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Teaching: Product Design User Centred Deign

Course tutor Rob Phillips making full use of the physical space with his students to encourage collaboration in design.

Jul 27, 2010

Photos: 47

Workshops: Design Masterclasses

During 2006-7 a series of Design Masterclasses were held, primarily for Product Design Students, but open for all. Practitioners working within different aspects of the design process, from packaging to advertising, led 2 hour workshops.

Jul 27, 2010

Photos: 11

Workshop: PGCHE

New Lecturers on the PostGrad cert in HE course used the Creeativity zone for a few sessions to explore innovative approaches to teaching and learning. A number of these lecturers wen to use the space in their own teaching

Jul 27, 2010

Photos: 25

Teaching: Pervasive computing

Informatics students, with lecturer Dan Chalmers, used the space as a large laboratory for developing and testing code to drive sensor technology (phidgets). e.g. students used projections to test motion sensors (measuring how quickly a shadow passed between two points)

Jul 27, 2010

Photos: 28

Teaching: Product Design: Concept Cars 2007

This was the first cohort of product design students (Creative Styling course) using the creativity zone. Taught by Prof Peter Childs (the first Director of InQbate) they worked individually and then in groups to design 'concept cars' which would be realised in life sized drawings on Mylar paper and displayed at a public event.

Jul 26, 2010

Photos: 330

Teaching: Product Design: Advanced Colours and Textures

Tutor Cathy Grundy Taught this course as an exercise in Semiotics, with interactive web animations and design briefs, all supported by the use of projections to contextualise the experience. E.g. when desigining radiatiors and air cooling systems the students were immersed in hot and cold imagery.

Jul 26, 2010

Photos: 42

Teaching: Engineering group project

The short course "Managing the group project" was for final year engineering students and faciliated by a member of SPRU (Science policy research unit) at Sussex. It was a technology neutral session, using the physical space to promote collaborative group working.

Jul 26, 2010

Photos: 22

Teaching: PGCE Science

Students on the PGCE Science course were tasked with preparing posters for GCSE classes within a science discipline that was not their original degree speciality (eg Chrmistry graduates preparing Biology posters). These were then peer reviewed - using post-its to indicate positive, critical, questioning, etc.

Jul 23, 2010

Photos: 55

Teaching: Developmental Cell Biology / Ethics

Sociologist Catherine Will worked with the convenor of the MSc in Developmental Cell Biology , Ian Roberts, to devise a Role=play "ethics review" of research in the field. The students investigated the issues and then assumed Ethics committee roles in order to grill Ian about "his" research. Courtroom projections were used to add gravitas to the proceedings.

Jul 23, 2010

Photos: 19

Teaching: Drama - Animating the Archives (1)

Performance project (2nd yr UGs) devised by the students from working with the Mass Observation Archives in the Sussex University Library. Tutor Sara Jane Bailes, Spring and Summer 2009

Jul 20, 2010

Photos: 155

Teaching: PGCE Anti-bullying workshop

Teacher training sutudents engaged in an externally facilitated workshop on bullying. The entie cohort of around 100 students used the whole of the physical space in the zone was used to explore issues around personal space, proximity and threatening behaviour.

Jul 20, 2010

Photos: 89

Teaching: Physics

Physics lecturer Winfried Hensinger takes an explicitly Social Constructivist approach to his teaching. The first year course "Frontiers in modern physics" is designed to get students working in supportive, collaborative, teams researching some of the ground breaking work currently being done in Physics. Crucial to the success of the course was the creation of a sense of "safe sapce" for students to practice their presentation skills. Positive peer critique and support an in informal and non-threatening environment helped to build the skills of the less confident students.

Jul 20, 2010

Photos: 30

Teaching: Visual Communication 2008

A course for Product Design and Informatics Media students, with tutor Diane Simpson-Little

Jul 20, 2010

Photos: 263

Teaching: Creative Styling 2008

A course for product Design students, run by tutor Diane Simpson-Little, where they engaged in practical and collaborative design activities, mainly using the physical affordances of the space, such as the whiteboard walls and ability to create large scale drawings on a clear floor space.

Jul 20, 2010

Photos: 184

Teaching: Archaeology

Life Sciences students, Past Lives (Paleontology), with tutor Liz Somerville, using the space to explore issues of size and "scaling up" when studying large extinct beasts such as dinosaurs and mammoths. Photographs of the campus were projected onto walls, students had to zoom in and out of these and estimate the size of the animals relative to the buildings. Blocks filled with water were used to illustrate the related increase in weight as the size of the animals increased, and the resulting demands on internal systems such as circulatory. In another course Liz had students working in groups to explore and present areas within medical archaeology

Jul 20, 2010

Photos: 119

Teaching: Engineering Tech 21

Increasingly students are having to produce digital displays of their work, such as professional quality posters. Creating a poster for display on a device such as a plasma screen or projector requires a different approach to the paper version. Engineering undergrads on the Tech 21 course, taught by Helen Prance, created academic 'posters' which were displayed on the plasma screens in the zone as part of their assessed work.

Jul 15, 2010

Photos: 17

Teaching: Immersive Seminar

The Sussex Language institute wanted to explore the possibiliies of immersing ESL students in a video of a seminar (filmed from 3 angles) in order to help them understand some of the visual and linguistic cues around when and how to interrupt and speak.

Jul 15, 2010

Photos: 6

Teaching: Product Design: Sketching and Design 2007

Taught by product design tutor Diane Simpson-Little, this was one of the first courses to use the creeativity zone for a whole term. The digitial technologies supported presentation and peer review, but the main benefits of the space were the opportunities it provided for collaborative group working at large scale

Jul 15, 2010

Photos: 75

Events: The Big Picture

A 2 day event to 'map' community and voluntary involvement at the University. Organised by River Jones (Centre for Community Engagement)

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 164

Student led events: War Representation and Documentary Conference

a 2 day conference organised by History and Media Students, with participants from Academia and Media

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 24

Workshops: Learner Generated Contexts Group

The LGC group was set up to explore the ways in which the learning context impacts upon the educational experience and success of the student. This national workshop was held in July 2008

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 93

Workshops: Same Sky Board

May 2008 a working meeting of the Same Sky Board of Trustees. Same Sky is a Brighton based community arts group who organise a number of events throughout the year - including the fabulous "Burning of Clocks" at the winter solstice.

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 301

Workshops: Xing Event 2008

A "dragon's den" type event, organised by the Regional Development office, January 2008

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 44

Student led events: HCT PG Conference

PostGraduate conference organised by Students from the Human Centred Technology Group in Informatics. Dec 2007

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 40

Teaching: Product Design prototype review

One of the first presentation / review sessions using the zone in March 2007. Students had designed kettles, which were presented along with a presentational 'pitch' and display. Examiners were drawn both from the university and Industry. Tutor Adrian Thomas. Subsequent cohorts of Product Design students used the space to display and present prototypes in lighting and toy design.

Jul 14, 2010

Photos: 336

Events: Maths education

An event in Dec 2007 to support the development of a Maths teaching network. Organised by Sussex School of Education

Jul 9, 2010

Photos: 30

Workshops: Links Conference

Forging cross-channel research links. An Anglo-French confrence organised by the Sussex Uni. Regional Development Office

Jul 9, 2010

Photos: 72

Student led events: Coding Dojo

An event organised by Informatics Postgrads for the Brighton Fringe 2007. A Coding Dojo - teams competed against each other, using Agile programming methods, to code an adventure game in one evening.

Jul 9, 2010

Photos: 32

Student Led events: Formula Student

The launch of the Suusex Mobil 1 car for the Formula Student competition 2009

Jul 9, 2010

Photos: 337

Student led events: Product Design Show 2007-2010

The end-of-year Product Design Shows in the Creativity Zone. Each years cohort of students took responsibility for layout, publicity and running their event. The first day was usually marking of the product and associated documentation, followed by 2-4 days of public access.

Jul 9, 2010

Photos: 94

Workshop: Architecture Inside Out (Site specific installations)

A group of Deaf artists and artists with disabilities met over a 2 day period in April 2008. In preparation for an installation at the Tate Modern, the group worked in pairs to share their artistic practices and create site-specific pieces for the Creativity Zone

Jul 8, 2010

Photos: 678

Student led events: Healey

It began when The Sussex VC, Michael Farthing, and Prof of Art History, David Mellor, had an idea about putting on an exhibition of the photography of Lord Healey .... the end result was a richly interactive, blended experience of the life, work and photography of Lord Healey - curated by undergraduate students from Art History, Media Studies and History. Photographs tagged AW in this collection are courtesy of Sussex security officer Arthur Willmer

Jul 8, 2010

Photos: 398

Student led events: photographic society

The USSU photographic society, exhibition and photographic competition, April 2009

Jul 7, 2010

Photos: 67

Events: Sirens: Sounding the Site 2009

An installation devised by Tom Hamilton, Anna Dumitriu, Petrusco & Bunty - The “Sirens” in Homer’s Odyssey lured sailors to their death with songs promising all the knowledge of the past and future. In this immersive piece technology is seen as offering similar promises. Projections of underwater scenes are used with the powerful blue LED lighting and arctic camouflage netting to create a disconcerting audience experience. Part of “Sounding the Site” (2009) which recreated episodes from the Odyssey around the Sussex campus.

Jul 7, 2010

Photos: 135

Case Study: Motion in Poetry: The Navier Stokes equations

Creative writing tutor Kim Lasky worked with Peter Childs, Prof of Engineering and the original project Director, to bring together Creative Writing and Engineering students in an exploration of the Navier Stokes equations. A set of complex differential equations they underpin the modelling of fluids in flow - smoke, water, oil, clouds, lava. The equations underpin the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics and can be a real challenge to students. The poject explored the consequences of treating the equations as poetry and grappled with the exploration of their meaning as represented by mathematics and poetry. a Video podcast was one output which was then used with subsequent cohorts of Engineering students.

Jul 7, 2010

Photos: 133

Student led events: Hobnob & Artplay

Autumn term 2009. Creative Arts / Media events organised and facilitated by Luska Mengham, an Art History graduate who had worked on the Healey Exhibition at the end of her second year at Sussex.

Jul 2, 2010

Photos: 631

The Blank Canvas

The design concept of a totally white, configurable, flexible, box means that the space can take on multiple 'personalities' via the use of tangible objects, projections and lighting.

Jul 2, 2010

Photos: 72

Original Interface

The original control interface - replaced in 2010

Jul 2, 2010

Photos: 7

Case Study: Product Design 2

Advanced Colours and Textures course, summer term 2008. Covering semiotics, visual cues in design. Use of projections to provide contextualisation, including a session on "designing for dangerous situations" - looking at the visibility of fire extinguishers.