For Design and Education, we were asked to prepare a testable/playable prototype of an activity based on one of topics/weeks listed in our class syllabus. I chose week 4 from my course, Participation Culture, which was focused on the Situationist International, forms of investigation/research, and Psychogeography.
In brief, my prototype will have students interacting with their surrounding neighborhood in two different ways, one physically and one digitally. After being provided a brief description of the underlying concepts, students will be split into groups and sent into the streets outside the school. Each group will be asked to walk around an entire city block (the direction determined by the group of students), with students detailing the experiences on the materials supplied.
Students will return to the classroom, turn on their computers, and reenact the walk using the street-view of Google maps. Clicking through the street-view frame by frame, students will experience their previous walk in digital form. The exercise will culminate in a group discussion.
Here is a link to the full-writeup:
