Locations:
Albert Brooks Classroom – 2nd floor Engineering Bldg. Studio Blue Robotics and Theater lab: Room 234, Engineering Building
A projects course for art, engineering and architectural students where imagination and skill sets work towards invention of a self-replicating domain for future environments. “Robotic” devices can be the products of any combination of construction materials (real or imagined), hardware, software, biochemical elements, and/or electronics. Future environments can be another planet, a state of mind, or any place on earth where habitation is deemed impossible. Student innovations are not confined to currently existing technologies; students are equally encouraged to design things that require technologies imagined in the future taking into account what would be required for the development of the “parent” device, the robotic habitat that will spawn all the others. Student collaborative projects are developed to a prototype, model or visualization stage.
Students are initially introduced to a variety of particular examples of pre-existing robotic and artificial intelligence research and developments in the fields of art, architecture and engineering. Students conduct their research, create proposals, keep journals, and design appropriate “experiments” to work out their ideas. The end product can be in the form of drawings, models, video, and/or any form of digital visualization
Day and Time: WEDNESDAYS 6-9 PM
Calendar
Class 1, January 17 Class 2, January 24 Class 3, January 31 Class 4, February 7 Class 5, February 14 Class 6, February 21 Class 7, February 28 Class 8, March 7 SPRING BREAK – no class March 14 Class 9, March 21 Class 10, March 28 Class 11, April 4 Class 12, April 11 Class 13, April 18 Class 14, April 25 Class 15, May 2