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Tutorials

The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each tutorial, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.

The course meets for one four-hour studio block a week, on a single afternoon. Most weeks open with an hour of lecture before the room turns into hands-on tutorial time for the rest of the block; crit and clinic weeks run hands-on throughout, with no separate lecture. Each card below is that week's actual runsheet — what to bring, what happens in the room, and what you leave with.

Orientation

Week 1's studio — meeting your pair, the toolchain, and the round-trip thesis

Week 1 · 22 February 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Projection mapping studio

Hands-on time turning the lecture's technique onto your own scanned object

Week 2 · 1 March 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Creative coding studio

Building a p5.js sketch by hand — the art half's on-ramp, the programming half's chance to probe the library's limits

Week 3 · 8 March 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Studio Brief 1 crit

Work combining digitizing and Programming I meets an audience for the first time

Week 4 · 15 March 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Actuator studio

Wiring a motor, servo, LED or speaker to your board and closing the loop with last week's sensor

Week 5 · 22 March 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Bridging studio

Getting serial data off the board and into the creative-coding or digitizing pipeline before the break

Week 6 · 29 March 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Studio Brief 2 crit

The first session back from the break — work combining everything up to the bridging week meets an audience

Week 7 · 12 April 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Rule system studio

Extending a small rule system or game-loop with one interaction of your own

Week 8 · 19 April 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Final Planning & Ideation crit

Pitching the final project's theme and technique combination before you build it

Week 9 · 26 April 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Fabrication studio

Supervised 3D printing and laser cutting — closing the loop from digital back to physical

Week 10 · 3 May 2027 · Lecture + tutorial

Clinic week

Two parallel tracks — a code clinic and a make clinic — the last studio time before the final

Week 11 · 10 May 2027 · Tutorial only

Final crit / grand show

Final projects presented to the whole studio and any guests

Week 12 · 17 May 2027 · Tutorial only