Independent Study for Week 3

• Install Spore Creature Creator on your own computers, and sign-up to the Spore Website. The installation files can in the samples folder for this course.
  

• Create a Blog for Representation Studio at www.blogger.com. Use your name and the Course Code ARCH1390 to title your blog. E.g: yournameARCH1390-2009.blogspot.com
  


• Create 5 Creatures using Spore Creature Creator, giving them names and detailed descriptions, thinking about their personalities, the environments they live in, their habits and habitats. Post your creatures to the Spore Website.

• Be sure to think carefully about where and how the creatures live, as you will be developing your creatures habitats in the coming weeks.
  


• Take image captures, and animations of the creatures interacting with their environment.


• Upload the creature .png file from "My Documents\My Spore Creations\Creatures" 2 images and 1 video (no longer than 10 seconds) for each creature to your blog, including the Creature Descriptions. (Total output 5 png images, 10 image captures and 5 videos).

• Read the reading from the Courses on the Web page for this course, Originalty of the Avante Garde by Rosalind Krauss


• Bring a sketch book, and some type of sketching implement to the next studio, and each successive studio.

Week 2 (first week of class) Studio Tasks

To be completed during Week 1 Studio

• Install and Play with Spore Creature Creator, getting a feel for the interface, you can use the help menu to learn some slightly more advanced techniques.
  


• Each student should create 5 creatures with names and descriptions during Studio. Collaborate with your fellow students to discover tools and techniques in using Spore Creature Creator.
  


• You will find this extremely easy and fun, the difficult bit will be testing your imagination and seeing how creative you can be with the tools available to you.

• Be sure to consider the viability of your creatures, how do they move, what type of creature is it, and how/where does it live and interact with its environment.
  

• Install Spore Creature Creator on your own laptop

• If you use the provided laptops, be sure to save your creatures from "My Documents\My Spore Creations\Creatures" so you can load them onto your own computers and continue with the for your independent study for Week 3.

• Choose 3 Student Representatives for the class, one from each tutorial group.
  


• Begin Independent Study for Week 3
  

Course Resources

All Resources for this course can be found on this blog and on Courses on the Web at:
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/courses/ARCH/1390/

Extra resources, including lecturesm large files, applications and tutorials can be found at:
\\emustore\Resources\samples\Arch\ARCH1390 Representation Studio - Harkins

You can "ftp" to emustore at:
ftp://emustore.fbe.unsw.edu.au
...then follow the path to the course folder.

You will need your FBE logon to access Courses on the Web and emustore.

Welcome to ARCH1390 - Digital Representation Studio 2009

Welcome to the first of 3 Digital Studio's for stage one Architectural Computing students - Digital Representation Studio.

The main ideas running through this studio will be dissecting design representation, re-displaying traditional presentation methods, combining digital media with physical media, creating new representational techniques and having some fun with cutting edge technologies.

Use the right hand menu bar to navigate between other tutorial groups and Student Blogs.

Check this page regularly for course information.

Jeremy Harkins
Course Convener