Devices for Activism + (BGHS - Shawn Sample 01 )

NuVu Platform: Logging In

James Addison

If you have used the NuVu Platform before AND you remember your password, then skip to STEP 4 and 5. 

If this is your first time using the NuVu Platform or if you have forgotten your password, then follow all of the steps below.

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STEP 1: In the top-right corner, click the word "login." 

STEP 2: When the black menu appears, click "reset password," and enter your school email address, and then click "Send Password Reset Link."


STEP 3: Check your school email account for an email from NuVu. Be sure to check your junk email folder as well if you don't see the email in your inbox. Follow the instructions in the email to reset your password.

STEP 4: You should now see your name in the top right corner. Success! (your screen will look slightly different than mine). 

If you click your school's name on the upper left side, you'll see your school's studios. Click on our current studio. You can also find this studio by clicking on your name in the top right corner.

STEP 5: You are now on the landing page for our studio for the rest of the term! To let your teacher know that you have succeeded in making it this far, make a celebratory comment under the post "comment here!" This post will only appear if you have logged in successfully. 

Comment Here!

Chris Perry

If you are seeing this post, you have successfully logged in. Comment below this post to let us know you made it!

 Studio Outline

Design Process

Activities

 Learning Objectives

Studio Intro

  • Team & Coach Introduction 

  • Studio Overview 

  • Develop a design vocabulary

  • Understand design concepts introduced in the Studio

Intro Activities

  • Compositions & movement

  • Graffiti Alley Stencils

  • Abstraction

  • Creative Perspective: develop new modes of thought 

  • Rapid Prototyping

  • Collaboration

Research & Contextualize

  • Precedent Analysis

  • Current Landscapes

  • Conceptual Framing

  • Sites for Intervention

  • Analyzing information through form

  • Making accurate inferences of unstated values and beliefs

  • Connecting current events to artistic opportunities

Brainstorming

  • Independent/Collective Brainstorming

  • Communicate ideas effectively through application of concepts 

  • Collaboration and Teamwork: Active listening, deliberation, negotiation, consensus building, and productive use of conflict

Project Proposal

  • Collecting references & sources

  • Sketches/Collages/Renders

  • Intention statement, precedents, and relevant quotations

  • Develop a discernment for conceptual v. technical goals of the project

  • Connect research in topic to research in form

Midpoint Presentations

  • Presentation Prep

  • Critique and Feedback

  • Develop a rigorous and consistent documentation of work to increase self-awareness regarding design process

  • Effectively communicate process and products to collaborators, coaches and public viewers

Iterative Design

  • Incorporating feedback to your design

  • Storyboarding

  • Scales of Impact

  • Desk Critiques

  • Synthesize feedback

  • Keep an open mind, be receptive to peer feedback and constructive critique

  • Ability to reassess conceptual intention based on evidence uncovered in the iterative process.

  • Continue to refine ideas generated earlier by understanding user, context, and scale

Advanced Prototyping

  • Digital Fabrication Techniques

  • Applying concepts & demonstrating acquired skills, with emphasis on tools and methodology

Diagramming

  • Technical Rendering

  • Software (Rhino/Illustrator) 

  • Practice technical literacy, establish comfort with using new tools and technology 

Final Presentation

  • Final Documentation

  • Presentation Prep

  • Reflection and communication

  • Effective communication of ideas and designs through oration, diagramming, and organizational presentation

Graphic Design

Andrew Todd Marcus

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements

Chris Perry

Website: http://507movements.com/toc.html

PDF: http://www.koorneef.net/files/Five%20Hundred%20and%20Seven%20Mechanical%20Movements%20-%20H.%20Brown%20%281871%29%20WW.pdf

Rob Ives' Essential Mechanisms

Chris Perry

https://www.robives.com/essentialmech/

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The Physical Toolbox is a learning resource that is tactile, interactive, and collectable. Within the parameters of a 90mm x 52mm casing, a limitless world of methodology unfolds. The collection highlights various techniques and best practices in hand modeling, digital fabrication, mechanisms, and electronics- intended to serve as learning resources for makers of all age groups. 

https://toolbox.nuvustudio.com/studios/2812-physical-toolbox/tabs/20867-boxes

Spinning Levers - How A Transmission Works (1936)

Chris Perry