LCC 6318 / 4730: Experimental Media & Digital Art
ID 6201: Graduate Studio in Industrial Design

Interactive Play Spaces

In this project-based course, students develop the conceptual, aesthetic and technical basics of physical/digital co-design in the creation of interactive playful experiences for a multi-generational audience. With the technological advances of the past decade, computing has progressively moved beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. There is a great deal of potential to create hybrid physical/digital spaces for media arts and shared play. This multi-disciplinary course will engage students from the computational and digital media, industrial design, and human-computer interaction programs. The course will provide an informal, hands-on and team-based learning environment, in which students will work across disciplines to develop an outdoor interactive environment that functions simultaneously as a hybrid play space and art installation. The play space will be installed and exhibited in an outdoor space by the end of the semester.

Logistics

	[ LCC 6318 / 4730 & ID 6201 ]	Wednesday	12:00pm-1:00pm	Mason 312 (*)
	[ LCC 6318 / 4730 ]	Wednesday	1:00pm-3:00pm	Mason 312 (*)
	(*) Unless otherwise specified - check the schedule for updates

Expectations

	[ Tutorials, exercises, class participation ]			20%
	[ Team project work, presentations, and deliverables ]			80%
		[ Phase 1: conceptual design ]		20%
		[ Phase 2: modular construction ]		20%
		[ Phase 3: installation & documentation ]		40%

Materials

	[ Texts ]	Readings and resources will be linked from the class webpage or posted to t-square
	[ Webpage ]	http://dm.gatech.edu/~mazalek/courses/spring10/xmedia/
	[ Class List ]	xmedia-class@t-square.gatech.edu

Policies

[ Incompletes ]

No incomplete grades will be permitted, except in the case of illness excused by a doctor or other serious nonacademic reasons beyond the control of the student.