Computational Design is the first part of Pilot Year’s Foundations Tier (five short, skills based workshops). This particular Foundation will run full time for the next two weeks and is being taught by Patrick Kochlik and Dennis Paul of The Product from Berlin, Germany.
From the course syllabus:
In this course we investigate the manifold potentials of software. We will look at software as a concept for describing processes, as a medium for describing interactivity, and as a tool for telling stories.
Computational design can be defined as:
the discipline of applying computational approaches to design problems, whether related to presentation, analysis or aesthetic expressions.
Fundamentally, the goal of this course will be to get each student comfortable with programming and the Processing programming environment will be our tool of choice. But as the introduction above suggests, it will be an exploration of computer code as an artistic medium and programming as a creative process. We will learn strategies for creating computational processes and applying software and systems to design problems. We can take today’s class as a case in point that this is about more than learning how to program — we did not even open our computers!
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