Summer Intensive
- About Summer Intensive in Interaction Design
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Interested in the fundamentals of interaction design? Want to delve into the intricacies of typography and grid standards? Curious about coding creatively and prototyping expressively? Craving to communicate quantitative information?
If you answered yes, then consider spending July in an intensive exploration of interaction design at the School of Visual Arts. In addition to evening courses, the summer program includes once-per-week daytime lectures and studio tours. Bringing together renowned designers and doers through studio-based work and lectures, the intensive allows flexibility for students to focus on one track or all four by unifying the program with a single theme.
Whether entering a graduate program or continuing as a professional, participants engaged in this not for credit program develop a deeper understanding of concepts and methods for designing interactions.
- Practice of Interaction Design
- Carla Diana
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Mondays, July 12-August 2 | 6:00-9:00PM
This course will explore the relationship among people, objects, and information through the field of interaction design. Beginning with an examination of case studies, students will gain a sense of the breadth of interaction design practice. In a series of hands-on, studio-based exercises, students will gain exposure to critical parts of the design process while learning specific methods for human-centered concept exploration and the development of product behaviors. The course will culminate in a final project that incorporates major principles of interaction design and fits within the context of a larger, track-independent theme.
- Elements of Communication Design
- Nicholas Felton
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Tuesdays, July 6-27 | 6:00-9:00PM
This course will introduce, over four weeks, many of the fundamental elements of clear communication design. It will begin with an overview of typographic standards and best practices, followed by an examination and application of grid systems. Week three will focus on information design and the tools for visually communicating data. Week four will integrate these fundamentals into a final class-based assignment that works with the larger theme for the program.
- Leaving the Screen: Introduction to Programming for Interactive/Reactive Systems
- Zachary Lieberman
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Wednesdays, July 7-28 | Time: 6:00-9:00PM
This course will be a gentle but thorough introduction to code, and how students can use computation to build new systems for interaction that move away from the screen and into physical space. It is taught using openFrameworks (openframeworks.cc), a cross-platform c++ library for creative coding, but also looks at other toolkits and frameworks that helps the creative process and how different systems are connected. We’ll cover the building blocks of code, computational logic, and object-orientated programming, then start putting those pieces to work with systems of computer vision, signal processing, and interfacing with physical devices. In the latter half of the course, participants work to code creative and expressive prototypes based on these approaches.
In addition to the technical side, students weave through examples of the aesthetic and practical applications of the medium, looking for sources of inspiration and challenging our notion of what is possible. Students are recommended to have some familiarity with code (i.e., know what a variable and a function is), but beginners, who are prepared to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, are totally welcome.
- Data Visualization
- Shawn Allen
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Thursdays, July 8-29 | 6:00-9:00PM
This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of data visualization, and provide a structured environment for experimentation with a variety of methods in both digital and physical media. Over the course of four weeks, students will study the iterative process of visualization design as a means to adaptively organize, understand, and communicate quantitative information. Students will explore practical applications for visualization in a variety of contexts, and the course will culminate in a presentation of visual artifacts based on a shared data set relevant to the summer program’s central theme.
