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PEDAGOGICAL PORTFOLIO [2016-PRESENT]
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PROJECT TYPE [CURRICULA DESIGN, DESIGN PEDAGOGIES] ACADEMIC INSTITUTES [THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH] SCHOOLS/DEPARTMENTS [INSTITUTE OF DESIGN INFORMATICS (IDI, EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (ESALA), EDINBURGH FUTURE'S INSTITUTE (EFI), REID SCHOOL OF MUSIC (RSM)
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ENTROPY PROJECT WORKS ACROSS GRADUATE DESIGN STUDIOS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE GROUND-BREAKING PROTOCOLS OF DESIGN IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, THROUGH ORIGINAL BRIEF DEVELOPMENTS, TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS & RESEARCH SEMINARS. THE PROGRAMMES CATER TO STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS & SUPPORT CROSS-DOMAIN LEARNING EXPERIENCES THROUGH LEVERAGING MIXED PROFICIENCIES FROM DESIGN INFORMATICS, DIGITAL MEDIA & GAME DESIGN TO DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE & SOUND DESIGN, NOTABLE EXEMPLARS INCLUDE:
DARK FOREST [2020-PRESENT] [DIGITAL PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE ONLINE PUBLIC] [MSC DESIGN & DIGITAL MEDIA]. DEPARTING FROM CIXIN LIU'S RESPONSE TO THE FERMI PARADOX, THE UNIT INVESTIGATES WHAT ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS MIGHT ARISE AS THE PLANET SUCCUMBS TO AN EXISTENTIAL CATASTROPHE. THE UNIT DESIGNS DIGITAL PLAYGROUNDS OUT OF ULTRA-PRECISE SPATIAL DATASETS OF ENVIRONS USING METHODS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTER SIMULATION, DESIGN INFORMATICS & SOUND SYNTHESIS. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES INCLUDE INTERACTION-BASED DATA SCULPTURES, CINEMATIC INSTALLATIONS, SIMULATED EXPERIENCES, COMPUTER GAMES, EXTENDED REALITIES, DATA COMICS, ET CETERA.
DATA FOSSILS [2018-2020] [DIGITAL PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE ONLINE PUBLIC] [MSC DESIGN & DIGITAL MEDIA]. PRACTISING FROM A FUTUR ANTERIUR ‘WILL HAVE HAPPENED POSITION’, AS FUTURE UNBORN, DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS & FORENSIC INTELLIGENCES––THE UNIT EXPLORES DATA REPOSITORIES AS A VIRTUAL GRAVEYARD OF AN EXTINCT CIVILISATION & REMOTE-SENSED POINT-CLOUD DIGITAL DATASETS AS INFORMATION FOSSILS. THE BRIEF IS TO REVERSE-DESIGN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS OUT OF THE DATA FOSSILS INDEXING URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES & FRAGILE ECOLOGIES, USING COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION, MACHINE LEARNING, DATA VISUALISATION, IMMERSIVE MODELLING, SOUND SYNTHESIS, DIGITAL ANIMATION, ARCHITECTURAL DIAGRAMMING AND PHILOSOPHY-DRIVEN SPECULATIVE FICTION.
DIGITAL DOPPELGANGERS [2018-PRESENT] [DIGITAL MEDIA STUDIO PROJECT] [MSC DESIGN & DIGITAL MEDIA]. THE UNIT SITUATES DESIGN INTELLIGENCE IN DE-HUMANISED TERRITORIES OF COGNITION WHERE EXPERIENCE DISINTEGRATES, WHERE OBJECTS CAN EXIST IN MULTIPLE PLACES AT THE SAME TIME, WHERE EVENTS ARE SMEARED ACROSS SPATIAL BOUNDARIES, WHERE STREAMS OF PERCEPTS DIVERGE, SCALES COALESCE AND HISTORIES FRACTURE––UNTIL ‘SITUATEDNESS’ IS CLEAVED APART. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES ARE MULTI-MODAL ARTEFACTS THAT RETURN TO THE HAPTIC FOLD, THE NON-COGNITIVE, THE NON-TRANSLATABLE, THE NOT-YET & THE NO-LONGER: INTERACTION-BASED DATA SCULPTURES, CINEMATIC INSTALLATIONS, SIMULATED EXPERIENCES, COMPUTER GAMES, EXTENDED REALITIES, DATA COMICS, INTERACTIVE APPS, WEB EXPERIENCES, CHAT-BOTS.
DESIGN WITH DATA [2018-PRESENT] [MSC DESIGN INFORMATICS]. THE UNIT INTEGRATES DESIGN PRINCIPLES WITH DATA SCIENCE INTO AN AUGMENTED INTERFACE TO GENERATE INTERACTION-BASED ARTEFACTS ON THEMES RANGING FROM EX-RISKS & ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TO DE-CENTRALISED NETWORKS WHILE OBSERVING THE EPISTEMIC NORMS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH. TO DESIGN WITH DATA SIGNALS A CONGRUENCE AND COPRODUCTION––OR RATHER, DATA BECOMING ‘COMPLICIT’ IN THE DESIGN PROCESSES, IT ENTAILS TO BE OPEN-TO CONTINGENCIES & MADE SOFT IN AN INVERSE MECHANISM. THE OUTCOMES INCLUDE DATA PHYSICALISATION, HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION DESIGN, MACHINE-LEARNING STATISTICAL MODELS, ROBOTIC INTERFACES, ELECTRONIC SENSORS & LARGE-SYSTEM DESIGN PROJECTS.
RADICAL HARVEST & RADICAL CO-AUTHORSHIP [2018-PRESENT] [ARCHITECTURE DESIGN THREE EXPLORATION] [BA ARCHITECTURE]. CO-TAUGHT UNDER THE COURSE LEAD OF DR SIMONE FERRACINA, THE UNIT[S] INVESTIGATES "THE REUSE, REPURPOSING & REVALUING OF WASTE MATERIALS" THROUGH 1-1 SCALE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROTOTYPES IN THE STUDIO ENVIRONS––& MORE RECENTLY, LIVE PROJECTS AT GRANTON WATERFRONT IN COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL CHARITIES & SOCIAL ENTERPRISES. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PEDAGOGY AND PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STUDIO BRIEFS, SEE FERRACINA, SIMONE. ECOLOGIES OF INCEPTION: DESIGN POTENTIALS ON A WARMING PLANET. ABINGDON AND NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE, 2022.
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