IR13s Project

Description of the individual project of this seminar.

What: My Personal Fribourg

task

• produce a representation of some objective or subjective aspect of the city of Fribourg
• think of your output object as something that should be informative to somebody arriving for the first time in Fribourg; think that you would do this work for the tourism office - in fact this is what we aim for: making representations interesting enough to be bought by the tourism office

examples

• emotive landscape : probably different streets produce different emotions on you - now walk in the city, record your emotions as you wander about, then take a map of the city and color-code the streets according to your emotive vocabulary. beside the kind of emotion, you might wish to represent also its intensity
• accessibility map: given a location in the city produce a map that colorcodes the distance to any other place when using the bus system at a given time

format

• physical nature: digital or physical
• sensorial modality: visualization, sonification, tangible, heat, etc.

constraints:

• the representation should measurable (quantified) and/or reproductible (explicit algorithm)

Why

• we want you to experience representation of data typically outside the engineering curriculum - we think that this provides you with a fresh and creative approach towards what representation can be
• it is important to make educational experiments close to the complexity and "messiness" (i.e. social and physical embodiment) of real-world conditions - and see your work actually used by somebody
• try other representation modes than visual

Output

• a physical or digital object
• an oral presentation of the project
• a written description of the project (2 pages excluding figures)

Schedule

• a mid-term review of the advancement of the project will consist in 5 minutes individual presentations
• the final project are presented at the end of the term, in 15 minutes sessions (10 minutes presentations, 5 minutes discussions)
• the written descriptions are to handed in by email to the instructors at latest one week before the final presentations

-- VladAtanasiu - 22 Feb 2013