Learning Objectives
The students can communicate speculative visual prototypes in a clear way and debate their ideas with their classmates.
They can derive actions that can be used in the now from design futuring work and have reflected their own creative process between design & artistic methods and are able to communicate it clearly in a learning journal.
The students work together in interdisciplinary groups of two and reflect their creative collaboration in a learning journal.
They learn the basics of design futuring creative methods to create artifacts for challenging & influencing the present, they know the basics of 3d modeling and rendering in blender and the basics of photobashing in photoshop.
They can integrate external image assets and AI generated images into one coherent visual prototype.
Content
The module is structured into three iterative sprints, combining theoretical lectures, practical hands-on classes, and interdisciplinary group project work. Each sprint concludes with a presentation and debate. Then the groups and methodologies will change in the next iteration.
First Sprint: Students learn design methods and their application in project settings. Working in interdisciplinary pairs, they create artifacts based on a specified, current topic that depict near-future scenarios. Discussions also cover the fundamentals of conceptualization, including refinement and storytelling for presentation techniques.
Second Sprint: Focus shifts to artistic methods, where students create artworks related to a predetermined topic parallel to practical hands-on classes and interdisciplinary project work.
Third Sprint: Emphasizes hybrid methodologies for conceptual development. The design & artistic methods are combined in order to reflect and find their own creative method. Outcome will be similar like in the sprints before.
The project work results in a variety of artifacts, including images, objects, or videos, where students have the opportunity to express and articulate their conceptualizations through their chosen medium into aesthetic experiences for discussion and reflection.
Course language
English
Lecturers
Christophe Merkle
