This document discusses the concept of a DIY/DIWO (do it with others) mobile labstudio. It proposes creating a mobile lab that allows users to engage with spaces through visualization and audio experiences. Existing DIY kits lack continuity, are used once or twice and then shelved, and require too much direction. The proposed mobile labstudio would focus on storytelling, demystifying instructions, visualizing data in a playful way, and building a community through packaging, branding, and a website. It would allow users to "make your own equipment, hear the unseen, see the unheard, and engage with a space." A participatory and collaborative design approach is recommended.

1. Chandni Venkataraman

2. Concept
Make a D.I.Y/D.I.W.O (do it with
others) mobile labstudio that
becomes our extended sense
while engaging with a space.

3. HackteriaCERTAD
Pseudo Clients
Designers
ArtScience
BLR
DIY mobile Labstudio

4. What does the
mobile lab do?
DIY lab
studio
Playful
Learning
Sensing
Maker
Space

5. Existing DIY kits
Lacks
continuity
On the
shelf after
1-2 uses
Too
Directive
Needs
Supervision
No
sustained
engagement
Not hands-on
enough

6. Inference
Community
learning
Visualize
data
Demanualling
the manual
Visual
Storytelling

7. DIY mobile Labstudio
Story telling,
Demanualize the
manual
Data visualizing in a
playful manner
Packaging, branding
website and other
collaterals
Building a community

8. Phase I

9. ANET, a very exotic place

10. We did a lot of exploring…

11. There were new experiences…

12. An
extreme
place
is
a
new
environment
that
is
wai3ng
to
be
experienced.
If
under
the
sea
can
seem
like
another
world
contained
within
this
earthly
manifest,
then
all
percep3ons
otherwise
unperceivable
to
our
senses
forms
an
alterna3ve
reality.
What is an Extreme Place?

13. We learnt from each other by working together…

14. Things we did at ANET

15. Introduction to Electronics

16. Rapid Prototyping I & II

17. Looking at Existing DIY Kits

18. Fantastical Kit

19. Manual content

20. DIY mobile
Labstudio
Make you own
equipment
Hear the
unseen
See the
unheard
Engage with a
space
Visualizations
and
audioscapes
Proposal of the Kit

21. Why “Labstudio” ?

22. the lab studio needs to evolve
and needs to be extendable.
The kit must not become obsolete
when the components are all used up
but must be refilled.

23. Plan of action

24. Studio:
Getting more familiar with sensors and electronics.
Coding (arduino?)

25. Research Avenues
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• What constitutes real learning? How does DIY
learning facilitate real learning
• How have creative teachers, artists and scientists
in the past broken disciplinary barriers?
• How can we apply the principles of games design
that will make children engage with DIY labstudio
on a long term basis?
• What are the specific concepts and topics which
lend themselves to this approach of DIY learning
and translate into a practical DIY mobile kit?

26. Approaches and Methods
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• Participatory design approach.
We want to incorporate based on direct
interaction with students, teacher adult and
design fully understanding the needs of the user.
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• Collaborative Design
We as designers, are working in a team in which
we each have unique roles within the project that
contribute to the making of this one product - The
DIY labstudio.