===== Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas =====

Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

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=== Welcome ===

  - Introduction Felix (old projects, courses, research, open calendar, //OpenOffice//, //OpenStudio//)
  - Engineering Design Studio (Esteban, Matt, policies, machines, materials, kitchen, events, training (hand tools, laser cutter, CNC))
  - About you –> Why are you taking this course? ⇒ Attendance list

=== Prelude – Introduction to the Course ===

  - Syllabus
      - Structure: Project Colloquium (2:40hr session) + Seminar (1x 1:15hr session), discussion topics)
      - Learning Outcomes, textbooks, films (movie theatre), rubric, assessment
  - NYU classes: 1x essay , 2x case study, 5x project reports)
  - Examples for Bricolage audio objects 2016/2017:
      - Prototypes from Design Fundamentals course
      - [[http://www.felix-beck.de/?/object/soundbombs/|My Little Soundbombs]] (2006), Eyelight, F Light…
      - [[http://jenswunderling.com/works/Soundmachines/|Soundmachines]] (2011)
      - Why shifting from Audio object to furniture?
      - Furniture examples: Bauhaus Light, [[http://www.loehr.co/index_en.html|LOEHR]], [[http://atelierhaussmann.de/en/psa-scherer/|PSA Scherer]], [[http://maxfrey.net/index.php/rotor-d200-2006.html|Rotor]], …
  - Course trips (Louvre Abu Dhabi, Warehouse 421, Sharjah/Dubai)
  - VR/AR workshop in April
  - Exhibition at the end of Spring-Semester
  - Questions?

=== Overture – Lecture on Time Planning and Project Management ===

  - Project Management Tools (example: Gantt)
  - Agile Project Management using Kanban/Scrum

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=== Homework ===

  - Reading: Research Methods for Product Design (chapter 1 (p. 9–19), p. 176–177),
  - Develop a [[http://www.ganttproject.biz|Gantt-Chart]] that reflects the [[:project_phases|design stages of your project]] for this semester.
  - Find at least five companies that are located in the UAE, that produce or use material which you could use for building your furniture prototype. This could be for example //wood from a carpentry shop in Mussafah//, or a //camel leather factory//  in Al Ain. We will collect all those [[:uvf_material_ressource_list|here]].