1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

What are the emerging materialities in a Post-Industrial - post digital  world condition?  

The course wants to look at the current state of the material conditions (especially heterogeneous and homogeneous material conditions) and explore specificities by developing new techniques and approaches to investigate further into the above question.  

 2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This purpose of this course is to: (a) introduce you to materials and techniques in the current practices; (b) familiarize you to the methods of material based experimentation; and (c) help you develop your critical experimental methodology to be able to conduct an experiment based on specific outputs.  

3. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Within the above frame, at the end of this course, you will learn to: (a) develop an argumentation for a problem statement and frame a research question; (b) synthesize a review of relevant concepts and research in the field of materials and techniques; and, (c) develop a methodological approach to engage with your experiment and execute it. 

4. COURSE FORMAT

This is an experimentation based hands on driven studio. An approach to making-observation-specific readings and building on that in an progressive way is the studio format. Techniques and material techniques to be experimented based on their respective set objectives for the selected material. A minimum of 10 recorded experiments are to be conducted in the course of the module of 4 weeks. Discussions on research papers from across academia and material experiments will be conducted to orient and provide direction in the respective pursuits.