===== Manus Et Machina ===== Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\ Sunday, September 1, 2019, 9:00 am – 11:40 am ---- === Prelude === * Attendance list * Draw of [[:mm19_case-studies|case study topics]] ([[https://www.random.org/lists/|https://www.random.org/lists/]]) * Draw of order [[:mm19_essay1|for Essay presentation]] * //Engineering Design Studio// * NYUAD library informs that below items are now available on our course reserve. The loan period for these items is 5hours: - Death by design : the dirty secret of our digital addiction, Sue Williams, DVDAD 5927 - Metropolis, Fritz Lang, DVDAD 1355 - 1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization, Salim T. S. Al-Hassani, BP190.5.S3 A15 2012 - What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly, T14.5 .K45 2010 * Homework for today was the creation of a Ganttchart. One or two lucky students will be asked to presented their developed schedule to the class. === Overture: Theme of the Day => Drawing Workshop (Sketching, Scribbling, Rendering) === * One, two, three point perspective ([[https://www.facebook.com/BoredPandaArt/videos/567916093395520/?pnref=story|helpful link]]) * Technical drawings: * Isometric drawing: Note the 120° angles separating the x, y and z axes. * Axonometries with two same angles are called diametric * Axonometries with three different angles are called trimetric ---- === Homework === - Do not forget to write your Essay! (Deadline is coming Thursday) - Think about __three topics__ you are interested in. For each topic think about a //hand-tool// that is related to it. A few examples: * I am interested in photography –> I would like to build a tool that holds my camera and applauds every time I take a picture. * I work for an environmental NGO –> I would like to develop a fertilisation hand-tool that helps me and my team to work on the fields in the mountains of my home country. * I love art and I am fascinated by robots –> I would like to build a crazy tool for people to charge their phones by shaking it. - Create [[http://www.felix-beck.de/nyuad/teaching/doku.php?id=3_machine_ideas|a poster that visualises your three ideas]] - You will give a 5 minutes short overview about your ideas in class to receive everybodys feedback. One of those ideas will be realised in one or the other form by you over the coming semester.