Four workshops for children, on the meeting point between design and technology.

In the portrait workshops, children create portraits in different ways. Working in small groups they observe, communicate and create. Each workshop introduces a topic on the meeting point between design and technology - abstraction, animation, colour relationships, and graphic and photographic representation. Around the portrait theme the children, aged 7-13, explore how they see and represent themselves and the people around them.
The workshops employ physical materials like blocks, paper and coloured paints. Technology, in the form of cameras, microphones and computers, augments the activities but remains in the periphery of the experience. From an Interaction Design perspective the workshops explore how the power of technology can be exploited without compromising the pleasure of simple physical interactions, and how aspects of design can be discovered through playful interaction.
The four workshops are:

Drawing a portrait together in a remote creative dialogue.

Building portraits using physical pixels, then animating them to create simple movies.

Making self-portraits using coloured materials, combining handicraft with digital photography.

Tracing each other's potraits with the help of the magical camera oscura.

The Portrait Workshops were designed and curated by Tal Drori, Milena Maccaferri, Michal Rinott with Ivan Gasparini.