Felix's Documentation of Teaching at NYUAD

Location: A4-006
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, 11:50 – 13:05

1. Introduction Felix (courses, research, OpenCalendar, OpenOffice, OpenStudio)
2. About you –> Why are you taking this course?

1. Structure: Project Colloquium (2:40hr session) + Seminar (2x 1:15hr session), attendance (Felix table…))
2. Course schedule, case study presentations, essay presentations
3. Homework!
4. Syllabus (updated Syllabus, discussion topics, learning outcomes, textbooks, films, other resources, grading rubric)
5. Everchanging themes for the semester:
   • Students' projects from 2016 class
   • Students' projects from 2017 class
   • Body Extensions: Students' projects from 2018 class ⇒ 1,2, 3
6. Several machine types defined by last years course ⇒ what hand-tool types come to your mind?
7. About the handtools project – a few examples to get into the mood:
   • Neolithic, mesolithic and paleolithic tools
   • Tools for construction, electrical, gardening, workshop, kitchen, drawing…
   • Carpenter Tools (https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=carpenter%20tools)
   • The ABC of hand tools on (Disney, 1945) youtube
   • Chopsticks
   • Matches
   • C64 Joystick (on amazon)
   • Apple Pencil
   • Fidget Spinner
   • Using a paperclip to open handcuffs
8. Constraints for your hand tools (concept, material, size)
9. Worksites/Labs for prototyping:
   1. Plastic Lab
   2. Engineering Design Studio (Matt, policies, materials, kitchen, events)
   3. Advanced Manufacturing Workshop (Esteban, policies, machines, AMW cal ⇒ helping sessions always Sunday afternoon)
10. NYU classes (overview about assignments: essay, artistic statement, case study 1, case study 2, project report (showing draft report))
11. Course trip (Global Education)
12. Workshops and guest talks: Dov Ganchrow, Michael Schmitz and others.
13. Semester-end exhibition
14. Questions?

Poster from exhibition »The Robots – Man and Machine at the End of the 20th Century«, 1992