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

C2-W006\\
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 9:00am – 11:30am

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=== Welcome ===

  - Introduction Felix
      - Open calendar, //OpenOffice//, //OpenStudio//,
      - Courses
      - Other activities: Buddy Bear, FILE,
      - Old projects,
      - Research (NTSI Lab, Plastic Recycling Lab)
  - Additional Resources:
      - Advanced Manufacturing Workshop (Esteban, policies, machines, materials, training (hand tools, laser cutter, CNC (carvey),…)
      - Engineering Design Studio (Matt, policies, machines, materials, kitchen)
  - 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
      - Homework
  - NYU classes: 1x essay , 2x case study (presentation template), 5x project reports(template))
  - Examples for Bricolage furniture projects ([[http://www.hardmood.info/doku.php?id=utilitas_venustas_firmitas_spring2018#pictures_from_spring_semester_2018|2018]]) and audio objects ([[http://www.hardmood.info/doku.php?id=utilitas_venustas_firmitas#pictures|2017]]):
      - Prototypes from Design Fundamentals course [[http://www.hardmood.info/doku.php?id=design_fundamentals#pictures|2016]]
      - [[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 to chairs?
      - Furniture examples: Bauhaus Light, [[http://www.loehr.co/index_en.html|LOEHR]], [[http://en.neocraft.com|Sebastian Scherer]], [[http://maxfrey.net/index.php/rotor-d200-2006.html|Rotor]], …
  - Guest talks and course trips (Qasr Al Hosn, overnight field trip, …)
  - Exhibition at the end of Spring-Semester
  - Questions?

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

  - Project Management Tools (example: Gantt, [[https://realtimeboard.com/app/dashboard/RealTimeBoard|https://realtimeboard.com/app/dashboard/RealTimeBoard]]…)
  - 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.
  - Write your friends or family at home and ask them to send you a picture of the chairs in their house. Bring the pictures to next class.