Interaction Design (cleaved)

Posted: January 27th, 2009 | Filed under: I'll Learn You |

I’ve taught Interaction a few times with mixed success. The struggle of any introductory art class is how to give students hands-on experience with all the dimensions of a new medium or field - technical, formal, conceptual. This time I’m abandoning attempts at synthesis, and just splitting it. We’ll do disegno on Tuesdays - concept, prototype, design, content, metaphor - and techné - sofware, hardware - on Thursdays. In principle I’ve always been against such a split, but I think this might be more than a little appropriate to these students, in this place and time. Follow along here if you care to see what we’re up to. (Using indexhibit for the site, not a great fit for teaching but we’ll see.)

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