Interdisciplinary Experimentation Open Laboratory

Code:

LAEI1

Acronym:

LAEI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Humanities

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S (of 10-02-2020 to 25-05-2020)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Interdisciplinary Experimentation Open Laboratory

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
INOVPED	9	Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The Interdisciplinary Experimentation Open Laboratory (LAEI) is an innovative pedagogical curricular unit (InovPed Program), proposed by teaching and non-teaching staff of the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering, UP Digital University and TVU.

It seeks to develop basic skills and added value in the creation of digital experiences. Through theoretical exposition and an exercise of experimentation, in the field of digital contents production or related with technologies for innovative digital contents, creativity and project management, each student will be able to share and apply the concepts and contents learned within his/her own scientific area.

For whom?

All U.Porto students and external trainees from 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd cycle programs and other postgraduate and continuing/open training courses or units.

LAEI will be interesting for the most advanced students and those capable of collaborative cross-sectional work (from the 3^rd year of a 1^st cycle or integrated M.Sc. degree) within fields such as:

• Cultural / Artistic: students of History, Visual Culture, Heritage Management, Museology, Arts, Fine Arts, Design, Arquitecture, Creative Industries and related fields.
• Communication / Information: students of Communication Sciences, Information Science and related fields.
• Technological: students of Multimedia and Digital Media, Informatics and Computing, Computer Science, Electrical and Computers Engineering and related fields.

Location: Universidade Digital – Inovação Pedagógica - Praça Coronel Pacheco, 15 - Porto

Hours: Monday from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Period of lecturing: 2^nd semester

Goals:

It is intended to develop the following professional / investigative attitudes, skills and abilities:

1. autonomy and initiative in the acquisition and integration of knowledge in content production, technology mediation and science / heritage communication;
2. ability to structure and produce content with communicational effectiveness and appropriate to the target audience (s);
3. ability to conceive, design and implement innovative products, services and processes, based on emerging technologies.
4. ability to manage interdisciplinary collaborative projects and teamwork.
5. ability to integrate into multidisciplinary teams, to focus on a specific language and practices and to develop a common language.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that students:

• know how to plan, implement and validate a part of an innovative digital experience;
• be able to identify their disciplinary input into a high-level project related with the production of digital experiences, for example in the cultural area;
• acquire basic skills in the field of tools creation and / or the production of innovative digital experiences;
• identify added value in creating an innovative digital experience.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

Program

1 - Cultural and Scientific Heritage

• Heritage: natural, documentary, iconographic, edified, archaeological, rural, maritime, industrial, scientific
• Identification, inventory, disclosure, preservation and fruition
• Identity, memory creation and mediation
• Cultural and Heritage Management

 2 - Construction of narratives and interaction

• Creation on digital media
• Communication process
• Basic design / production process
• Argument and forms of writing for multimedia
• Documentary or literary script, storyboard, technical script
• Organization and optimization of content

 3 - Culture and Science Communication and New Media

• Cultural Heritage and storytelling
  • Visual culture and sources: identification, analysis, interpretation and criticism
  • The object, image and moving image: construction of synchronic narratives and diachronic narratives in visual culture
  • Models: potentialities and limits in the communication of cultural heritage and visual culture
• Science and scientific heritage: Open Science and Sciencetelling

 4 - Technologies to produce digital content

• Internet technologies
• Accessibility, usability and design
• Production of Multimedia Content and Web Applications

 5 - Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Project development and management

 

Mandatory literature

Cameron, Fiona 340; Theorizing digital cultural heritage. ISBN: 978-0-262-51411-8
Silva, Armando Barreiros Malheiro da; Paradigmas serviços e mediações em ciência da informação. ISBN: 978-8560323-33-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes - U.OpenLab – directed to:

• the practical component of problem / real need solving and experimentation - a product, service or project;
• teamwork and project management process.

This exercise of experimentation goes through the entire classes period and aims at sharing and applying the concepts and contents learned in the UC and in the scientific area of origin of the students.

keywords

Humanities > History
Technological sciences > Technology
Social sciences > Communication sciences
Humanities > Arts
Humanities > Information science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho laboratorial	56,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the Assessment Regulations in force

Calculation formula of final grade

Mandatory practical work / project (PW), including a written report (PW1), an oral presentation (PW2) and class attendance (CA)

60%PW (70%PW1 + 30%PW2) + 40%CA

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

According to the Assessment Regulations in force

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the Assessment Regulations in force

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force

Observations

The assessment requires all specified components (practical works).