Summer institutes focused on interaction with, interpreting, and influencing the world—through sensors, movement, immersive experiences, connected and networked objects, storytelling, and conversation—with each other, objects, spaces, and machines.
Join us for a summer of skill-building workshops (beginner to advanced), collaborative creation, show-and-tell demos, data walks, ideation sessions, field research, prototyping, and advanced institutes in AI, including critical dialogue on impact, trends, policies, and applications.
Interspersed with mentored lab time for experimentation, project creation, and intensive collaborative creation sessions culminating in a November exhibition.
Who/what is this for
For skill-building, reskilling, upskilling, and career transformation to build expertise and fluency in emerging technology. For anybody who wants to create with imagination and impact: professionals, researchers , educators, students, and community—including artists, designers, ecologists, scientists, futurists, policymakers, data scientists, researchers, technologists, engineers, beginners, experts, and innovators.
July–September 2025
Schedule
Creating interactive objects and experiences: Intro to Arduino
Intro to Soldering: Build your own Punk Synth Console
Introduction to TouchDesigner for Multimedia Creation
TouchDesigner Study Group
3D Scanning Medley 1: Scanning Objects for Spatial Creation and Archiving
Augmented Reality Stories and Tours with the Trace App
3D Design Gathering: An Introduction to Computer-aided Design on the Web
Create Mesmerizing AR Dioramas with Images and Photographs
Creating Environmental Soundscapes: A Citizen Science/Datawalking Project
TouchDesigner: Interaction
Augmenting the World With Light: An Introduction to Projection Mapping
Creating Advanced Projection Mapped AR Installations
Partial Signals: A Computer Music Gathering
Creating Panoramic and Cinematic Experiences with a 360 Camera
A Smorgasbord of Sensors and Microcontrollers
Microcontrollers: Exciting and Impactful Projects
Fabricating Onto Fabric: 3D Printing on Cloth
E-textile Explorations: Projects and Experiments
How to Make Your Installation Indestructible: From Prototype to Reality
PCB Design 1: From Zero to Gerbers
PCB Design 2: Intermediate KICAD and PCBs
AI Institute: Thinking with Machines
