Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design

Course planning inside MyWdKA

Pages from Design & Technique during Quarter 1 2015

Students' work - Quarter1

Quarter 2 2015

Your city in the browser

In the second quarter of Design & Technique will be focus on presenting the behind the scenes of your intervention and research on a square from the city of Rotterdam, through the web, to the the world. In other words, you will record fragments of your intervention – the images, sounds, history, reactions, thoughts and dreams about this square – and explore ways to present them online, so that the user gains a sense of the place and of your intervention.

Building on the knowledge and experience acquired in quarter one, you will be encourage to create interactive works. Outcomes can take any form, from animated drawings, interactive maps, generative image, audio-visual works, or data visualizations.

Classes

• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/01
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/02 - JS
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/03 - jQuery
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/04 - exploring the city - choose your own adventure game
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/05 - review game; tutorials
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/06 - audio and video
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/07 - (D3 visualizations)
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/08

• Squares and groups

Examples

• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/Example/Business-card - constantly change image
• Courses/Design_&_Technique-Essential_Web_Design/Q2/Example/Form - user text input

Web-based works that explore city spaces

• Exhausting a Crowd by Ky McDonald
• Urban Echo by LUSTlab
• Radio Aporee
• Collective Waiting Portrait
• Janet Cardiff

{{#widget:Youtube|id=Tgef5gel4sk}} Ghost Machine

{{#widget:Youtube|id=sOkQE7m31Pw}} Alter Bahnhof Video Walk

Subjects

Subjects explored include:

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – for the creation of interactive and animated vector images in the browser, also in conjunction with vector drawing software, such as Illustrator and Inkscape.
• JavaScript and jQuery - to provide the interactive and dynamic elements to web pages to pages
• Snap.svg Javascript libraries - for SVG manipulation.
• D3 Javascript library - for the creation of visualizations
• HTML audio-video and canvas

Work load

The work load for the quarter will be divided into:

• weekly classes,
• simple weekly deliverables – small exercises that consolidate the techniques and concepts approached in classes, as well as allow you to find expressive and personal ways of employing them.
• one main deliverable project - that will congregate the knowledge acquired from classes and deliverables onto a project where you create the behind the scenes of your intervention.