Feb 3 — Mar 10 (6 Weeks) Brief: Design a way for non-human creatures to get around the city Group Members: Ella, Ranga (me), Shuzhe (Amber) and Zhihan This unit involved working with an external collaborator in Takram, an innovation design studio. …

Group:Boxun, Yixi, Jacob, and Ranga (me) 24th January — 28th January Brief: Design a way for people to embody and enact the outer appearance of a digital avatar. Our group started off being confused about what a digital avatar was — and how to manifest the physical and digital in…

Group: Fangxue, Vicki, May, and Ranga (me) 17th January — 21st January Brief: Design and make a bio-material instrument and play it together. For this brief, we specifically chose to experiment with materials that are often considered waste. We did experiment with living bacteria as well, though. …

Dec 02, ’21 — Dec 09, ‘21 Task: Design an experience of paper that explores its material, cultural and emotional qualities Group: Sofia Alexiou, Anya Li, Jinqi Han, Zhihan Xu, Malavika Mahajan and me (Ranga) After capturing the essence of our idea in the previous week, we had to decide…

Nov 25, ’21 — Dec 02, ‘21 Task: Design an experience of paper that explores its material, cultural and emotional qualities Group: Sofia Alexiou, Anya Li, Jinqi Han, Zhihan Xu, Malavika Mahajan and me (Ranga) Research methods: Literature Review and Bodystorming For this project we were asked to focus on…

Nov 18, ’21 — Nov 25, ‘21 Task: Design a way to express the skin/world interface. Group: Prashanthi Balachander, Dora Alvarez, Anya Li, Jacob Tomes and me (Ranga) For our second week we tried to build upon our ideas that we had presented during the interim presentation. The issue was…

Nov 12, ’21 — Nov 18, ‘21 Task: Design a way to express the skin/world interface. Group: Prashanthi Balachander, Dora Alvarez, Anya Li, Jacob Tomes and me (Ranga) Research methods: AEIOU Framework and Speed Dating First thing, everyone wanted to do a brainstorming session to discuss the properties and characteristics…

Nov 05 ’21 — Nov 11 ‘21 Task: Design an experience based on the characteristics of the colour yellow. Group: Dany Garcia Solano, Zhe Lou, Siyuan Li, Malavika Mahajan and me (Ranga) Our feedback during the interim presentation was basically that we over-complicated the entire toolkit. We were advised to…

Oct 28 ‘21— Nov 04 ‘21 Task: Design an experience based on the characteristics of the colour yellow. Group: Dany Garcia Solano, Zhe Lou, Siyuan Li, Malavika Mahajan and me (Ranga) Research methods: Artefact analysis, creative toolkit.