Class
Construction Creatures is a creative-coding seminar that investigates emerging and behavioral systems as a design strategy in architecture. The seminar seeks to establish an interactive link in the thick of virtual code and its physical environment, enabling a symbiotic design approach between software and human through physical computing.
At the core of the seminar, students will be introduced to the open-source integrated development environment (IDE) Processing and Arduino and learn how to use programming and algorithmic procedures as a design tool. Attendees will master the basic concepts of programming like variables, conditional statements, loops, and arrays; moving forward to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming, particle systems, and flocking behaviours.
A key component of the seminar is to programme virtual creatures which create visual and physical artifacts like drawings and material objects. Hand in hand with transforming code into form comes the question of authorship and meaning, context and place.
Software:
Processing, Arduino, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper & Illustrator
For students with no prior Rhino/Grasshopper experience, it is recommended to participate in the dMA Rhino/Grasshopper skill drills 27.-30.09.2021.
The seminar will be held in English
Info
Modules:
- MSc. Architektur und Städtebau:
Physical Computing - BSc. Architektur:
Datenräume
Lecturer:
- Prof. Mirco Becker
Schedule:
- First Class: Friday 29.10.2021
14:00 - 15:00 seminar room KuG (B049)
- Midterm: 17.12.2021 14:00 -17:00 small foyer
- Final Presentation: 12.02.2022 12:00 -15:00 small foyer
Prerequisites:
- Rhino/Grasshopper Skill Drills
Further info on stud.ip
