课程成果丨有心灵的物品 Things with a Soul
暑假前夕，一组神奇物品在学院二期大厅展出：自带安全预警的自行车，暴躁的闹钟，“不给糖先捣蛋”的糖果罐，叫苦不迭的电脑，害怕蟑螂的扫帚... 这些生活中我们熟悉的日用品，仿佛被注入“灵魂”，都以出人意料的方式“活”了起来。
这是2023-2024学年「开源硬件与编程」课的期末成果展。学院从2014年起便开创性地把开源课作为设计类学生的基础课，希望帮助设计“萌新”们了解技术的原理并动手实践科技创新的过程。
以下是来自课程导师Saverio Silli的介绍。
如果我们日常生活中使用的物品有了自己的情绪、感受和观点，它们会如何看待我们？它们会反对我们的使用方式并做出自己的回应吗？换句话说，如果物品有心灵，会怎样？
What if the products we use in our daily lives had their own emotions, feelings, and opinions? What would they think about us? Could they disagree with the way we use them and make their own decisions? In other words, what if objects had a soul?
我们将2024年“开源硬件与编程”课程期末结课项目的主题定为“有心灵的物品”。拿到这样的命题，同学们面临的首要挑战就是走出舒适区，去迎接一个未知、虚幻且不寻常的挑战所带来的不确定性。课程项目向大家提出的驱动性问题是：
“如何创造出一个电子设备，来展现日常物品的所思所想？”
虽然这个问题乍看不同寻常，但学生们很快意识到，随之而来的还有天马行空的可能性和无限机遇。
"Things with a Soul" was chosen as the theme for the final project in the "Open-source Hardware and Programming" class in 2024. With such a topic, the first challenge for many students was to step out of their comfort zones and embrace the uncertainty of an unknown, unreal, and unusual challenge. The driving question proposed to the class was: “How might we create an electronic device that shows the soul of an everyday object?” While unusual, the students soon realized the infinite possibilities and opportunities for design unfolding before them.
课程预期成果是每组五名学生共同设计并制作一个装置，包括一个Arduino电子原型板和一个集成输入输出系统。最终目标是让用户通过与装置的互动，来感受物品的“心灵”。
The expected outcome was for each group of five students to design and fabricate a device, including an Arduino electronic prototyping board and an integrated system of inputs and outputs. The final goal was for a user to feel the "soul" of the object through interaction with the device.
为了深入理解项目主题并产生有价值设计洞察，我们指导学生（主要是大一新生）进行了一系列简单的设计思维练习。其中，与100名年轻设计师共同开展的一场头脑风暴活动尤为有趣，他们同时围绕“日常物品”和“情绪/感受”这两个主题生成关键词。随后，我们利用收集到的关键词——从“吹风机”到“自行车”，从“快乐”到“失望”——借助人工智能创作故事，每个故事以一件物品和一种情绪为主题。这使得每个小组都能充分发挥想象力，探索生活的方方面面，诞生出例如“一个悲伤的微波炉”这样的故事。于是，为交互式装置构思创意就变成了从众多有趣的想法中挑选最佳方案的过程。
To understand the topic and generate useful insights, the students (mainly in their first year) were guided through simple design thinking exercises. Having a brainstorming session with 100 young designers simultaneously generating keywords about "everyday things" and "emotions/feelings" was quite an interesting experience! Later, with the collected keywords—ranging from "hairdryer" to "bicycle", and from "happiness" to "disappointment"—we used AI to help write a story featuring one of the objects and one of the emotions. This allowed each group to expand their imagination and explore the many aspects in the life of, for example, a Sad Microwave. From this point on, generating ideas for interactive devices became a matter of selecting the most intriguing one.
结果远超我们的预期。从技术角度来看，大多数项目在为期一周的展览中都完好无损，只有少数项目出现了小问题，如按钮脱落、胶水不牢或易碎部件断裂。从可用性、交互有效性和传达“心灵”信息的能力来看，每个项目都展现了一种巧妙且富有想象力的方式，实现了预期效果。
The results exceeded our wildest expectations. From a technical perspective, most of the projects survived the week-long exhibition intact, with only a few experiencing minor issues, such as buttons falling apart, glue not holding, or fragile parts breaking. From the standpoint of usability, interaction effectiveness, and the ability to convey the "soul" message, each project demonstrated a clever and imaginative way to achieve the desired result.
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▴“有心灵的物品” 结课展览现场
我们录制了视频来记录每个设备的功能，并制作出一系列有趣且古怪的短片，其灵感来源于日用品可能表现出的各种情绪和感觉——如果它们有“灵魂”的话。
We recorded videos to document the functionality of each device and eventually decided to create a collection of funny and quirky clips inspired by the multitude of emotions and feelings our everyday objects might display—if they had a soul.
By Saverio Silli
Fablab Shanghai Vice Director
课程导师，Fablab上海副总监
课程简介 About
《开源硬件与编程》课程，是同济大学设计创意学院根据“设计＋技术＋商业”的创新人才培养关键要素而开设的重要课程。课程设计充分考虑了设计类学生的特点，使同学们在学习伊始就能体验技术带来的丰富有趣的成果，帮助学生在创作实践中了解技术的原理并基于对技术的深度理解产生智能产品与系统的创意。
学院从2014年起，便开创性地把开源课作为新生入学后的一门基础课。做作品时快速原型开发、测试和迭代的过程能够帮助大家对纸面之外的设计建立更完整的认知，课程中采用的发现问题、解决问题的授课框架也更贴近完整的设计流程。
供稿丨Saverio Silli
排版丨叶梓欣
编辑丨钰璐
责编丨雪青