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Update #8: Back to School; Around the World!
Hello Kickstarter friends!
We've had a busy summer leading workshops on the High Line and in the classroom at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. But this fall we're getting back to the project we love most: Project: Interaction.
We'll be teaching once again at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women in Brooklyn, NY. We're updating our class to include a community service project where our students will be able to work with a local organization through design.
We're on the move! We're headed to Philadelphia for the Design in Action 2011 Conference. We'll be speaking on a panel about the unique collaborators (that's you guys!) that made our project a success.
In November we're heading East to Hong Kong for the International Conference on Interaction Design where we'll present a paper we co-authored about the potential for design education alongside STEM initiatives.
That's it for now! We're excited to hear what you all are up to. Thank you all again for making our project possible. We are so lucky to have a great community of support here on Kickstarter!
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Update #7: Heading Toward the Finish Line of Lap 1
This Wednesday is our second to last class at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women. It’s been a tremendous learning experience for us and our students.
Our top ten moments from this semester:
10. As newbie teachers, we were extremely grateful for the support we received from the UAI administration and Girl’s Inc. Offering great advice about teaching high school students, we entered each class with confidence in our leadership abilities and design expertise.
9. Using Moleskine sketchbooks and post-its to record their thoughts, we saw how creativity empowers students to share their ideas as well as support their fellow classmates.
8. In week 6 we learned about the effects post-Halloween candy binging has on high school girls. After an hour and a half of saying “Shh!” and “Please, no talking!” we were finally broken. Luckily we had a whole week off before coming back and starting anew, with a seriously heightened respect for teachers who do this every day.
7. We were amazed in our first week of teaching when all of our students could name off the components of feedback from the MTA turnstiles.
6. When we asked our students to share a problem they know about in the world we got this response: “Dude. I just found out that people are like, getting sued, for sharing information. Like Google buzz and stuff. What’s up with that?!”
5. On our Observation field trip in week 3 one of our students got an unexpected lecture from a Jane Jacobs-ian architect who told her about the horrors of restrictive urban planning.
4. Never content to do all the work themselves, our girls often ask that we participate in activities with them, including our class about bodystorming – they made us act out our own scene, with Carmen pretending to be a little old lady.
3. In response to design strategist Rachel Abrams’ story about her career path, a couple of our students took some amazing sketch-notes! Magic does happen when you give free reign to teenage girls armed with a marker and sticky notes.
2. After leaving R/GA one of our students turned to me and said, “Oh my gosh! I could make a sketch of how I want my video to be before I actually start making it. That would really save me a lot of wasted time.” Light bulb. On!
1. During our class with Transportation Alternatives, in response to a few of our skeptical students who questioned the effectiveness of redesigning city streets to accommodate bicycles and pedestrians, one student remarked: “It’s about the bigger picture.”
Read the all of the class recaps over on our blog:
http://projectinteraction.org/category/teaching/
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Laura Jakosky on November 29, 2010
What a cool program! Excited to hear about the successes...great inspiration indeed. :)
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Update #6: 15 Hours Left!!
Hi everyone,
We made it!! We're in the last few hours of our project. Thank you all so much for helping us exceed our goal. We can't wait to share the great news with our schools and start getting additional programs set up in the spring time.
We had an incredible weekend at the Re:Form School, meeting a lot of new friends, and seeing some old ones too. Thanks to everyone who came out to support Re:Form School and our project!! With everyone's help we created a wall of Post-It note art in response to our inquiry: "What do the words Invent Design Change mean to you?" We got some pretty awesome sketches, with some people sitting for quite awhile contemplating the question we posed!
We still have about 15 hours to raise funds for the project. If you know of anyone who might like to help us with the purchase of supplies, including books, sketchbooks, pens, papers, pencils, post-its and more, please share our project with them!
We're looking forward to meeting many of you in the coming months as our project grows.
THANKS!!!
Katie & Carmen
Update #5: We made it!!!
Thank you all for helping us surpass our fundraising goal, with 4 days to spare!
If you're in NYC we can't wait to meet you at our event tomorrow at 3pm at Re:Form School called "Invent Design Change!" Come help us create post-it note art, meet other design-minded folks, and record your own story about how you learned about design. Woohoo!
Details: http://projectinteraction.org/2010/10/07/invent-design-change/
See you soon and have a fantastic weekend!
Katie & Carmen
Update #4: Please join us Sunday!
We have only 6 days left to meet our fundraising goal, and we're getting close!
In the last three weeks we’ve brought together an online community of people who are passionate about design education. Now we’re inviting our online community to join us offline for an event this weekend to celebrate arts and design in education.
We’re teaming up with Re:Form School, a REDU project that has transformed an abandoned school into a gallery of art for the enjoyment of all.
If you're in NY, please join us!
- Record your own story answering “How did you first learn about design?”
- Contribute your ideas and sketches to our giant wall of sticky note art!
- Meet other awesome people who love art, design and education!
Invent Design Change!
Sunday, October 10, 3pm-6pm
Re:Form School
233 Mott St. (at Prince)
Check out the other things we've been up to on our blog:
How did you first learn about design? - See the answers to this question from a few of our favorite designers, and send us your story!
Greetings from Rhode Island - Read about our weekend at the Better World by Design conference in Providence
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Last fall, prominent interaction designer Kim Goodwin spoke to an eager audience of new students at the School of Visual Arts about the importance of education in preparing new practitioners to join the growing and still maturing field of Interaction Design.
We were inspired to take action. We've spent the last year researching education, interviewing teachers and students, and exploring a program that we could bring to New York City students.
Project: Interaction is our response to Kim's call to help grow our practice through education. Our program will introduce high school students to interaction design and show them how they can use design to change their communities.
