Watch this page for all the information regarding the introductory hands-on workshops to explore and experiment digital tools and other practices for producing immersive experiences
Recommended for students to explore creative narratives, performative storytelling techniques and mind-mining experiences.
Skill-based technical workshops that requires pre-requisites of *basic understanding and skills.
It is highly recommended that there is a good mix and balance of students picking diverse routes within a project team, so to better equip the group with different skill sets needed to deliver the final result. *Curious participants with no prior experience can partake in the technical workshops but to be advised that you have to self-learn and get a head start with available online tutorials for each software / tools before hopping on the live workshops.
Monday, Oct 26th, 14:30-17:00 CET This workshop aims to analyze different notions of gender and sexuality through the art of drag. Particular emphasis will be placed on the aspect of drag make-up and the transformation from male to female. During this process, topics such as gender, sexuality, culture and ethnicity will be discussed while participants follow along and try to transform themselves and explore their own perceptions of gender as well as how this relates to identity and relationships of power connected to it.
#selfexploration #identity #genderbias #rupaul
Thursday, Oct 29th, 09:00 - 09:45 CET How much of your fear is only in your head? How many of your perceptions about yourself are mind made and has nothing to do with who you really are? This workshop will explore Predictive Processing, arguably known as one of the most basic functions of neural computations with prediction errors driving brain processes and behavior. We will go through a journey to observe, explore and optimize our self being, looking at personal development from a holistic and regenerative point of view
Workshop Keynote:
#speculativedesign #creativenarratives #timetravel #personaldevelopment #neurothinking
Part 1: Friday, Oct 30th, 15:00-18:00 CET How do we recognize true leadership in a world of pretend politics? Bounded by existing power structures and constantly flooded by a televised display of transactional arrogance, how do we avoid mistaking weakness for strength? Can leaders be openly vulnerable? Do they exercise their Power based on fear, or charm? How do we relate to people close to us, and what can we do to navigate the trappings of Relative Status? Can we use it for a Greater Good? In this performative workshop, we delve into notions related to Power and Strength. We will be looking at the effects of your attitude and behaviour, and the effects that it has on others and your relating to one another. The mentor, Andrew Hefler, is a brilliant beast with thirty years of experience as a theatre director, actor, performer, trainer, you name it. This will be useful to everyone eager to try improvisation and exploratory, performative tools.
Part 2: Monday 2nd November 09:00-12:00 PowerPlay with improvisational theatre, and means of translating PURPOSE into ACTION - useful in life ;) - as well as in projects involving podcasts, script writing, radio dramas, video performances, interviews, or live-streamed videos.
#improv #selfexpolration #breakingconceptions
Part 1: Monday, Nov 2nd, 13:00-14:15 CET
Part 2: Wednesday, Nov 4th, 13:00-14:15 CET
#inclusivedesign #racialbias #selfexploration
Monday, Nov 2nd, 14:30-17:30 CET Inclusive design seeks to involve underrepresented voices in the design process with the aim of designing better solutions for everyone. In this session, you’ll confront your own biases and experiment with some of our inclusive design tools to welcome more perspectives into your design process. You’ll go home with a new mindset about the value of designing inclusively, and some tools to embed inclusive design into your projects.
What will be covered: 1. A brief intro into inclusive design and why we think it’s important
2. Two interactive sessions using Idean’s Inclusive Design tools
Using Cards for Humanity to embed a more inclusive approach into your project work and strengthen your concepts
Using Universal Score to evaluate your emerging ideas and help you to level up how inclusive your concepts are.
3. Reflections and wrapping up
#DesignThinking #Strategy #UX #inclusiveDesign #CardsforHumanity
Tuesday, Nov 3rd, 09:00-12:00 CET & Wednesday, Nov 4th, 09:00-12:00 CET Deep dive into creating short form video content thru mixed-media synesthesia! Sharing industry insights in how to make "cool shit” for clients! And exploring a variety of animation/ footage treatment techniques using some of our analog & digital workflows!
Antoine Bertin & Cristina Tarquini // Soundscapes Workshop - Kikk Festival
Mikaela Steby Stenfalk // Collective Collection Marshmallow Laser Feast // Memex - Duologue Marshmallow Laser Feast // Chameleon Liam Young // Where the city can’t see
Part 1: Photogrammetry We will learn how to create 3D models of existing real objects we will find around us. By taking pictures of these objects with a phone and thanks to the software Agisoft, we will be able to teleport objects from the real world straight into the virtual one.
Part 2: Rapid Prototyping Rapid prototyping and iterative design is key to nail the message we’re trying to communicate. By quickly putting ideas out there we’ll be able to test and improve ideas/projects on the fly.
#3Dscanning #photogrammetry #virtualworldbuilding #prototyping
Tuesday, Nov 12th, 14:00-17:00 CET Deep dive into creating short form video content thru mixed-media synesthesia! Sharing industry insights in how to make "cool shit” for clients! And exploring a variety of animation/ footage treatment techniques using some of our analog & digital workflows!
The Workshop: We will take a piecemeal approach to visual activism! A movement begins with an individual walk and then a protest occurs when a group of people meet up and walk together!
With that in mind, each student will create and experiment with their own interpretation of a walk! Can be an animation of any style or any sort of filmed footage treatment! After everyone submits, we will then take all the individual walks and have them all come together as parts of a larger group movement video!
Software Used: Adobe AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Bonus Tools: Access to printer, scanner, paper & doodle instruments (i.e. markers, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paints, choose your own adventure)
#Animation #MovingImages #PlayfulActivism #FunExploration #DigitalProtest
Thursday, Nov 5th, 09:00-12:00 CET & Friday, Nov 6th, 09:00-12:00 CET We’ll dive into Mozilla Hubs, a platform that gives users the possibility to create and share three-dimensional participative virtual environments that can be visited and changed by anybody with a browser, an internet connection and a link to a space. We’ll specifically focus on experimenting with the creation of spaces to develop immersive narratives
*Software Used: Blender, Firefox *Please register on https://hubs.mozilla.com/spoke
References:
Lecture Notes:
#3Denvironment #immersivespace #virtualreality #ethicalnarratives
Thursday, Nov 5th, 14:30-17:30 CET & Wednesday, Nov 11th, 13:00-16:00 CET The workshop aims to guide through Augmented Reality realm showing augmented narratives and the potential held in this medium. The building of storytelling is going towards an evocative direction distancing from the classical plot-oriented narrative. The switch, from a timeline based content structure to real-time environments, require a deconstruction of our content tools (written information, image, sound etc.). Practical ways of application will be examined and discussed. The lecture is a theoretical part that encourages to think and /design AR narratives and experiences.
Softwares used: AFrame, Meshmixer / MeshLab, Cinema 4D & Photoshop
Part 1: Spark AR On Instagram Filters building. Focus on the key steps of the workflow Student Instructions. Learning Outcomes: The workshops aim to provide the basic methodology and the technical instruments needed for the creation and production of an Augmented experience.
Part 2: AFrame On AR web-based building framework. Focus on the key steps of the workflow ⁃ 3D preparation for AR ⁃ Basic animation ⁃ Web repositories ⁃ Coding structure Student Instructions.
Softwares used: Spark AR
#MixedReality #VR #AugmentedReality #DesignFiction, #InstaFaceFilter #ARNarratives
Monday, Nov 9th, 14:00-17:00 CET & Tuesday, Nov 10th, 14:00-17:00 CET How do we design the sound?
Analyzing and understanding the meaning of sounds through their nature. Removing meanings from sounds hiding their source. Giving sounds new meanings. Organizing them and understand how to express a narrative potential through a structure. Designing what we want the audience to hear. Catching sounds and digitally manipulate them in order to create what has been designed.
Starting from digital audio’s basics, a journey through recording and manipulation of sound using the computer.
Software used: Ableton Live 10
Hardware used: *Portable recorders equipped with microphone(s) (like the Zoom h2n), laptops, headphones (the better the quality, the better the result!)
*If a portable recorder is not available per each group of students, there will be no problem, we can record sounds with smartphones (for which some free apps - like Voice Record Pro - will be required)
#SoundDesign #SoundScaping #ASMR
Workshop Title
Date
Time (CET)
Who
Learning Outcome
Exploring Identity Through Drag
Mon 26.10
14:30 - 17:00
Ceviche de Chocho
Identity Exploration
Fear, Change & Predictive Processing
Thu 29.10
09:00 - 09:45
Shay Benish
Neuro-Thinking, Self Development & Holistic Design
Performative Workshop (Part 1): PowerPlay & The Status Game
Fri 30.10
15:00 - 18:00
Andrew Hefler & Casper Grey
Improv, Body as a Narrative Tool
Performative Workshop (Part 2): Devised Theatre
Mon 02.11
09:00 - 12:00
Andrew Hefler & Casper Grey
Performative Narrative, Art of Presentation
Power & Privilege (Part 1)
Mon 02.11
13:00 - 14:15
Semayat Oliveira, Charô Nunes & Sumbo Temo
Racial Bias & Anthropology
Inclusive Design by Idean UK
Mon 02.11
14:30 - 17:30
Charlotte Fereday & Charlie Wileman
Design Thinking & Strategy
Photogammetry Workshop
Tue 03.11
09:00 - 12:00
3D, Photogammetry
Visual Jamming, StoryShowing & Whimsical Activism (Part 1)
Tue 03.11
14:00 - 17:00
Raymo Ventura - Deuxwave Studio
Animation & Film, Adobe AfterEffects, Phone Camera
Rapid Prototyping Workshop
Wed 04.11
09:00-12:00
Prototyping
Power & Privilege (Part 2)
Wed 04.11
13:00 - 14:15
Semayat Oliveira & Charô Nunes
Racial Bias & Anthropology
Visual Jamming, StoryShowing & Whimsical Activism (Part 2)
Wed 04.11
14:30 - 17:30
Raymo Ventura - Deuxwave Studio
Animation & Film, Adobe AfterEffects, Phone Camera
Creating Participative Virtual Environments (Part 1)
Thu 05.11
09:00 - 12:00
Blender, HUBS
Mixed Reality: Tales, Territories and Strategies (Part 1)
Thu 05.11
14:30 - 17:30
Paulina Greta
SparkAR, Face filter
Creating Participative Virtual Environments (Part 2)
Fri 06.11
09:00 - 12:00
Blender, HUBS
Mixed Reality: Tales, Territories and Strategies (Part 2)
Fri 06.11
14:00 - 17:00
Paulina Greta
AFrame, 3D Virtual Space Design
Sound Design Workshop (Part 1)
Mon 09.11
14:00 - 17:00
Ableton Live 10 & portable recorders with microphone(s) like the Zoom h2n
Sound Design Workshop (Part 2)
Tue 10.11
14:00 - 17:00
Ableton Live 10 & portable recorders with microphone(s) like the Zoom h2n
Watch this page for all information regarding the open panel discussions
Tuesday, Oct 27th, 15:30 - 17:00 CET Systemic Change & Power Distribution - The discussion will explore the discourse of power structures across the world, and how thought-leaders build up systems that are resilient, promote diversity and foster the wellbeing of humanity. Also, how by rethinking our current structures, we are able to built up long term positive and sustainable change.
Thursday, Oct 29th, 10:30 - 12:00 CET How can fiction describe reality? Can we script the world we live in? How do we construct narratives that evoke emotional responses, rather than simply providing audiences with facts and information? Is there an indispensable component that allows us to engage the viewer?
In this Open Panel, we delve into how fictional storytelling / story showing can become an insightful reflection of reality, and how to use Visual, Experiential, Bodily, and Technological tools to produce transformative experiences.
Watch this page to keep track with all inspirational speakers
Monday, Oct 26th, 13:00 - 14:30 CET Here we look forward to connecting ideas of design, sustainability and identity through the timeline of my life. Born in a small town in the south of Brazil, I’ve come a long way finding my own voice. Fashion is a powerful tool and it incorporates more than just taste but can be used as a way of expression and exploration of the self. In order to recognise ourselves as plural individuals we have to tell our stories based on the complex combinations of our life experiences and abilities as you would by sewing meticulously cut pieces of fabric together. My most recent work with recruitment and community building has made me realize we should be more willing to adapt and re-signify than to ignore or even diminish someone’s personal trajectory.
#identity #sustainability #community #transgenderism
Tuesday, Oct 27th, 09:00 - 10:30 CET What do we talk about when we talk about power? What is power? How do we interpret it? How do we perceive it? Do we know if we talk about the same concept when we talk about power? Is power real or an illusion? Why are we attracted to/ by power? An explorative interactive talk to explore all our own understanding of “power” together.
#anthropology #collectivebias #perceptivemedia #humanitarianrights #historicalart
Tuesday, Oct 27th, 10:30 - 12:00 CET How is it that Uyghurs in camps aren’t massive news and haven’t been. How would society’s perspective be different if we would have photos of thousands of women and men being kept hostage, abused, and raped? Why don’t we see them? Bushfires in California and Australia. What happens when we are immunized to these recurring images? The content of our news cycle is reliant on the images made available to us. The way our world works often seems and feels obscure, complex, too hard to change. Too hard to fix. But although we can’t change the entire world at once -- all of us together as a civilisation, are without a doubt changing it. Every day, every year, every decade. Think about your parents, and your grandparents. Which freedoms do you have that they didn't? What opportunities? Which rights? Big corporations, industries, and politicians, can hire lobbyists and expensive business, marketing, and advertising firms to represent them and fight for their freedoms and rights.
Who fights for the freedoms and rights of normal people like you and me? Activists. Campaigners. Non-for-Profits. Foundations. Charities… There’s a whole spectrum of organisations and individuals out there that work tirelessly, day in day out, to make change in the world.
I want to open a conversation with you about activism, and how each single one of us has the power, the freedom, and the right -- to be an activist in their own way. You don’t need to work at an NGO like Greenpeace, or Doctors without Borders, or WWF to make change in the world. If every business, every advertisement agency, design studio, financial institution -- would have just one, single person working for them who dares to speak up bravely, and honestly. Just one person, who takes it upon them to go the extra mile and come up with new, alternative ideas to represent who we are -- who we can be. Who feels the urge to tell a different story -- we can change even more rapidly than we already are. A few things I’d love to talk about with you:
Activism 101 -- a quick download
Creating change from the inside out: employee rebellions
How media & news influences how we think -- and who we are (and become)
Photography, Video, Art, and Design -- to influence the news cycle.
Photography, Video, Art, and Design -- to create and sustain movements What do the images of the world say about us? How do YOU curate the right imagery for your story?
#humanrights #digitalcampaign #imagery&media #collectivebias
Tuesday, Oct 27th, 13:00 - 15:00 CET In this talk, we'll look at what immersive design and immersion mean, and how you can use embodied experiences to interrogate and co-design sociotechnical systems and processes. We'll do so from a whole-systems perspective, drawing on three threads — resilience engineering, speculative design, and the theories and praxis of the Nordic live-action role-playing community.
Lecture Keynote:
#systemdesign #bigdata #sociotechnical #processdesign #engineering #speculativedesign
Wednesday, Oct 28th, 09:00 - 10:30 CET In this talk Tomas will give a brief introduction to AI / machine learning. He will then discuss the socio-political impact of this technology as well as present some of his interactive artworks that incorporate machine learning.
#AI #Machinelearning #EthicalData #DataPolitics #InteractiveArts
Wednesday, Oct 28th, 10.30 - 12:00 CET We are all walking paradoxes, we are taught from an early age to fit in, to dress for success, but what happens when we own the paradox, the contradictions, the complexity that is the self?
Using the lived queer experience as our jumping off point we will explore the power of self reflection and self knowledge in a professional context.
#identity #queer #socialanthropology #genderequality
Wednesday, Oct 28th, 13.00 - 14:00 CET Springing from utopian ideologies, yet domestic in nature, eco-communities and shared living, in their myriad of forms, offer hopeful visions of the future which are not only physically different, but are underpinned by alternative value systems.
This talk will explore how power hierarchies are flattened within eco-communities and shared living, and how this enables a collective level of autonomy which would not be possible on an individual level. In this talk, Penny will first define eco-communities and shared living, touching upon some of her research. She will explore the egalitarian power structures employed by some of these communities, looking at the benefits and challenges of power distribution and communications techniques. She will then make the case that shared living engenders personal fulfilment and empowerment through ‘inner work’ and sense of place, whilst also encouraging ‘larger-than-self’ thinking. Finally, she will demonstrate how shared living can to some extent enable autonomy from our dominant economic systems.
Lecture Keynote:
#communitybuilding #strategicspatialdesign #socialanthropology #genderequality
Wednesday, Oct 28th, 14:00 - 15:00 CET What does a Cybersecurity mean? In her talk, Hila will cover her personal journey to becoming a leader in this space and some of the career decisions she took. Key item in her session will be the development of the Cyber Security industry originating in more traditional Physical Security operations moving to the cyber and technological space, thus removing boundaries that are linked to gender, physical appearance or disabilities. She will explain the shortage of skills in the Cyber employment market which as a driver for diversity and inclusion and will touch on the remaining gaps.
Lecture Keynote:
#humanetechnology #dataprivacy #socialinclusion
Wednesday, Oct 28th, 15:30 - 17:00 CET There’s a global movement of technologists, hackers, policy makers, activists and philanthropists fighting to keep the Internet free, open and accessible for everyone. The Internet Freedom community is one of the most interesting stories of multidisciplinary collaboration ever told – but nobody has ever told it… Yet. The internet isn’t Facebook, or Google – it isn’t search engines, or social media, either. The Internet is a shared global resource, and we need storytellers, creatives and dreamers to build powerful, hopeful visions for the future we want for the web.
I’d like to invite you to join me in a journey through uncharted narrative-building territory: Can positive, inspiring narratives be more impactful and engaging than catastrophism and dystopian techno-futurism? In the darkness, the faintest light source becomes a beacon.
Lecture Keynote:
#dataprivacy #humanetechnology #digitalrights #technofuturism
Thursday, Oct 29th, 09:45 - 10:30 CET The world is a story, and you are the stage. How do you design a narrative that is visual compelling and emotionally alluring? How do you grapple with the power of truth, and how can you direct that narrative as in a fictional world? What is the space between reality and fiction, where you invite your audience to exist?
#speculativedesign #creativenarratives #alternaterealitygaming #scriptwriting #neurothinking
Thursday, Oct 29th, 13:00 - 15:00 CET How identities get intertwined with each other forming not only specific nuances with the groups we are part of because of those identities but also how the create specifics realities.
#identity #personalnarrative #selfdiscovery
Thursday, Oct 29th, 15:30 - 17:00 CET Arguably we all live in our own individual fictional bubble - made real through our semi-joined fictional bubbles of friends, families and societies. You will likely have heard the term story-living. I first came across it at a lecture by the iMLxLAB of LucasArts - the company behind the Star Wars franchise, now owned by Disney and part of all that means. When we project the idea of story living further into human life and society by the tools of extended reality, what once was limited to the theme park is everywhere internet and cloud computing can reach - this already include, some jungles, Mount Everest as well as outer space. Story living is of course also tainted by the advertisement industry, that does all it can to pull us into their customized vocabularies making some use of story living too, fueled by algorithms feeding off our data, but what happens when instant customization of product reaches a level of sophistication that makes advertisement of standardized goods and services obsolete? The sole role of advertisement is to standardize you so that your mind aligns with standard product. Converging technologies point towards possibilities of inhabiting a semi-virtual world in a seamless fashion. Virtual goods is a rapidly growing market, and the way we can alter things in 3D software will increasingly be the way we can alter our own immediate experiences of reality. Everything harnessing our data is often pitched as dystopian, but there is also an immense potential therein as everything advanced in the digital realms depend on customization per individual, which in turn requires data. In order to design fiction we don’t want to leave - and to create services within this inhabitable fiction that generate real economy, gives rise to real jobs and evolves into a customizable reality on our own individual terms beyond most imaginations. Join for a mixed presentation and conversation on concepts focusing on extended reality and the possibilities thereof, growing on a scaffolding of data resulting in endless narratives.
Lecture Keynote:
#designfiction #narrativebuilding #futurism
Monday, Nov 9th, 10:00 - 12:00 CET The world of design was, like many other creative sectors, twisted by the pandemic both due to the cancellation of the main trade fairs, and due to a significant drop in sales in the first quarters of 2020. Young and independent studios have been overwhelmed by this situation. This is how Blank's idea was born to launch a digital platform of Isola Design District, a design event that was taking place exclusively during design weeks. The curated platform has a focus on innovation, sustainability and experimental materials and it was realized in very short time, where you can find a design community, magazine, events calendar and a digital design district with virtual exhibitions developed by involving over 300 designers , design studios, important international partners and contributors from all over the world. With two events already underway in 2020, the platform immediately had a great media success and aims to revolutionize and democratize the market. Elif will share her experience on how the world of design has changed, from physical to digital.
#phygitaldesign #immersiveenvirnoments #creativestrategy
Tuesday, Nov 10th, 16:00 - 17:30 CET Searching for the homeland of many has been a fundamental quest in science and culture, particularly because we all carry genetic echoes from our original fathers and mothers. Going back in time poring over fossils and peering at genetic ancestry and the intense signs say all modern humans roaming the Earth came from Africa. Africa is an enormous continent featuring an overwhelming scope of geographical and cultural diversity. Today, anywhere between 1,000 to 2,000 languages stretch from the Saharan desert across the mountain rainforests to the savannah grasslands. It is then noted the migration to other parts of the earth played a role in the change in the physical appearance to the ability to adjust to the new environment. The exploration of what lies beneath, where our differences lie, where our similarities collide in traditions, cultures and how we see ourselves in each other via the stories, concepts, fashion and more from a place of non-judgement, bore the idea of AfroStyle Magazine.
#identity #contentcreation #africanstyle
4 weeks (Oct 26th - Nov 20th) Online Learning Process
Get inspired and generate insights about immersive storytelling, and the meaning of “power” in the intersections between humanity, technology, sustainability and society
*TDS on Friday, Oct 30th, 10:00 - 15:00
Actively explore the possibilities of different technologies for designing immersive environments
Build up your concept, define the right technologies, and prototype ideas for delivering purpose-oriented narratives
*TDS on Friday, Oct 13th, 09:30 - 12:00
Package your concept and prepare it for final presentation in the opening ceremony of BETA HUMAN Museum & Archive
Topic of Discussion
Date
Time (CET)
Host
Panelists
Systemic Change & Power Distribution
27.10
15:30 - 17:00
Shay & Pebbles
Nadine Bruder, Mahan Charmshir, Shany Hadad & Yeliz Ueney & Basadi Dibeela
Scripting & Designing Fiction for our Reality
29.10
10:30 - 12.00
Casper Grey
Andrew Hefler, Marian Kaiser, Paulina Greta & Denisse Ariana Pérez
Lecture Title
Date
Time (CET)
Who
Theme
Design Possibilities, Recycle Experiences & Identify Opportunities
26.10
13:00 - 14.30
Paula Saul
Self & Identity
Power & Media: An examine into Historical Art & Modern Media
27.10
09:00 - 10.30
Mahan Charmshir
Social / Cultural Anthropology
Images for Change Making
27.10
10.30 - 12:00
Alice Nell
Social / Cultural Anthropology
Complexity Rules Everything Around Me
27.10
13:00 - 15:00
Eleanor Saitta
System Design
Ethical Algorithm: Art & Data as Political Tool
28.10
09:00 - 10.30
Tom Laurenzo
Humane Technology, Ethical A.I
The Professional Paradox of Self Knowledge: Coming out for Creatives
28.10
10:30 - 12:00
Daniel Montano
Self & Identity
Eco-communities and shared living: autonomy through egalitarianism
28.10
13:00 - 14:00
Penny Clark
Social / Cultural Anthropology
Cyber Security & The Gender Gap
28.10
14:00 - 15:00
Hila Meller
FemTech & Cyber Security
The Internet Alchemy
28.10
15.30 - 17:00
Pepe Borrás
Human Technology & Data Privacy
Design Fiction & World-Building
29.10
09:45 - 10:30
Pebbles Lin
Design Fiction
Identity & Intersectionality
29.10
13:00 - 15:00
Cecilia Gentili
Self Discovery
Story Living on a Scaffold of Data
29.10
15:30 - 17:00
Nandi Nobell
Design Fiction
How the world of design has changed, from physical to digital - Case study: Isola Design District
09.11
10:00 - 12.00
Elif Reşitoğlu
Immersive Environments & Phygital Design
Looking Outside the Box
10.11
16:00 - 17:30
Amaka Nkele-Onyioha
Collective Identity & Culture Building