Junk Hacking and Sustainable Interactive Systems
Junk Hacking + Sustainable Interactive Systems: Hands-On Workshop
2 hours
Description: In this workshop, we will discuss the future of interactive electronic systems, and prototyping, in relation to sustainability. We will then create extreme, imaginative, and speculative designs that cannibalize electronic junk from the past 30 years. For example: hair dryers, mobile tape cassettes and robotic children’s toys.
This is what you will need for this workshop:
- Laptop with Arduino software
- Arduino
- A small piece of electronic or mechanical junk if you have one
- Pcomp tools:
Pliers
Screwdrivers
Small screwdrivers
Wire stripers
If you don´t have any of these tools we will be using the ones we have at the shop and share what we have. There is no need to buy anything.https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Good items to consider bringing: mechanical toys (RC cars, Furby, etc.), walkman, polaroid camera, old pagers, hair dryers. (anything with small motors)
Items not suitable: Blenders, Smartphones, Large items such as TVs and A/C units, items with Lithium batteries, anything with an extremely large current draw.
Kathleen McDermott is a media artist with a background in installation and sculpture. She uses a combination of textiles, sculptural materials and open-source electronics to craft absurd wearable technology pieces that aim to explore the relationship between human bodies and technology, in both real and imagined scenarios. In addition to her artistic practice, she is an advocate for accessible technology education, sharing tutorials for working with DIY electronics on https://urbanarmor.org/. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Cornell University, an MFA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She is currently a Visiting Industry Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media (IDM) at NYU.
Kathleen McDermott- Visiting Industry Assistant Professor, NYU Tandon-IDM