Michael Fox Workshop '08

Michael Fox

Prof. Michael Fox is the founder and principal of Fox Lin Inc. and he founded the Kinetic Design Group at MIT. He is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.

Schedule

Saturday, March 15

Readings: Fox, Zuk
  • 01:00-03:00PM, Crash Course on Electronics & Sensors (by TA)
  • 05:00-07:00PM, Open Lecture, FoxLin: "Experimenting with Experience" (announcement)
    Note: This lecture is OPEN to the public.

Sunday, March 16

Readings: Davidson
  • 10:00-12:00AM, Lecture on 2 topics:
    • Theory and Nature of Interactive Architecture, and
    • Mechanical Motions / Kinetic Typologies (Slides PDF available in Downloads page)
  • 12:00-01:00PM, Lunch break
  • 01:00-04:00PM, Work Session: Physical Modeling of Mechanical Motions
  • 04:00-04:30PM, Break
  • 04:30-06:00PM, Lecture: Applications of Embedded Computation in Architecture
  • 06:00-07:00PM, Dinner
  • 07:00-09:00PM, Robotics Lab: Electronics Basics & BS Programming

Monday, March 17

Readings: Kronenburg / Robin
  • 10:00-12:00AM, Work Session: Interactive Systems
  • 12:00-01:00PM, Lunch break
  • 01:00-05:00PM, Work Session: Interactive Systems
  • 05:00-06:00PM, Final Presentation, Review of Exercise