Week 11¶

Design Studio¶

Teachers:

Oscar Tomico

Tomás Vivanco

1. Reflect on your own RtD toolbox based on “your new me” and create a “new workspace”.

I had created a new workspace based on my new investigation subject, I started with the subject ” How to grow almost anything”, but its interesting how the subject starts to grow itself.¶

My new workspace have new areas, like an instagram page, where im collecting all of the “growed” things that I find dalyly, like parrots nest on a light tower, or furballs made by peoples hair in transtation, thats a very nice activity to do because it feeds the workspace almost everyday with things that I see everyday.¶

Im adding as well state of the art projects, to see what can I learn from them, and what its missing in that state, Would be great to found some new ways in the field.¶

I had notice that my studio relates to two main fields, materials and energy, so I will focus my project In that direction. I will make profund observation of this subjects in the process of the master.¶

2. Select the main roles of prototyping and other design activities that you want to use based on the context you are in (onion mapping from the Atlas) and add them to your design space.

My way of prototiping, at the moment has been near to different Roles, at first I thought that my process was accumulative, going deeper into the “grow” subject, but I have realised that the concept is more abstract, that only grow biological things, so It has been a mix of comparative, and probing as well.¶

3. Do your first design experiment applying one or different roles of prototyping.

Experiments:

Details of the experiments are in the “Project” tab.

Grow Materials to generate something Usefull.

The first experiment starts from the question of “Can I add value to some existing object, growing something into it?¶

The first experiment was to grow salt cristals in an earing, showing in a simple way, that a growed system can add value to a simple object as an earing. Also in terms of time, jewellery is very acord because the salt don´t need that much time to grow in it.¶

2)Make an action that normally you will use an object to acomplish, with the minimum resources.

I had saw that technique in youtube, to see underwater only with my hands, I do it all the time when I dont have my snorkelling googles. This experiment has amazed me because the concept of useing nothing but your body to make a task, is something that we don´t question that much in our normal lifes, we allways think that we need “something” to archieve our goals, for example if we teach our children to do this technique, we are avoiding buying that cheap snorkeling googles that are selled on the beach, used once and thtown away, because they were broken, bad quality, or the kid wasnt interested anymore.¶

3)Using natures energy to create something

The third one aims to use the mechanical energy of living organisms to enable them to comunicate with humans when they move.(output)¶

For this project I had used the energy of the Carnivore plant, so when it picked a bug or a fly, it will move and let me know when it catches something. For the experiment I had attached to aluminum foil, because of the weight, to each leaf of the plant, and the foil were connected to an arduino with the Led program, so the foils were the “circuit cut”, and when they get togheter, they turn the Led On. This project made me wonder a lot of questions, for example how would be to work with nature, and not nature work for you, also the moving “energy” of the plant is a very interesting way to keep investigating natural and not conventional uses of energy..¶

New Toolbox

Position ourselves in the Design space and make a reflection.

Week 5

A reflection on how you are documenting and communicating your work

At the moment, The documentation process, has been a constant auto learning process, as we use the design space, github, and web platforms, Its neccesary to make a “routine” to make the documenting, more efficient.¶

Allways my documentation process starts from writing and drawing on my notebook, because Its faster, and more memorable for me.¶

My second tool is my cellphone, for pictures, video and audio recording, makes easier to gather info, to make gifs or photo edition.¶

Another app that I use a lot is “Arduino Science Journal”, Is very good because its possible to use the sensors of the phone to make experiments, also works like a science journal to take pictures and write on them.¶

Then the final step is uploading everything to github webpage and miro design space. The good thing of git, is that anybody can enter and take anything from the webpage.¶

3 min Video aprox wich can include multiple ways of video journaling documenting the course tech beyond myth. (EXPERIMENT!!)

Week 9

Documenting Tech beyond myth¶

The goal of the documentation was to record audios from the teachers in their lectures, gathering the most interesting words and phrases, and manage to put them all in a certain order to make a beat from the better parts of the course.¶

The second part was to gather one word from each classmate to get what they got from the course, from learnings to feelings.¶

The hardwarte used was a OP-1 Sintetizer, a zoom recorder, iphone for audios.¶

The software used was logic pro, illustrator, and imovie.¶

A reflection that i had is that the mic recorder is a very complementary tool for lectures because if its used properly, it is very low sized in memory, and its very accesible and hearable, like a podcast or something similar. I have a good auditive memory, so this tool complements very well with the sketchbook where I write and draw all the time.¶

TERM 2¶

Three learnings from the first term:

The Magic machine.
1PP Video
Scale Diagram

Last update: June 25, 2022