DESIGN YOUR WORLD
Week 6 - Aug 7-11
Instructor - Corinne Okada Takara
Students will create models of architectural spaces, 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 bedrooms that include embedded circuitry. Students will use Tinkercad (a 3D rendering tool) as well as traditional prototyping materials and circuitry in their design explorations. The projects will engage students in calculating ratios and proportions to develop scale models.
Week Schedule
Monday:
- Design your dream chair (rapid prototyping challenge using only cardboard , tape and scissors)
- Introduction to Design Thinking. How might you re-imagine your bedroom? What features would your dream bedroom have? Begin designing your room on a grid floor plan and then scale up to a large scale model.
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- Lights, fans and spinning doors: Embedding circuitry into the walls and floors of your dream bedroom
- Looking in/ Looking out: Learning construction techniques for cardboard windows and doors
- Start to design a flat pack piece of furniture for your room. We will laser cut on Maker[Space]Ship on Wed
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- Visit from San Jose Public Library Maker[Space]Ship
- Looking in/ Looking out: Learning construction techniques for cardboard windows and doors
- Introduction to Tinkercad (designing an element for your dream bedroom in CAD)
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- Mars Habitat Collaborative Project: How might you imagine a habitat for Mars? How might you design a space for eating, sleeping, playing, or growing food? Explore the criteria and constraints and build a model of a design solutions.
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- Completion day: work on Dream Rooms and Mars Habitats
- Camper presentations of one of their models
- End of camp week Showcase from 3:30-4:30pm
- (camp day photos) (additional photos)
