{"id":228,"date":"2020-05-21T22:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/?p=228"},"modified":"2020-05-21T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T02:19:48","slug":"quarantine-planning-for-the-fall-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/2020\/05\/21\/quarantine-planning-for-the-fall-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Planning for the Fall Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m scheduled to teach another semester of Making Things Interactive this fall, but teaching physical computing remotely?\u00c2\u00a0 Without student access to a physical computing lab, laser cutters, and 3d printers?<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m a designer, let’s do some research!<\/p>\n

Which starts with Alton Brown’s and his wife Elizabeth’s “Quarantine Quitchen<\/a>“, where they make dinner with whatever they have handy and maybe a drink.\u00c2\u00a0 Or two.\u00c2\u00a0 I certainly have a drink (or two) before the livestream starts.\u00c2\u00a0 They love each other today, but like my spouse and I, are really tired of looking at one another.<\/p>\n

I’ve learned a lot about “improv cooking”, and am going to start documenting my own quarantine cooking<\/a> on my personal blog.<\/p>\n

So now I’m thinking, “what is improv interaction design?”\u00c2\u00a0 That is, “what can students do from their apartment, room at their parents’ house, or quarantine space?”\u00c2\u00a0 What sort of kit can we send them they can use to do assignments?\u00c2\u00a0 What if they live in another country and shipping is a pain or some items are on trade tariff restrictions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m scheduled to teach another semester of Making Things Interactive this fall, but teaching physical computing remotely?\u00c2\u00a0 Without student access to a physical computing lab, laser cutters, and 3d printers? Hey, I’m a designer, let’s do some research! Which starts with Alton Brown’s and his wife Elizabeth’s “Quarantine Quitchen“, where they make dinner with whatever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnegie-mellon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}