**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