Calendar

• Post Class Documentation 12/21

  

  A rainbow at Convenience Store

  Please document and share your work with chris as a: pdf, images (jpeg, png, etc.), or video file and include a short written description of your work describing your project. Make sure to send chris documentation for:

  • Modified Tool
  • Product for Unproductivity
  • Product for Research
  • Exercise: Unproductive Flowchart
  • Exercise: Production Precepts

  If you don't have artifacts from the exercises let chris know.

  Please zip your documentation and send to chris at chamamoto@snu.ac.kr via WeTransfer by December 23rd.

  Please collect your assets/production files (images, gifs, pdfs, etc.) for the show and any photo documentation you may have and upload to Google Drive here: Convenience Store on Google Drive
• Week 16 Exhibition/Store 12/15

  

  Setting up furniture at Pop Namsan

  • Meet at 10:00 at Pop Namsan to install the exhibition/store. Please be prepared to:
    • Install your work with your projects in-hand
    • Assemble furniture, paint, put up vinyl (etc.)
    • Have a working plan within your group to make best use of our time together
  • We'll use class time to finish installing as much as possible and create a plan for Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon indcluding schedule and workflow for taking orders, and deinstall

  • Attending the shop :)
• Week 15 Show Preparation 12/08

  

  Furniture for Collective question : Loosely assemble by Mathieu Lambert, 2022

  • Meet in room 326
  • 10am-11am: Optional 1:1 and group check-ins
  • 11am-2pm: groups share store progress and finalize deliverables / working time
    • Identify and resolve blockers
    • Create install plan and timeline
    • Decide programming and group meeting time(s) in the space
    • Finalize and assign list of tasks with due dates

  • Final Research Product due
  • Prepare for install next Thursday Dec 15th at Pop
  • Prepare for opening reception
• Week 14 Space and Activities 11/31

  

  Boiling Room for Hot Reading, Werkplaats Typografie participants, 2018

  • Class check-in and working session on Group Storefront
  • 1:1 or small group check in on Research Product
    • More info and sign up here

  • Final Research Product due
  • Group Storefront deliverables ready for install over the next week
• Week 13 Goods and Services 11/24

  

  Dexter Sinister's Ludlow Street basement workshop

  • Group check-ins on progress on Project 2: Step 3, sign up here
  • chris shares some store/exhibition references
  • Group Storefront brainstorming exercises

  • Make progress on your storefront group's deliverables
  • Final Research Product
• Week 12 Storefront 11/17

  

  Return Of Investment, 2014, Website. Jonas Lund

  • Class starts at 10:30am
  • chris shares about Typeface as Research
  • Review Project 2: Step 3 prototypes of your Research Product with the group
  • Discussion on Group Storefront

  • Continue making progress on your Research Product, keeping in mind the due date of December 1
  • Confirm your participation and role in the group storefront with chris via Kakaotalk
• Week 11 Workshop 11/10

  

  Fixed Work Hours, 2019. Website, clock. Min Guhong Mfg.

  • Optional 1:1 meetings during our normal class session in chris' research lab room 326, sign up here
  • Instead we will meet this weekend Nov 12 and 13 from 1-3pm at AG Lab / Min Guhong Mfg. for the workshop with Min Guhong Mfg.

  • Project 2: Step 3 bring in prototypes of your Research Product to discuss with the group
  • Reflect on your favorite offline and online shopping experiences/stores, and be prepared to share them with the class
• Week 10 Research 11/02

  

  Charactron Tube Diagram (US Patent 2735956)

  • Catch up on student presentations
  • Reading discussion about “...meet the Tetracono”: An Interview with David Reinfurt by Aryn Beitz
  • Share P2: Step 2 – Research Dossier
  • Chris shares about Typeface as Research

  • Select one product direction and make progress on a prototype for review on Thurs Nov 17
  • Reminder: the weekend of Nov 12 and 13 is the workshop with Min Guhong. There will be no regular class and instead optional 1:1 meetings on Thurs Nov 10 as a result
• Week 9 Reflection 10/27

  

  Watchscan 1200dpi by Dexter Sinister

  • Class will be held on Zoom, with the option to call in remotely or come into the classroom to join. Zoom Link (pw: 948214)
    • Guest Lecture by Minkyoung Kim
    • Briefly share P1 results with Minkyoung and her student Jingyu Feng in small groups
    • Present research on anyonymous object (Step 1 of P2: Product for Research) to the class
    • chris shares on p2 next steps – research dossier

  • Create a research dossier booklet with 2 product proposals based on feedback to your presentations from the class

  • Read “...meet the Tetracono”: An Interview with David Reinfurt by Aryn Beitz and prepare 3 questions/discussion points for next class
• Week 8 Unproductivity 10/20

  

  PDU Stencil by Dries Wiewauters

  • Group critique for P1: Product for Unproductivity
  • Intro P2: Product for Research (see intro slides here)

  • Step 1 of P2: Product for Research–create a 10 min presentation researching an "anonymous" product to share with the class
  • Be prepared to quickly share your P1 outcome with guest speaker Minkyoung Kim and Jingyu Feng
• Week 7 Assembly 10/13

  

  McDonald's Speedee mascot

  • Small group meetings to discuss progress on step 3 of P1: Product for Unproductivity and results from Exercise: Production Precepts – sign up for a meeting time here

  • Final outcome for P1: Product for Unproductivity
• Week 6 Progress 10/06

  

  Ruin of Buckminster Fuller’s Union Tank Car Dome.

  • Discuss Toxic Positivity (be prepared with with 2-3 questions to discuss)
  • Share results from Exercise: Production Precepts
  • Small group meetings to discuss progress on step 3 of P1: Product for Unproductivity

  • Progress on P1: Product for Unproductivity, the final due date has been moved back 1 week to October 20

  • Make progress on P1: Product for Unproductivity
• Week 5 Manufacturing 09/29

  

  Tree visualizing nodes by unknown author

  • Present your product ideas
  • Lecture: Production and Manufacturing
  • Exercise: Production Precepts

  • A short presentation (approx. 8 mins) describing your topic, why you want to focus on it, and what your product is

  • Begin step 3 of P1: Product for Unproductivity – begin visualizing and prototyping your product
  • Finish Exercise: Production Precepts

  • Read Toxic Positivity by Drew Zeiba and prepare 3 questions/discussion points for next class
• Week 4 Algorithms 09/22

  

  Today Series Paint Swatches, by On Kawara

  • Discuss areas of unproductivity you'd like to explore
  • Lecture: Algorithms and Processes
  • Exercise: Unproductive Flowchart

  • An area of unproductivity you'd like to explore via a product

  • Step 2 of P1: Product for Unproductivity – propose a product for unproductivity. Create a short presentation (approx. 8 mins) describing your topic, why you want to focus on it, and what your product is, and share it with the class. The presentation can be in the format of your choice (slideshow, are.na channel, collection of jpegs, etc.).
• Week 3 Productivity 09/15

  

  How to Do Nothing, by Jenny Odell

  • Review outcomes from Exercise: Modified Tool
  • Kickoff P1: Product for Unproductivity

  • Final outcome and documentation for Exercise: Modified Tool in the form of an A4 publication

  • Step 1 of P1: Product for Unproductivity – determine an area of unproductivity you'd like to explore via a product
• Week 2 Itteration 09/08

  

  Death Imitates Language by Harm van den Dorpel

  • Reading Discussion The Poetry of Tools
  • Lecture: Repetition and Modification
  • Small Group Meetings to discuss Exercise: Modified Tool

  • Progress on Exercise: Modified Tool showcasing your direction and formal experimentation

  • Finalize Exercise: Modified Tool and bring in your documentation of your "modified" product in an A4 printed publication.
• Week 1 Adaptation 09/01

  

  Penjet in use by Jaan Evart, Julian Hagen and Daniël Maarleveld

  • Introductions and Class overview
  • Kickoff Exercise: Modified Tool
  • Lecture: Modified Forms

  • Continue working on Exercise: Modified Tool – select a product and bring in formal outcomes that showcase alterations made by augmenting the product with an attachment, removing an element from the product to have it behave differently, and misusing your product.

  • Read The Poetry of Tools by Mindy Seu and prepare 3 questions/discussion points for next class