How might we scrapbook MozFest? - a Lo-Fi Paper Circuitry Physical Computing Workshop

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[ ID ] 3030ce36-b73d-4242-8d9e-70b130ec1a9c

[ Submitter's Name ] David Cole [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Nexmap.org [ Submitter's Twitter ] @dmcole_

[ Space ] movement [ Secondary Space ] cities

[ Format ] hands-on

Description

In this hands-on workshop attendees use an 11x17, 3-fold template to explore and document their ideas and ambitions for the open web. The template is organized in six panels: five for ideation, one for a circuit that’s used to illuminate the ideas in two of the panels using LEDs. Exercises, panel to panel, include the use of sticky notes, abstraction laddering for “why” and “how,” an importance/difficulty matrix, a storyboard, a section for next steps, and a space for review from peers. Participants use a 3v battery, copper tape and low-profile LED circuit stickers from Chibitronics – solderless, peel-and-stick electronics modules for crafting circuits – to introduce illumination as a design element in the activity.

Agenda

Participants work in groups of four. The activity begins with a simple circuit exercise, creating an illuminated tag for their conference badges – this teaches the basics of paper circuitry. Team members then take turns presenting their work and personal and professional goals and concerns; they provide feedback to their peers, then complete their templates on their own, creating a standalone product and personal artifact, which includes elements of story, project planning, prioritization, illumination, and actionable next steps. Participants share their work with someone outside their group, then present their project in a gallery walk. Finished templates can be organized on walls, hung in public spaces as an installation of “project letters or statements,” bound in albums for sharing. See these URLs for examples of this process at the United States Patent & Trade Office’s National Summer Teacher Institute in July: bit.ly/2aUvFhr bit.ly/2arSnww bit.ly/2ajRQNZ bit.ly/2aFb0Ag

Participants

This session can be run for small or large groups – it is a uniform activity in that each participant completes the same template and goes through the same steps. Larger #s require some support backup coaching from people with facilitation experience and an understanding of a paper circuit. The “How Might We” prompt will likely be a familiar point of entry on the activity for participants. The circuitry work is basic as well.

Outcome

This activity is based on the 21st Century Notebooking project developed by NEXMAP.org in San Francisco and launched in the fall of 2013 with the National Writing Project – this work focuses on a low-cost, paper-based approach to hands-on learning and event documentation that supports the introduction of a tinkering mindset and the fundamentals of electronics hand-in-hand with interdisciplinary literacies and design principles. The activity is well-suited to educators and organizers interested in bringing an accessible, inclusive creative learning experience about documentation and sharing to their communities. As a visioning and skill-building experience, the activity models how to roadmap ideas, priorities, and project objectives through a set of exercises organized as a structured and personal ideation process. This may be useful for organizers, researchers, team members, and project leads with their own working groups and professional communities.

[msaunby]

Handing this over to Youth zone cc @EPIKhub

[EPIKhub]

Stipend no longer needed so session accepted

[EPIKhub]

Session accepted in the Youth Zone