Courses/Design & Technique/Interactive Web Design

Quarter 2

Design & Technique

Your city in the browser.

In the second quarter of Design & Technique will focus on documenting online of the intervention on the city square.

Building on the knowledge, technique and experience acquired in quarter one, students will be encourage to develop an interactive browser-based work that presents the behind the scenes of the intervention on the city on the browser. Outcomes can take the form of animated vector drawing, and interactive map, a generative image sequences, textual and audio-visual dialogues, or data visualizations.

Technical subjects will include:

• Interactive and animated vector images in the browser with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) also in interaction with vector drawing software and text-based version of text.
• JavaScript and jQuery to provide the interactive and dynamic languages to pages
• Raphael/Paperjs Javascript libraries for SVG manipulation.
• D3 Javascript libraries for the creation of visualizations (in SVG format)
• HTML audio-video and canvas

The work load for the trimester will be divided into:

• weekly classes,
• simple weekly deliverables - functioning as prototypes that consolidate the techniques and concepts approached in classes, as well as allow students to find expressive and personal ways of employing them to explore what their city is and how it is portrayed to world.
• one main deliverable project, that will congregate the knowledge acquired from classes and deliverables onto a project where the student presents one or multiple personal and subjective views over the city he or she inhabits.