Description:
In this Music + Wearables Workshop, you will spend the evening designing aconductive costume to create sound. Each iteration of costume design will work within a different constraint, i.e. first only using conductive thread, then introducing conductive tape, etc. We will use coil tape, thread, pressure/touch sensors and bare conductive boards which you can program to render any sounds or songs you desire.
Watch an example of how a bare board works and just think of how many things we could do with it!
And here is some additional inspirationfor conductive costumes, using all of the materials we'll be working with!
Materials:
PLEASE NOTE, MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED!If you're interested in taking your costume home, there will be an associated materials cost of $10-$15depending on the amount of materials.
Teachers:
Stefania Druga
Innately curious and passionate about creating and testing new learning models, instructional designer by training, evolved into a learning architect.Stefaniais also a former Googler and graduated from an international Erasmus Mundus master of Media Engineering for Education (France, Spain, Portugal).In the summer of 2012 she was also the Education Teaching Fellow atSingularity Universitywhere she advised and coached 80 students from 36 countries. Currently, she is leadingHackidemiaorganization (mobile lab for maker Education present in 40 countries),Afrimakers(community of Maker projects in 10 Africa countries) andMakerCamp(global camps for learning how to build and run makerspaces)Stefaniais also an an ambassador for globalMakerFairein Berlin and Shenzhen and is preparing anew kit for maker educationin schools. Currently she is a Flatiron School fellow and NYU visiting scholar and she is always looking for creative ways to combine hardware and software with art, music and design.
Nancy Otero
Nancy Otero Ornelas is interested in creating, testing, and transforming learning experiences related to STEM thinking in a way that can be adopted by the educational system, whilecollecting data about the learning process of the individual learner and the educational institution.She wants to change the self-perception of oppressed individuals through the empowerment of making, and is very interested in any methods that can foster that change, from brief interventions to the FabLab.
Adelle Lin
Trained in math, strategy and more recently architecture, Adelle Lin explores ways of creating unique experiences that integrate digital elements and physical spaces in playful ways. By day she produces interactives for the New-York Historical Society Museum and by night is a playful unicorn at NYC Resistor. Just completing her Creativity + Technology = Enterprise residency at Harvestworks gallery, she has recently exhibited works at A Maze. Festival, Maker Faire New York, Come Out and Play Festival, and Different Games Conference. Having previously lived in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia, her diverse background has given her the ability to see the world through different lenses. She joined the Code Liberation Foundation to work with women from all walks of life to leverage code and game design as a tool for expression and empowerment.
Schedule:
6:30 Arrive/Network/Food
6:40 Welcome from Women Who Code + hosts
6:45 Instruction begins!
Who is this event for?
Anyone interested! No previous experience required!
Events are intended for people who identify as women unless otherwise noted and are always open to trans gender. OurCode of Conductapplies to all events run by Women Who Code, Inc.
HOST:We [Hook & Loop] are the internal creative agency and R&D think-tank for Infor, the worlds largest start-up.We were formed in 2012 with the mandate to drive Infors products past functionality and into more meaningful experiences. Disparate platforms, frameworks, and interaction patterns made it difficult to unify Infors UI/UX, but we did it in under a year. Now were building new apps from the ground up while we continue to imagine the future of Infor software.Within Infor, we work with everyone: from strategy and development to marketing, sales, and support. As a central touch point for every team, we infuse our passion for beauty and simplicity into the way Infor products are built, marketed, and supportedand where Infor is going next.
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