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Schedule / Emergent Syllabus: Wearables in the Wild

Days i and ii: Pre-workshops

First Day
  • Brainstorming wearable technology ideas
  • Building two select items
Second Day
  • Finishing wearable technologies for field use
  • Sorting gear
  • Sorting food
  • Packing
  • Prepping hack computer with drivers and libraries

Day 1: Hike In

Challenge
  • Find an interesting organism while we hiked
Activities
  • Hiking
  • Set up mini-camp
Reflection ·         Evening Journal Writing

Day 2: Hike In

Challenge
  • Find a biological structure that performs a function
  • Cybiotic Life drawing
    • Draw an animal, plant, fungus, and ecosystem
    • label senses and actions taking place in the drawings
Activities
  • Hiking
  • Designing a cell-phone game that could share the experience or mechanics of backpacking
  • Set up basecamp hacker tarps
  • Mountain lion game
Reflection
  • Performances based on creatures from life-drawing. Three teams were given three genres to push their creatures into: A fairy tale, A heist, and a horror film.

·         Evening Journal Writing


 

Day 3: Exploration Day

Challenge
  • Smell Adventure: Go out and collect interesting smells
Activities
  • Setup hacking stations
  • Testing Hydroelectricity
  • Setting up Bear Bag Elevator
Reflection ·         Evening Journal Writing

Day 4: Build Day

Challenge
  • Create a digital device to interact or explore our surroundings
Activities
  • Card Sort: Collecting ideas, arranging concepts, in a non-reductive process
  • Refining Hydroelectric turbines
  • Forest Speaker making
Reflection ·         Morning Journaling·         Evening Journal Writing

Day 5: Documentation Day

Challenge
  • Capture and explain device on video
    • Why you made it
    • What does it do
    • What are next steps / future improvements / things you learned
  • Create a Performance that involves or explains your device
Activities
  • Finish Hydroelectric Tests
  • Hugh and Paul Collect our Cars with Fishermen
Reflection ·         Morning Journaling·         Evening Journal Writing

·         Digital Daypack Design Jam

o    Teams create and present new physical concepts for

Day 6: Bonus Day!

Challenge
  • Finish the performances of the things you built
  • Document side projects
Activities
  • Lunchtime performances
  • Pack up digital gear
  • Pack up hacking tents
  • Contact: campfire game
Reflection ·         Morning Journaling 

Day 7: Hike Out

Challenge
  • Find delicious food back in the real world
  • Try to keep feet dry over stream crossings
Activities
  • Pack up rest of camp
  • Clean
  • Really really clean
Reflection ·         Morning Journaling·         Chat and hang out in van

 


 

Day iii: Documentation Workshop

Challenge
  • Document a digital device you created
    • In WordPress
    • In an Indesign layout
  • Document an experience in the field
    • In WordPress
    • In an Indesign layout
  • Document a bonus activity or thing you made
    • In WordPress
    • In an Indesign layout
Activities
  • Unsort gear
  • Get it back to andy’s place
Reflection
  • Arrange after party celebration