As you all know by now, attendance for the class is important and required. If you need to miss a class for any reason, please contact me at klambert@cca.edu or at 415-336-9054. You are allowed one excused and one unexcused absence before your grade starts to fall because of missing class. When you e-mail me the day of class to let me know that you won’t be there, it is an unexcused absence. Having me approve an absence several days, if not weeks in advance, is an excused absence. If you are ill and you have a doctors note, it will count as an excused absence. I hope this helps for those of you who need my contact information.
The Thoreau Center for Systainability in the Presidio of San Francisco will host an exhibition of our work from this studio after the end of the semester! The show will be from January 11th, 2007 – January 30th, 2007. We will have an opening for the show on January 11th from 6:00-8:00pm at the Thoreau Center. http://www.thoreau.org, is the link so that you can check out what the organization is all about.
In the meantime, please save the dates in your calendars……we can begin installing the show on January 9, 2006. If you have any questions please contact me, Katherine Lambert at klambert@cca.edu
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Here is our home movie from the dump.
It is steaming video so give it a sec. to load.
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Great job last night! You all came a long way. We left inspired. We hope you are all inspired as well.
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The Interactive Institute designs projects around energy consumption for example: Energy Curtain is a window shade that collects sunlight during the day to power a glowing pattern on the inside of the shade during the night. Appearing Wallpaper is a wallpaper that changes its pattern over time as sunlight exposes textures printed with UV-sensitive ink. Disappearing-Pattern Tiles are bathroom tiles decorated with patterns in a thermochromic ink that reacts to heat, fading away to reflect splashes & intensities of hot-water use. Erratic Appliances is a radio that “untunes” when many objects in the room are consuming energy, visualizing the consumption by its unexpected response.
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As we discussed in class, you each need to complete a team and self evaluation for Monday, October 9. Please email your completed evaluations to:
cscheffy@ideo.com
Please answer each of the questions below once for yourself, and once for each of your teammates. Spend no more than an hour doing this entire exercise.
1) Your name
2) Your team name and product
3) Your teammates’ names
4) Please comment on your/team member’s contribution to the project. What are your/team member’s strengths? What are your/team member’s weaknesses? (Are they organized? On time to meetings? Follow through on what they say they are going to do? Contribution to the overall body of work?)
5) Please comment on your/team member’s grasp of the concepts and process presented in class. (Does everyone “get it” or are certain parts still very confusing or unclear to some people?)
6) Please feel free to include any other comments you want us to read: particular things you contributed, interpersonal dynamics (good or bad), group dynamics (good or bad), and if you have overcome any issues successfully in your group or areas where your team really needs help.
Lifecycle - Empathy and design for complex processes. 