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Dear Students,

Welcome to the studio! I hope summer is going well and that you either have or will receive your maker kits soon. As a warm-up, pre-studio activity we will examine traces of social activism and disruption in our respective neighborhoods or environments. 

Objective: Understand that social mobilization takes place all around us and that it is traceable.

Instructions:

1. Look for a strip of pink dot stickers in your Maker Kit. You will use these to tag instances of activism or public expression.
2. Wear a mask and go for a walk in your neighborhood. Focus on areas of assembly or where there's a lot of foot traffic. You might find posters, graffiti, artifacts, signs or traces of activity that address an issue of local or global significance.
3. Tag a pink dot next to what you find and take in a photograph in landscape mode. Make sure the pink dot can be easily seen.
4. Draw a map of your walk. Use pencil or pen on a piece of paper to illustrate important locations and streets on your map. Identify the locations of your findings.

Post your following deliverables here:

1. Photographs with captions that identify what you saw and what issue is being addressed.
2. A map of your walk. Download Adobe Scan app for Apple or Android devices and use it to scan images if necessary.

Dear Students,

Welcome to the studio! I hope summer is going well and that you either have or will receive your maker kits soon. As a warm-up, pre-studio activity we will examine traces of social activism and disruption in our respective neighborhoods or environments. 

Objective: Understand that social mobilization takes place all around us and that it is traceable.

Instructions:

1. Look for a strip of pink dot stickers in your Maker Kit. You will use these to tag instances of activism or public expression.
2. Wear a mask and go for a walk in your neighborhood. Focus on areas of assembly or where there's a lot of foot traffic. You might find posters, graffiti, artifacts, signs or traces of activity that address an issue of local or global significance.
3. Tag a pink dot next to what you find and take in a photograph in landscape mode. Make sure the pink dot can be easily seen.
4. Draw a map of your walk. Use pencil or pen on a piece of paper to illustrate important locations and streets on your map. Identify the locations of your findings.

Post your following deliverables here:

1. Photographs with captions that identify what you saw and what issue is being addressed.
2. A map of your walk. Download Adobe Scan app for Apple or Android devices and use it to scan images if necessary.

If you have used the NuVu Platform before AND you remember your password, then skip to STEP 4 and 5. If this is your first time using the Platform or if you have forgotten your password, then follow all of the steps below. 

STEP 1: In the top-right corner, click the word "login." 

STEP 2: When the black menu appears, click "reset password," and enter your school email address, and then click "Send Password Reset Link."

STEP 3: Check your school email account for an email from NuVu. Be sure to check your junk email folder as well if you don't see the email in your inbox. Follow the instructions in the email to reset your password.

STEP 4: You should now see your name in the top right corner. Success! (your screen will look slightly different than mine). Under "Studios" click on our current studio, "Cyborg Enhancements". You can also find this studio by clicking on your name in the top right corner.

STEP 5: You are now on the landing page for our studio for the rest of the term! To let me know that you have succeeded in making it this far, make a celebratory comment under the post "comment here!" This post will only appear if you have logged in successfully. 

Session 3: Aug 3-14, 2020

Are you passionate about social activism, want to make change in the world or your community but not sure where to begin? Have you walked in the March for our Lives, left school for the Climate change walk out or volunteered to advocate for a local or national politician? In America today there are many movements that are highly effective in making waves in our society such as Black Lives Matter, whose causes were started by the idea and drive of one young person. Whether it was knitters creating a pink hat movement for women’s rights or Shepard Fairey’s Obama posters and logo, these small contributions to a cause had a butterfly effect in their outreach and impact. In this studio you can create devices, objects and interventions that use Art as a medium for Social change.

Students will use the power of graphic design, digital design (computer aided drafting, 3D modeling), and prototyping techniques to create interactive devices, objects and installations. For instance, Ghost Bikes, bicycles painted white and left at the scene where a cyclist lost their lives, calls attention to dangerous conditions for cyclists or the Teeter-totter wall, which allows children on both sides of the US/Mexico border to see saw together. No matter your passion, get ready to design impactful public pieces that can express your stance on a powerful issue of this generation!

REGISTER HERE!

Focus Skills/Subjects/Technologies:

   Graphic Design

   Industrial Design

     Interaction Design

   3d Modeling

Prerequisites:

• Enrolling students must be any of the following:
  • High School Student
  • Post-High School Gap Year Student

REGISTER HERE!