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Our 7/8 pinball elective examine pinball games with an eye towards both historical context and equity. Students will design a tabletop pinball machine that celebrates a traditional underrepresented individual, group, or theme and bring this machine to life with digital, mechanical, construction, and artistic elements.
Our class will follow a protocol used by designers everywhere. The specific language may change - some people call it design thinking, ohers call it engineering design - at Brandeis we call it Ethical Creativity.
Part 1 - Exploring with Awe and Wonder
In this part of the process we need to dive into all things pinball. The sounds, the designs, the history, the feel. We need to understand the enduring fascintion with these machines.
Now we want to take all that info we've gathered and ask questions to deepen our understanding.
Now that we have a gathered info and processed that info what is our specific challenge. What are we setting out to solve/make/do?
How might we we accomplish our task? We want lots of ideas!!!!
Try out your creation. Does it work like you want it too? Probably not? See if you can make it better. Keep making it better. Love it? Share it with others via demonstrations, video, writing, etc.
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