Courses/Design & Technique/Interactive Web Design

Quarter 2

Your city in the browser

In the second quarter of Design & Technique will focus on (p)representing a city through the medium of the Web, to the the world. Building on the knowledge, technique and experience acquired in quarter one, students will be encourage to develop interactive browser-based works that present a personal, subjective and playful view over the city he or she inhabits. Outcomes can take any form, from animated vector drawings, interactive maps, 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 such as Illustrator and Inkscape.
• 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.