John Marshall

SmartSurfaces provides University of Michigan students with an integrative, hands-on learning experience where cross-disciplinary teams design, build,

program, and test interactive surfaces.

It is team taught by professors from different University of Michigan units (Art & Design, Materials Science & Engineering and Architecture).

Design Lab 1

3 Units

3 Professors

24 Students

4 Teams

Phase 1 (skill-building )

For the first six weeks the teams build specific skills in:

• microcontroller programming (Arduino),

• parametric modeling (Digital Project),

• digital fabrication,

• cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Resources.

Julian Bleecker - Nokia Design Strategic Projects & NearFutureLaboratory.com

Eugene Shteyn - Ambature & Stanford University

Michelle Addington - Yale School of Architecture

2009 2009, 2010, 2011 2009

Thorsten Klooster - TASK Architekten Sabrina Raaf – University of Illinois, Chicago David Bruemmer - 5d Robotics

2010

2011 2011

Lots of resources.

Phase 2 (the project)

Each team is required to design, build, program and test an ‘X-SmartSurface’ where “X” is a changing modifier.

“X” = “Heliotropic” (Fall 2009), “Biomimetic” (Fall 2010) and “Off-grid” (Fall 2011).

Each team is responsible for a budget:

($3,000 2009-10 and $2,000 2011).

Fall 2009 Projects

The Shy Solar Array Simon

The iWall Modular Light-Filtration System

Exposure

Fall 2010 Projects

Neural Window Reef Wall of Leaves

Ferro-field Firefly Cloud

Fall 2011 Projects

Lightapus

Open ‘NEST’ Thermostat

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MLTT & SmartSurfaces Comparison

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MLTT & SmartSurfaces Comparison

‘Student Assessment of Learning in Multidisciplinary Learning and Team Teaching (MLTT) Courses’Report of a Survey of Students in Fourteen MLTT-Funded Courses to the MLTT Steering Committee, Ben van der Pluijm, Chair. Prepared by Crisca

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‘Student Assessment of Learning in Multidisciplinary Learning and Team Teaching (MLTT) Courses’Report of a Survey of Students in Fourteen MLTT-Funded Courses to the MLTT Steering Committee, Ben van der Pluijm, Chair. Prepared by Crisca

Bierwert, Kirsten Olds, and James Barber Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). 2 August 2010.

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MLTT & SmartSurfaces Comparison

About John Marshall:– Institution: University of Michigan

– Tel: (734) 615-8062

– Email: johnjm@umich.edu