[bioundgrd] : IAP Course: 4.553 Perception Creatures: Inventing Ways of Sensing and Making Space

[Janice Chang]

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From: Renee A Caso <yammie at MIT.EDU<mailto:yammie at MIT.EDU>>
Date: December 9, 2013 2:04:44 PM ESCc: Athina Papadopoulou <athpap at mit.edu<mailto:athpap at mit.edu>>
Subject: Pls forward: IAP Course: 4.553 Perception Creatures: Inventing Ways of Sensing and Making Space

Dear Administrators,

The following IAP class invites graduate and undergraduate students from across disciplines. Please forward to your student lists if appropriate.

Thank you,
Renée A. Caso
Administrator of Academic Programs
MIT Department of Architecture

Room 7-337
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

phone: 617 253 7792
fax: 617-253-8993
yammie at mit.edu<mailto:yammie at mit.edu>
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IAP 14 WORKSHOP IN ARCHITECTURAL COMPUTATION

4.553 PERCEPTION CREATURES: INVENTING WAYS OF SENSING AND MAKING SPACE

JANUARY 13-29 2014, 10.00 AM -1.00 PM & 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Coordinator:
Terry Knight

Instructors:
Athina Papadopoulou
Cagri Hakan Zaman


How do the ways we sense space influence the way we make space? Can we challenge the ways we design by exploring the ways we perceive? This workshop aims to extend our understanding of architecture by studying the interaction of the body and the environment. Each student team will invent its own ‘creature’ that will act as a perception machine for the analysis and design of space. The creature, which can be either an extension of the body or an autonomous device, will provide the sensory data from a physical space. The sensory data will then form the perceptual framework for designing new spatial experiences. The workshop will be structured around three exercises: The first, to design and make the perception creature. The second, to experience a physical space through the creature’s body, collect and present the data. The third, to make a space from the creature’s experience by attaching material and volumetric qualities to sensory inputs.

Spatial understanding derives from the synergy of our senses. We experience a space not only by seeing but also by touching, listening, feeling, smelling and moving. Architectural discourse has to a great degree focused our understanding of space in visual patterns and formal elements. Aiming at extending our spatial understanding, this workshop actively engages students to uncover perceptual dimensions of space through an exploration of sensory and tracking technologies, designing and making. We will explore ways of capturing and representing the senses as well as ways of making space drawing upon the senses. The three main exercises will act as the workshop’s framework seeking answers to the following questions: How can we capture experiential qualities of space? How can we extract perceptual patterns from body movements, sensory inputs, environmental conditions or the activities happening in a space? How can perception act as generator for spatial formation? Students will speculate on and provide answers to these questions by designing and physically making their perception creatures. The creatures will be the perceptual engines for understanding space and designing space throughout the workshop.

The workshop is designed upon an interdisciplinary framework, extending basic design and making skills, and also building skills in programming, visualization and the use of sensors and microcontrollers. Students will form groups and work as cross-disciplinary teams throughout the workshop. By the end of the workshop students will be able to incorporate perceptual aspects in their design using sensor technologies, programming tools, and drawing upon a multisensory framework for architecture.


Eligibility:  Undergrad & Graduate. Undergraduate students across disciplines are particularly encouraged to register.

Credits: 6 Units

Enrollement: Limited to 15 students

Fee: $30 for supplies

Course Website & Syllabus: http://architecture.mit.edu/subject/iap-2014-4553

Contact: Athina Papadopoulou (athpap at mit.edu<mailto:athpap at mit.edu>) / Cagri H. Zaman (zaman at mit.edu<mailto:zaman at mit.edu>)





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