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VISUAL DESIGN PROJECT: vvvv 360° Projection – HfG + Cocoon

vvvv development and 360° VJ performance with and for Cocoon Club Frankfurt, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd -Interaction Design, Summer 2011.

Project guidance: Sabrina Hauser & Andreas Brendle | Project partner: Ivo Schüssler, Eno Henze, Ömer Erol

Students: Roman Grasy, Markus Lorenz Schilling, Jan Barth, Armin Kröner, Patric Sterrantino, Sofia Hnatiuk, Marcel Müller, Antonio Krämer Fernandez, David Abele, Phillipp Hogg, Adrian Abele.

 

(Music in the video: Tree Elves – Fortitude – Original Mix)

I initiated and guided this project of developing new visuals for the 360° projection wall system of the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The clubs unique realtime-system is build on a network-setup with 21 projectors and 22 computers running an early version of the VJ System IRIS which is based on vvvv, a graphical programming environment.

During a three-month time period, the project team created 20 different patches (vvvv-applications) in several workshops and implemented them into the clubs system. Each patch has different parameters which can be controlled in realtime using IRIS.

Finally, the group performed on a friday night event as VJs at the Cocoon Club showing their results.

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BA COURSE: Project Management for Designers, taught at HfG

In Spring 2011 I taught the course “Project Management for Designers” to Bachelor of Arts students of the Interaction Design and Communication Design program at the HfG Schwaebisch Gmuend. All together I taught this course three times.

In this course I gave lectures on:
1. Self-management. Being organized on an everyday basis as a designer; tipps and tricks.
2. Project Management. Theoretical background, methods, skills, and tools.
3. Project Management in Design Practice. Design process, work and self-organisation in design practice, applying project management methods in design practice.
4. Project planning applied with an example.
5. Collaborative work with the support of tools.

Students received practical assignments throughout the course, which were all put together in a documentation and submitted at the end. Assignments were on:
1. Self-management
2. Time-management
3. Work environment organization
4. Importance of project management for design.
5. Creating a project milestones plan and a project structure plans
6. Try using a project management software like GanttProject
7. Filing structures for design projects
8. Plan a project with the tools learnt (they got to pick an everyday event for this.)

The goal was to get design students (early in their careers) thinking about their work organization, observe and analyze themselves, and develop an understanding of how to be organized and efficient as a designer. Moreover, an aim was to have students students know about project management skills and tools and learn how they can be useful in design practice. See two examples of a student’s documentation with all assignments HERE and HERE.

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MSc COURSE: Corporate Communication, taught at h_da

In fall 2010 I taught the course “Corporate Communications – a Part of Corporate Identities” to Master of Science students of the Information Science and Engineering program at the Hochschule Darmstadt.

In this course I taught about communication, perception, seeing companies as personalities/identities/corporate identities, and strategic communication.

See our Syllabus, a draft of my lecture planning, my slides (1), (2), (3), (4), practical task briefs (1), (2), (3). Unfortunately, this is all in German.

Besides attending my lectures, the students had to pick a company they would target a communication strategy at. First they had to do an analysis and create fact sheets and creative briefings about their chosen companies. Second they had to create  creative briefings for strategic communication work. Third they had to pick a part of a stretegic develop a changed strategic communications plan. Everything was presented in a final pechakucha event.

See a full documentation of one student HERE.

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BA STUDIO COURSE: Interactive Inform. systems, mentor at HfG

When I was working at the HfG, I also got be involved in mentoring students. Daniel Utz taught the course “Interactive Communication Systems” to 2nd year Interaction Design Students and I helped him mentor the project teams (7 teams of 3-4 students) as a teaching assistance.

This dates back quite a bit and the project wiki from this course has been updated. But HERE are similar projects from the same course, from when it was taught more recently; and THIS PROJECT is a good example with an english video. Students can chose to do either a more physical/hardware design project or a software application project. The aim is to communicate information through a designed interactive system. Such systems can often be found in museums. In the beginning workload has to go into an information analysis before design phases start.

[Featured Image of this post taken from Flickr.]