Projects

The details and deliverables for each of the assignments can be found on the Assignments page.

Assignment 1: Design of Representation (create a representational system that communicates information)

Examples of student projects for Assignment 1: Design of Representation are viewable through the MIT Center for Arts, Science, and Technology (CAST) blog.

Assignment 2: Design of Fabrication (make something that helps you make something)

Examples of student projects for Assignment 2: Design of Fabrication are viewable through the MIT Center for Arts, Science, and Technology (CAST) blog.

Assignment 3: Design of Play (design a game that abstracts a global issue)

Below are image galleries of student projects for Assignment 3: Design of Play.

 

Pigs in a Blanket

Courtesy of Filip Goc, Emerald Ferreira-Yang, and MIT student. Used with permission.

Game summary: A team of two catapults a group of four pigs while the other team of two tries to catch them in a blanket.

A cast pig wrapped in a blanket. Illustrations demonstrating game play. Student about to release catapult with a cast pig. One student at catapult and two students holding a blanket. Two halves of blue foam molds. Student pouring liquid into cube mold. Large white pig with noticeable edges, and a smaller tan pig on a table. Student with wooden catapult and power tools.

 

Monster Makers

Courtesy of Jennifer Saura and MIT students. Used with permission.

Game summary: Four players create monsters from picking sets of monster body parts, and compete to see which monster survives the longest based on the unique combinations.

Screen with instructions for game and placeholders for head, torso, legs, and feet. Screen with head choices and no selection made. Screen with alligator head, chameleon torso, jellyfish legs, and frog feet. Results screen with all four monsters.

 

Equilibrium

Courtesy of Hunter Guarino, Toshiro Ihara, and MIT student. Used with permission.

Game summary: Players try to balance on the wooden platform.

Wooden board on a CNC router. Wooden board on a CNC router. Clamps holding together layers of wood. Two people standing and balancing on a wooden platform with hexagonal holes.

 

Marble Master

Courtesy of Vivian Dien and MIT students. Used with permission.

Game summary: Players take turns removing sticks held in a rack in order to guide marbles down to their respective pots for scoring.

Two people staring at a rack with wooden sticks and marbles on top. Marbles in the rack that have traveled halfway down. Hands on both sides of the a plexiglass rack to remove sticks. Marbles divided among different metal containers.

 

Poesis

Courtesy of Carlos David Gonzalez Uribe, Karen Hao, Philippa Mothersill, and MIT student. Used with permission.

Game summary: Players take turns adding words to form a poem and score points based on use of rhymes and figurative language.

Printed text on an instructional card included with the game. Stylized text and decal on the cover of the board game. A player trying to organize a series of words on a piece of paper. Spaces and slots being cut on a machine bed. Words being etched on a wooden sheet. Two people holding wooden tiles in their hands in front of a black and white board. Bag of word tiles and rack for tiles being taken out of the box. Wooden word tiles spread out on the table with a completed poem.