WHAT WE ARE DOING

WHY WE ARE DOING IT

This activity involves designing a unique object that represents you while practicing prototyping skills with lo-fi materials.

It fosters creative exploration of social dynamics, encourages hands-on learning in prototyping, and cultivates empathy-driven design thinking, and relationship building.

Final Project Expectations

Table-top size scale-model. Restricted timeline for prototype development (~90 min)

The prototype should represent you in someway and will be a talking piece for you to get to know others and share with others something about yourself. This prototype is tool for relationship building.

Materials: Limited to using cardboard, paper, tape, and other low-fidelity materials specified in the studio prompt.

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Design a unique object using the materials provided. Use this object to share with others something unique about yourself. Get to know others based on the objects they have created. Build relationships with those around you! Lay the foundation for future collaboration!

THE CHALLENGE

ACTIVITY MATERIALS

There are many materials and tools to make prototypes with to represent our ideas!

Tools and Materials

Individually:

Have a look at the resource table and list as many items as you can in three minutes.

3 mins

5 mins

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As a group:

Share your findings with the group. What materials or tools do you notice and how you might use them to make an object? Each student share.

1 - ENCOURAGE WILD IDEAS

2 - SUSPEND JUDGMENT

4 - BUILD ON IDEAS

5 - BE VISUAL

3 - GO FOR QUANTITY

Wild ideas can often give rise to creative leaps.

Don’t shoot down someone else’s idea.

Aim for as many ideas as possible.

Build and expand on the ideas of others.

Sketch your ideas.

Individually:

On the back of your paper create a list of 5 - 10 different characteristics that represent you. Aim for 5 as a minimum. Tips: Write down things you are interested in: hobbies, activitites, specific games, shows, movies. Are you funny or serious? Do you enjoy reading or playing basketball.

In small groups:

Share with each other what you wrote. Ask your partner follow-up questions about what they shared with you. Take turns sharing with each other. Repeat with 2 other people, 3 total. Put a circle or square around characteristics you have in COMMON!

Brainstorming + Share Out!

2.

10 mins

5 mins

5 mins

SKETCH MODELS

ITERATIVE PROTOTYPING

FULL-SCALE PROTOTYPING

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STAGES OF PROTOTYPING

Quick Sketch + Prototype

3.

15 mins

Now it's time to start prototyping small scaled versions ONE of your three sketches. These will not look finalized and are supposed to be sketchy!

This prototype can be very rough and does not need to include detail. Use materials such as paper, tape, and cardboard.



After completing your prototype, share with a classmate team and give each other feedback.



Individually:

Select three of the unique characteristics you wrote down. Quickly, create a concept sketch for each of them.

Final Prototype (Iteration 02)

4.

30 mins

Individually:

After receiving feedback on your first small-scale prototype create a second iteration incorporating the feedback you received and a bit more detail.

This final prototype should include more detail and communicate your idea. We will use this as a tool for communication.

Share Out!

4.

10 mins

In Groups:

Partner with someone who you have not yet interacted with. Take turns sharing your creation with each other! Ask each other questions about your prototypes.

What do you enjoy about your partner's prototype?

What could they do to improve it, if they had more time?

Why did they choose this idea/object?

Pick a new partner and repeat!

Reflections

End of Challenge!