Felix's Documentation of Teaching at NYUAD

Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 11:50 am – 13:05 am

• Attendance
• Trip date is fixed ⇒ 9./10. November 2018
• Essay 1 Re-Write
• CBC Article on Russ Foxx uses body implants to unlock doors and share data.
• Janni or Laurel (the explanation)

Thoughts for discussion:

• “Big Brother is Watching You” (George Orwell, 1984) ⇒ https://literarydevices.net/big-brother-is-watching-you/,
• Edward Snowden and his role in revealing numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.
• A future without policemen (article from //The National//)
• Dashboard cameras are not banned in UAE ⇒ “We are police” (article from Khaleej Times)
• Do you trust Siri and Alexa (and all the others) to not listen to your secrets?
• Do you see a danger in the availability of cheap and omni-present technology?

• At this point we want to use Rapid Prototyping to collect feedback on our ideas and to upgrade our concepts. Your homework is to create a prototype of your body extension using cardboard (Remember you can get cardboard from the mailroom…). Develop a prototype that communicates your idea best. This could be for example a 1:1 model of a product, or a scaled model of your spatial experience.