Day and Time: WEDNESDAYS 6-9 PM 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