Week 5: Design Your World
July 22 - July 26
Instructor: Corinne Takara
Campers will create models of architectural spaces and functional objects, and invent new design solutions for living spaces. They will go through the design thinking process as they construct cardboard models of their dream bedrooms, embedding circuitry into their structures. Campers will use Tinkercad (a 3D rendering tool) as well as traditional prototyping materials and circuitry in their design explorations. The projects will engage campers in calculating ratios and proportions to develop scale models.
Monday (July 22)
9:00am Housekeeping and intros
9:10am Ice Breaker Activity: Design Your Dream Chair
~ Design a scale model of a seating structure from pieces of white strips of paper.
(group discussion about design and scale)
~ Design your dream chair from tag board (you can add a bit of paper circuitry).
10:00 am BREAK
10:15 am Sharing back
~ Explain the needs your chair addresses
~ What was the hardest thing about this activity?
~ What was the most fun?
~ What surprised you?
10:30am Activity: Brainstorming on your dream bedroom.
~ Think about your user, you. Write and sketch thoughts.
~ Begin to draw floor plan on scale grid.
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
Activity option of Tinkercad
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Tuesday (July 23)
9:00am Warm Up: Sharing out ideas for dream rooms & putting floor plan on gridded board
~ Campers will spend a few minutes sharing ideas for their dream rooms.
~ They will complete their floor plans and translate it from grid paper to large sheet of cardboard.
~ Campers begin to build up the walls. (Review of mat knife skills.)
10:15am BREAK
10:30 am Activity: Continue on room design: wall construction and windows
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
Activity option of doing a spinning top with a pager motor.
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Wednesday (July 24)
9:00 am Activity/Lesson: Lights, fans and spinning doors
~ Ways to embed circuitry into the walls and floors of your dream bedroom.
~ Campers draw circuit paths in journal and start to map circuit paths on large models.
10:15 am BREAK
10:30 am Activity/Lesson: Guest speaker Jason Su and public space design exercise
11:30am Continue on room design
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
Option to explore Tinkercad to create something for your room
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Thursday (July 25)
9:00am Warm Up: Temporary Housing Collaborative Design:
How might you imagine a temporary housing unit for a particular situation?
9:30am Activity/Lesson: Temporary Housing Project:
~ Your team will select a type of temporary housing (disaster relief, refugee housing, homeless housing, etc.)
~ How might you design a living unit for sleeping? Eating, showering? gathering, storage?
~ What are other needs?
~ Explore the criteria and constraints and build a model of this system layout
10:15am BREAK
10:30am Activity: Continue on Temporary Housing Models
11:30am Activity: Share Temporary Housing Models
What emotional and physical needs does your design address?
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Friday (July 26)
9:00am Warm Up: Sharing progress on Dream Rooms
9:30am Activity: Complete designs of Temporary Housing and Dream Rooms
10:15am BREAK
10:30am Activity/Lesson: Sharing back: What was the biggest challenge? What was the most fun?
11:00 am Guest Speaker: TBD
12:30pm LUNCH
1:15pm TINKER TIME
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up and Prep for Showcase
3:30pm Student Showcase
4:30pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
July 22 - July 26
Instructor: Corinne Takara
Campers will create models of architectural spaces and functional objects, and invent new design solutions for living spaces. They will go through the design thinking process as they construct cardboard models of their dream bedrooms, embedding circuitry into their structures. Campers will use Tinkercad (a 3D rendering tool) as well as traditional prototyping materials and circuitry in their design explorations. The projects will engage campers in calculating ratios and proportions to develop scale models.
Monday (July 22)
9:00am Housekeeping and intros
9:10am Ice Breaker Activity: Design Your Dream Chair
~ Design a scale model of a seating structure from pieces of white strips of paper.
(group discussion about design and scale)
~ Design your dream chair from tag board (you can add a bit of paper circuitry).
10:00 am BREAK
10:15 am Sharing back
~ Explain the needs your chair addresses
~ What was the hardest thing about this activity?
~ What was the most fun?
~ What surprised you?
10:30am Activity: Brainstorming on your dream bedroom.
~ Think about your user, you. Write and sketch thoughts.
~ Begin to draw floor plan on scale grid.
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
Activity option of Tinkercad
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Tuesday (July 23)
9:00am Warm Up: Sharing out ideas for dream rooms & putting floor plan on gridded board
~ Campers will spend a few minutes sharing ideas for their dream rooms.
~ They will complete their floor plans and translate it from grid paper to large sheet of cardboard.
~ Campers begin to build up the walls. (Review of mat knife skills.)
10:15am BREAK
10:30 am Activity: Continue on room design: wall construction and windows
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
Activity option of doing a spinning top with a pager motor.
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Wednesday (July 24)
9:00 am Activity/Lesson: Lights, fans and spinning doors
~ Ways to embed circuitry into the walls and floors of your dream bedroom.
~ Campers draw circuit paths in journal and start to map circuit paths on large models.
10:15 am BREAK
10:30 am Activity/Lesson: Guest speaker Jason Su and public space design exercise
11:30am Continue on room design
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
Option to explore Tinkercad to create something for your room
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Thursday (July 25)
9:00am Warm Up: Temporary Housing Collaborative Design:
How might you imagine a temporary housing unit for a particular situation?
9:30am Activity/Lesson: Temporary Housing Project:
~ Your team will select a type of temporary housing (disaster relief, refugee housing, homeless housing, etc.)
~ How might you design a living unit for sleeping? Eating, showering? gathering, storage?
~ What are other needs?
~ Explore the criteria and constraints and build a model of this system layout
10:15am BREAK
10:30am Activity: Continue on Temporary Housing Models
11:30am Activity: Share Temporary Housing Models
What emotional and physical needs does your design address?
12:00pm LUNCH
12:45pm TINKER TIME
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up
3:00pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
Friday (July 26)
9:00am Warm Up: Sharing progress on Dream Rooms
9:30am Activity: Complete designs of Temporary Housing and Dream Rooms
10:15am BREAK
10:30am Activity/Lesson: Sharing back: What was the biggest challenge? What was the most fun?
11:00 am Guest Speaker: TBD
12:30pm LUNCH
1:15pm TINKER TIME
2:30pm Daily Camper Assessment
2:45pm Clean Up and Prep for Showcase
3:30pm Student Showcase
4:30pm Camper Pick Up
Photos
