Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas

C2-W006
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 9:00am – 11:30am

Welcome

  1. Introduction Felix
    1. Open calendar, OpenOffice, OpenStudio,
    2. Courses
    3. Other activities: Buddy Bear, FILE,
    4. Old projects,
    5. Research (NTSI Lab, Plastic Recycling Lab)
  2. Additional Resources:
    1. Advanced Manufacturing Workshop (Esteban, policies, machines, materials, training (hand tools, laser cutter, CNC (carvey),…)
    2. Engineering Design Studio (Matt, policies, machines, materials, kitchen)
  3. About you –> Why are you taking this course? ⇒ Attendance list

Prelude – Introduction to the Course

  1. Syllabus
    1. Structure: Project Colloquium (2:40hr session) + Seminar (1x 1:15hr session), discussion topics)
    2. Learning Outcomes, textbooks, films (movie theatre), rubric, assessment
    3. Homework
  2. NYU classes: 1x essay , 2x case study (presentation template), 5x project reports(template))
  3. Examples for Bricolage furniture projects (2018) and audio objects (2017):
    1. Prototypes from Design Fundamentals course 2016
    2. My Little Soundbombs (2006), Eyelight, F Light…
    3. Soundmachines (2011)
    4. Why shifting from Audio object to furniture to chairs?
    5. Furniture examples: Bauhaus Light, LOEHR, Sebastian Scherer, Rotor, …
  4. Guest talks and course trips (Qasr Al Hosn, overnight field trip, …)
  5. Exhibition at the end of Spring-Semester
  6. Questions?

Overture – Lecture on Time Planning and Project Management

  1. Project Management Tools (example: Gantt, https://realtimeboard.com/app/dashboard/RealTimeBoard…)
  2. Agile Project Management using Kanban/Scrum

Homework

  1. Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (chapter 1 (p. 9–19), p. 176–177),
  2. Develop a Gantt-Chart that reflects the design stages of your project for this semester.
  3. Write your friends or family at home and ask them to send you a picture of the chairs in their house. Bring the pictures to next class.