Context:

• 2009
• For The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
• Idea generation workshop for design students working on their final project.

Methods & Deliverables:

• Concept, design, production and delivery of idea generation workshop
• Choice of ‘place’, a live and work building in Berlin
• Design and production of workshop modules and process materials

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If you want to design for communication in a building…

… you are invited to experience the building with your body before becoming brainy!

This workshop was for 15 interaction design students from Norway who were visiting Berlin for a few days. Their final degree work was going to be around designing a ‘communication piece’ for a new part of their university building, some kind of interaction design – most likely a device or software, maybe something electronic.

I suggested to make things tangible:

The building became the canvas for their ideas, the barrier tape their metaphor for communication in the building, card board and tape their sketching material.
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The Workshop in Images

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Questions and answers were posed from window to window. Where did you buy that lamp I always see and really like? Who are you, opposite neighbour, who I see every day and who I never spoke to? What about going for lunch together one day?

Once explored, ideas were sketched with card board and tape, through stop motion photography, triggered by 'real' impulses from real people in a real building.

Students are mocking up possible behaviours of windows in the building...

... in the camera image, the tape on the glass lines up with the windows of the building.