Activities

Activities (EDCP 471)

1. Reinterpret the Three Little Pigs
   1. Thinking outside the box
      1. OM challenge: Express the reinterpretation as a 4 min. talkshow segment (Groups of 4 @ equal participation)
   2. Disney’s Silly Symphony: Three Little Pigs
2. Design a Clothespin (or Clothes Peg)
   1. Problematizing ordinary and everyday designs
      1. OM challenge: Pitch the design to a Dragon’s Den (teams of 2 x 3 minutes)
      2. 5 minute Lesson Plan
      3. Canadian Patent Office search
      4. US Patent search
   2. EKLIPSE: Building a Better Clothespin
   3. Ryan, J. C. (1999). The clothesline. In Seven wonders: Everyday things for a healthier planet (pp. 35-43). San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club.
   4. Seven Wonders
   5. History of Clothespins
      1. The Economist
      2. AH’s Invention & Technology
      3. Maissoneuve, “Clothespin Encounters”
   6. Patent Explanation
   7. Related Everyday Design Challenges
      1. Redesign the Golf Tee
      2. Redesign the Paper Clip
   8. Model to Make: 3D Printing?
3. Design a Critter
   1. Basic mechanics, materials, and how thing work or Competing with existing designs
      1. OM challenge: Create a 1 minute explainer video
   2. Song et al. (2017). Computational design of wind-up toys.
   3. Wind-up toy motor reverse engineering
   4. Wind-up motor STEM lesson plan
   5. Mechanical Critters, an Interview with Chico Bicalho
   6. Kikkerland Collection of critters
      1. Critter dance (advert)
4. Design a piece of Transformer Furniture
   1. Transformer Brief from Future Cities
   2. Furniture Transformers (video)
   3. Yi-Cong Lu (no moving parts)
      1. Growing Cabinet
   4. Model Making
      1. Model Making Course
      2. Illustrative Model Making
5. Design a Halloween Prop: Frightening & Inviting Animatronics & Mechatronics (Halloween)
   1. Halloween Hacking & Animatronics Challenge
   2. Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House
6. Design a Hitchbot
   1. The Hitchbot
   2. “Hitchhiking Robot, Safe in Several Countries, Meets Its End in Philadelphia”
7. Design a Silent Movie
8. Designing Puppets & Marionettes