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design activities

without electricity

  • collecting stuff around ← gleaning, recycling
  • nature observation
  • herbs, mushroom foraging
  • exploring material (loose parts) Simon Nicholson
  • plants, animal recognition, illustration
  • making a pencil from scratch (with charcoal not graphite)
  • designing a chair, a table
  • bow and arrow → tensegrity
  • bread
  • soup
  • maths
  • writing
  • reading
  • grafting
  • fighting habitat infection
  • fixing water leaks in a roof
  • access to water, filtering it
  • building a toy (Arvind Gupta)
  • building a mechanical weigh
  • making a brick
  • making a tensegrity object :: toy ::: hut :: big structure
  • reading a book
  • garden → plants → eating
  • sketching nature, observation
  • body related activity, building prosthetics
  • chalkboard building
  • kite making (fishing kite), kite mapping
  • balloons (jeff)
  • building a microscope - Manu Prakash foldoscope

with electricity

  • intro to electricity - what is a circuit ?
  • build a solar panel / solar panel controller
  • beam robotics
  • interactive textile (Leah, Nwanua workshops)
  • intro to electronics - blinking led
  • building a digital weigh (useful for cooking, chemistry, …)
  • building a pager (txt based mesh radio net)

with computers

  • browsing wikipedia
  • exploring linux shell
  • programming forth, LOGO, Etoys, Scratch… (non exhaustive list)
  • authoring a digital game
  • creating an hybrid game (SAR)
  • building a textile / paper keyboard
  • building a chorded keyboard
  • augmented reality marble circuit with video projectors
  • augmented tangible magnet shape linear progression
  • sketching → laser cut

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