Personal Expression & Wearable Technologies
NYU, Interactive Telecommunications Program
This class explores the possibility of developing wearable devices &
accessories as
means to social experiments and agents of expressivity and communication.
As the class traces the relationship between the body, fashion, technology
and social interaction students will be asked to actively explore this
trajectory and develop ideas and devices around them. What would an
electronic gesture be like? How can technology & fashion allow people
to dynamically express themselves? What is a subversive technology?
Weekly assignments will frame the theoretical discourse while a final
project will help students synthesize theoretical considerations and
design practices in the wearable computing space.
class syllabus (.pdf)
The Softness of Things: Technology in Space and Form
NYU, Interactive Telecommunications Program
Jasper Johns once wrote in his notebook: "Take an object. Do something
to it. Do something else to it." In this class we investigate what
it means to "do things" to objects in ways that transforms
them and our relationship to them. We experiment with materials and
objects, stretching their limits and exploring their relationship to
space and the body. These investigations are grounded in an understanding
of the interactional possibilities of gestures, social and spatial dynamics,
networks and open source systems while we develop a new set of artifacts
and construction techniques. Softness, modularity, adaptability and
re-configurability, washability, power management, connectors and ways
to engage the senses (and sensors) are just some of the ideas and topics
we examine through weekly assignments and social experiments.
class syllabus (.pdf)
