For three consecutive years I’ve been working as a Hybrid Teacher at TU/e’s department of Industrial Design, on the subject of Digital Manufacturing within the context of the course ‘Design and Sensorial Form’ by Simone de Waart.
Sensorial Forms represent the language of the designer, the media through which we communicate. Therefore, as with any language, it is crucial that designers understand how this communication takes place and learn and practice the vocabulary to communicate.
Through a series of hands- on design exercises students are experiencing how giving form to an artefact is a continuous dialogue between what you sense through your eyes, ears or skin and what you make – driven by quality, craftsmanship and subtle details.
Through the development of a digital twin the students explore different modalities of their designs and the corresponding scenarios around it virtually, which allowed them to easily explore alternative materials and apply different types of sensory interaction to their artefacts (e.g. movement and sound).
