Research and Practice Seminar "City and Technology". Part 1

Master 2020/2021

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Compulsory course (Prototyping Future Cities)

Area of studies: Urban Planning

Delivered by: Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism

Where: Faculty of Urban and Regional Development

When: 1 year, 1, 2 semester

Mode of studies: offline

Instructors: Egor Kotov, Сафонова Ирина Игоревна

Master’s programme: Prototyping Future Cities

Language: English

ECTS credits: 10

Contact hours: 136

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The 1st part of the course will run over 18 weeks in the laboratory setting. Every two weeks a particular aspect of technological fabrication, such as digital manufacturing, electronics or programming, will be explained and practiced. The course will include networking with other international fabrication laboratories, and some of the projects will be developed in collaboration with international groups and team leaders in a remote mode. As a result of the course, students will be able to integrate multiple technologies and information sources in their projects during the Master program. The 2nd part of the course will last for 18 weeks during which students will be fully immersed in the laboratory work. Every two weeks a particular aspect of the city metabolism will be studied, including presentations of state-of-the art technology and its impact on city infrastructure. Subsequently, every student will develop a technological project covering one of the city layers (information, water, energy, recycled resources, mobility or environment) and reflecting on how information systems can help develop new formats of urban functioning. Every two weeks students will present the progress of their technological project.

Learning Objectives

The course implies students’ active involvement in creating new technologies using laboratory equipment. The goal of the course is to teach students how to make technological elements using digital manufacturing, electronics and programming. Also the course will teach students how to treat resources in their projects and in the management of the city.
By acquiring relevant skills students will learn to produce a variety of mechanisms, sensors, microcomputers, information platforms and other elements that can be used at the city scale. The course consists of exercises that help familiarise with these technologies and encourage students to produce more complex objects throughout the Master program.
This course involves students’ immersion in the laboratory work. The key objective of the course is to provide students with deep knowledge of technical, economic and social aspects of the city infrastructure and its functioning. These include information, water, energy, recycled resources, food, mobility and environment and their integration in the process of city development.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Introduces on how to manage a project in the progress and which tools and software can help on that; Students will be invited to propose a final project (which can be changed in the learning progress); Introduces basic web development – HTML, CSS Students make their blog page on the master program students blog system
Introduces electronics and electric circles basics, followed by electronics production: PCB fabrication, materials, milling, soldering, components, assembly
Embedded programming: architecture, peripherals, memory, processors, languages, boards - assignment: program a board - Interface and application programming: languages, device, data and user interfaces, graphics, multimedia
Introduces the cnc milling tools and processes, which can be used to mill a variety of materials, and scales from micrometers up to meters
Introduces the group of molding and casting technologies, materials which can be used, processes, machines required, and software needed
Introduces a useful tool for many applications: 3d scanning, tools, software, and how to use it to scan small and big things, up to buildings
Introduces one of the main tools used in digital fabrication: Rhinoceros and Grasshopper addon for the algorithms aided design
Fabrication and project technics development
Augmented reality platform development
presentation skills developemnt
Learning programming and computation
production of electronic device

Course Contents

Introduction to digital fabrication + laser cutting
Introduces the network of FabLabs all over the world, typical machines and equipment, safety training, rights and responsibilities and the summary of the course
Physical computation with arduino + programming
Follows the previous topic and tops it up with tools and software required to make an electronic device
Introduction to electronics and physical computing
Introduces electronics and electric circles basics, followed by electronics production: PCB fabrication, materials, milling, soldering, components, assembly
Digital Fabrication - cnc milling
Introduces the cnc milling tools and processes, which can be used to mill a variety of materials, and scales from micrometers up to meters
Digital Fabrication - vacuum forming
Introduces the group of molding and casting technologies, materials which can be used, processes, machines required, and software needed
Productive and monitoring prototype - physical computation, programming and computation
Introduces one of the main tools used in digital fabrication: Rhinoceros and Grasshopper addon for the algorithms aided design
3D scanning and infrared camera
Introduces a useful tool for many applications: 3d scanning, tools, software, and how to use it to scan small and big things, up to buildings
3d model based on point cloud from 3d scanning
Introduces a useful tool for many applications: 3d scanning, tools, software, and how to use it to scan small and big things, up to buildings
Physical computation - design, data and technologies integration
Physical computation - design, data and technologies integration
Working prototype development and fabrication
Prototype Development
Augmented reality
Augmented reality
Electronics and electricity basics
Electronics design: inventory, circuits, test equipment, software
Input devices: communication, switch, motion, distance, magnetic field, temperature, light, rotation
Output devices: power supplies, LED, LCD, video, speakers, servo motors
Embedded programming: architecture, peripherals, memory, processors, languages, boards
Interface and application programming: languages, device, data and user interfaces, graphics, multimedia
Final Presentation

Assessment Elements

Participation in Workshops 1
Project
Participation in Workshops 2

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (2 semester)
0.2 * Participation in Workshops 1 + 0.2 * Participation in Workshops 2 + 0.6 * Project

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Brooks, F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month : Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (Vol. Anniversary ed). Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Professional. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1545773
Bryson, J. R., Clark, J., & Mulhall, R. (2017). Beyond the Post-Industrial City? The Third Industrial Revolution, Digital Manufacturing and the Transformation of Homes into Miniature Factories. Germany, Europe: punctum books. https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0176.1.00
Büching, C., & Walter-Herrmann, J. (2013). FabLab : Of Machines, Makers and Inventors. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=863323
Gershenfeld, N. A. (2007). Fab : The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop——from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication. New York: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=584023
Haverbeke, M. (2019). Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition : A Modern Introduction to Programming (Vol. Third edition). San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1739634
Morey, S., & Tinnell, J. (2017). Augmented Reality : Innovative Perspectives Across Art, Industry, and Academia (Vol. First edition). Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, LLC. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2103680
Safety culture in digital fabrication:professional, social, and environmental responsibilities. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.991CD4D2
Scherz, P. (2000). Practical Electronics for Inventors. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=65940
Shiffman, D. (2015). Learning Processing : A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (Vol. Second edition). Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=485992
Zizka, T. (2015). 3D Modeling. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Cherry Lake Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=989837

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Caneparo, L., Winkless, C., & Cerrato, A. (2013). Digital Fabrication in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Dordrecht: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=647380
Capturing prototype progress in digital fabrication education. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D8C7DF11
Digital fabrication in promoting student engagement and motivation in university courses. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.867386D2
Tavs Jorgensen. (2019). Tools for Tooling: Digital Fabrication Technology as the Innovation Enabler. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.332007B9
Warfel, T. (2011). Prototyping : A Practitioner’s Guide. Sebastopol: Rosenfeld Media. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=516053

Course Syllabus