliary culture & cognition meeting July 19, noon, room 14-700

Note: "the machine" enables anyone to change the number of classes, in order to see how that change affects the whole plan. It will be here shortly. (Thanks Rob!)

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INVENTORY OF SKILLS THAT UNDERGRADUATES NEED TO ACQUIRE

Everyone takes 1st year foundations: what are they?

• writing

others????

Knowing how to design

• formal (composition, color, line, composition, form, proximity, hierarchy, contrast...)

• iterative design process: (Analyze context, design, prototype, test)

• Design methods

Knowing how to represent designs

• Sketching

• Writing

• Photography

• Basic videography for documentation/communication (a bit different in focus than sotrytelling per se)

• CAD

• Solid modelling

• Parametric modelling

• Animation

• Software models,

Toolkit architectures

Knowing the artifact -- the internal view of the artifact.

• Text & Image

• Software tools for Prototyping interfaces

• Prototyping 3D objects (this is a composite skill that needs to be unpacked)

• Interactive animation (depending on the domain, may be a representational concern)

• Interface design

• Electronics

• Mechanics

• Statics

• Materials

• Manufacturing processes

• web design

• exhibition design

• designing for public spaces

• game design

Knowing how to work with others

• Teamwork

• Collaboration

Understanding designs in context -- the external view of the artifact.

• design history

• Ethnography

• task analysis

• user testing

• Usability

• semiotics

• cultural and media studies

• Speculative design (combines cultural studies with making)

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