Material Led Feedback System

Project Lead: Marion Lean

Number of participants:  20

Duration: 5 days

Project Outline:

The premise of the workshop is to test a platform, which proposes use of the communicative potential of materials (both traditional and new) to convey and interpret meaning within the context of health and wellbeing. Concerned with our relationship with materials, touch and physicality in a digital age this workshop is part of a PhD Design Research project which uses materials to explore the experience of systems & technologies designed to aid behaviour change.

Timetable:

Day 1
AM: Introduction to concept ‘Material led feedback system’ ; RCA and industry partner speaker presentations
PM: Generative design research methods-
a) Design critique  ‘defamiliarisation’
b) Unpicking the stitches; materials as experience

Day 2
AM: Participants to form groups of 3-4.
Groups can choose to record data to be represented through material experience, or explore the Meaning-Making material palette
PM: PM: Data collection &/ picking material(s) to work with for the project

Day 3
AM: Matching Material qualities to data communication areas, explore existing feedback /communication systems
PM: Prototyping (Material Data experience or Meaning-Making Material Palette)

Day 4
AM: Group Projects, prototypes and speculative outcomes and applications
PM: Share prototypes and proposals with Peer groups

Day 5
AM: Presentation feedback, prototypes, prepare for the exhibition
PM: Feedback from Design and Health researchers, document projects, 3 minute presentations and exhibition