Sketching with Tangible Objects
As a student at RISD, Matt mocked up things, including electronic things, in sensual materials such as wood. Tellart was founded to capture and apply his experience of sketching with tangible objects. Recently, Matt applied this to a course he taught at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Students experienced interaction design without the use of computers.

Matt printed out pictures of old objects, and directed students to build it with foamcore and other materials. The students were not told the machine’s original purpose, and they had to build it as if it were designed today with a purpose they were free to make up. One team decided the device they were shown was an avatar creation machine. They’d select the characteristics with brightly colored knobs, and people would come out of it dressed and made up in the attributes they selected.

Posted on MAKE by Brian Jepson | Feb 6 - Read his full post on MAKE.