Jakob discussing his results. Photo by David a. Mellis.
Exercise #1 from the Computational Design workshop syllabus:
The introduction is followed by a one-day, hands-off exercise, ‘people as instruction processors’ [1]. the students will be asked to write down three instructions-sets. These
instructions will then be dictated to three other participants. The other participants will
process the instruction by drawing on a piece of paper with a red, green or blue marker.
The exercise aims at introducing the participants to programming as an everyday exercise,
a translation from intention into language into action. The result will be a set of very analog procedural drawings.
The final results of this exercise were rather inconsiquential but the exercise itself served as a good tool to begin thinking about procedures and how they apply to programming. And eventhough it was only a small portion of our workshop, displaying and encouraging the visitors to execute these instruction-sets during our exhibition helped give a better understanding to some of the thought-processes used to create the other projects on display.
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