BA 5th semester, Fall 2011
Lecturers: Karmen Franinovic & Florian Wille
New kinds of responsive materials are active in themselves: they can self-illuminate (electroluminescent paper) or self-move (electroactive polymers). What do such materials want to do? What kinds of shapes and structures are possible? What applications?
This course in on a crossroads of industrial design, architecture and interaction design. Students will have a unique opportunity to work within "Emotive Environments" research project and collaborate with EMPA: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology and ETH's Chair of CAAD. They will learn how to make active materials and incorporate them in different interactive product design and architecture concepts.
Part of "Emotive Environments" research project on responsive materials
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Florian Wille
Research Associate. BA Alumni. Mag.art in Convergent Industrial Design from the University of applied Arts Vienna.
Karmen Franinovic
Karmen is an architect and designer working with critical and playful uses of technology in everyday life. She pursues research in fields of sonic interaction, responsive environments, basic design, enaction and ...
An Electro Active Polymer Module developed during an interdisciplinary course on self-actuated surfaces at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2011.
Mentors: Karmen Franinovic & Florian Wille
Student: Dominique Schmutz