Summer School Program

Learning by doing

Intensive and hands-on workshops, practice and a lot of fun are on the menu of the week. Every workshop is set up as a ‘learning by doing’ experiment. Our teachers are professionals. All course assistants are affiliated to the product design department at Howest University College.

It’s the Industrial Design Center’s belief that prototyping is a process in which a working model or prototype is developed for the purpose of testing various design aspects like features, ideas, viability, functionality, tactility, output and performance. Prototyping can help streamline creative (design) processes.

The summer school topics:

Variety of prototyping techniques/methods/tools
Usability, tactility and sustainability as the key success factors of industrial design
Teamwork and team communication
The development of a critical & creative attitude towards prototyping
The ability to communicate with prototypes
The understanding of a hands-on prototyping methodology

After the summer school you will have a broad view on prototyping and its many application fields.

Program

	MORNING	AFTERNOON	EVENING
Sunday 28/08/11	Arrivals for international students		17.00 meeting point @ the campsite (Marksesteenweg 58) + pick-up of the bikes
Monday 29/08/11	8.00-9.00 Breakfast	11.30-12.30 Lunch	18.00-19.00 Dinner
Monday 29/08/11	9.00-11.30 Welcome & practical briefing by Becky Verthé, coordinator summer school. Intro ‘design by prototyping’ and roadmap prototyping by Ronald Bastiaens, academic director bachelor Industrial Product Design Preparation of the laptops	12.30 – 18.00 Workshop 1: quick & dirty prototyping by Thomas Valcke, Atohms Innovative Product Design	19.00 City tour
Tuesday 30/08/11	8.00-9.00 Breakfast	12.30-13.00 Lunch	19.00 – 24.00 Dinner Open atelier
Tuesday 30/08/11	9.00 – 12.30 Laser cutting experiments by ProtoLab Low Density Foam Modeling, composites and thermohardners (glass fibres) by Carl Grimmelprez, Hands-on	13.00 – 19.00 Company Visit, Materialise 3D Printing, Leuven	19.00 – 24.00 Dinner Open atelier
Wednesday 31/08/11	9.00-10.00 Breakfast	13.30-14.30 Lunch	18.00 – 19.00 Dinner and open atelier
	10.00 – 13.30 High Density Foam Modeling, from 2D to 3D by Pilipili Product Design Open source CNC machining and 3D makerbots by Timelab	14.30 – 18.00 Finishing, Varnishing and polishing of 3D models by ZiggZagg
		16.00 – 20.00 Plastic shaping processes by Clem NV
Thursday 1/09/2011	8.00-9.00 Breakfast	12.30-13.30 Lunch	18.00 Bbq
Thursday 1/09/2011	9.00 – 12.30 Wood turning by Flemish Guild of Wood Turners low-fi blow molding process by George Fereday (UK), www.georgefereday.com	13.30- 18.00 Wood turning by Flemish Guild of Wood Turners Interface design with Arduino Open Source Electronics by Jelle Saldien, Interaction designer	18.00 Bbq
Friday 2/09/2011	8.00-9.00 Breakfast	12.30 – 13.30 Lunch, drink and distribution of certificates	The end.
Friday 2/09/2011	9.00-12.30 Product photography by Carl Lapeirre Photography Textile techniques by Anita Evenepoel, www.anitaevenepoel.be	13.30 – 19.00 Open atelier, closure of the summer school and entering the keys of the lockers and the bikes!	The end.