###### Interventions Design Conference | June 2019 | Presenter with Sofie Hodara

Chicken Soup for the Pissed-Off Designer: Using Design to Cope with American Politics

Join Martha Rettig and Sofie Hodara, Massachusetts College of Art and Design professors, for a talk about how they use design thinking to cope with their panic and hopelessness surrounding American politics. Find out how they use history, humor, and augmented reality to move forward when we are all exhausted. The Pursuit of Happiness art exhibition features over 70 letter-pressed presidential campaign slogans dating back almost 200 years and brings to life the often-preposterous words of our American political leaders. 

Interventions: Narrative is Scout’s second annual design conference at Northeastern University. We bring together designers and creative thinkers to explore how we create, own, and maintain narratives in our work that have inevitable effects on society. From pushing the boundaries of traditional mediums to using design to advocate for women in STEM – everyone in attendance will walk away with new perspectives on the role they play as an influential storyteller and activist through design.

## [Presentation Deck](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18qe07F_TMh3JpvehPIBUriapdqGQL-Qc/view?usp=sharing)

## [2019.interventions.design/](https://2019.interventions.design/)

## [Schedule](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18qe07F_TMh3JpvehPIBUriapdqGQL-Qc/view?usp=sharing)

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Chicken Soup for the Pissed-Off Designer: Using Design to Cope with American Politics

###### IXDA Education Design Summit 2020  |  Milan, Italy  |  Workshop

In 2018 Martha Rettig and Sofie Hodara, began bringing augmented reality into their respective classrooms and personal design practices. As two educators at a public college, it was difficult to find tools for prototyping and publishing that weren’t reliant on programming skills, expensive platforms, and fancy hardware. And, when they actually published these experiences, they were confronted with similar barriers to entry. Working in augmented and virtual reality reminded us of working in the wild west of web design in the early 2000s: non-standardized workflows, tools, and platforms for designers.

Eager to bring this technology to their students and frustrated by limited options, they developed a rapid-prototyping tool that requires only a browser and smartphone. In 2019, after a year of development, Martha published an open-sourced platform: CabinAR. Since then it has been used at many colleges and conferences around the world.

Many workshop participants have taken CabinAR back to their highschool and college classrooms. Putting CabinAR into the hands of as many creators as possible, gives designers equal access to explore and develop knowledge in this space. Students don’t need access to expensive platforms and equipment to begin to develop the principles and standards for augmented reality experiences. CabinAR creates a hands-on learning environment, where designers and students alike can learn from observation through rapid prototyping and human testing.

This hands-on workshop is for anyone interested in creating augmented reality experiences with motion and interaction but doesn’t know how to get started. In only a few hours participants will be building in augmented reality using an open-source platform, a browser, and smartphone – no technically-opaque and cost-prohibitive technology – that they can easily bring back to any studio or classroom. Each participant will create their own live augmented reality experience that they can share with colleagues, students, and other conference participants.

We would be delighted to share it with the participants of the “Education Design Interaction Summit.”


## [Presentation Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16X3skYpt3UHxeF0mDrjCYCQWx8SzHNkwAd2ImquomB0/edit?usp=sharing)

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Augmented Reality For The Classroom

###### Augment My Type Workshop |  Martha Rettig + Sofie Hodara
###### June 2019 Typographics Conference & October 2019 Cooper Union

In this one-day workshop, students learn the basics of augmented reality and about the variety of tools available for playing with images and text in AR. Through a series of lectures and hands-on projects, participants create an augmented type installation around Cooper Union. This workshop is great for designers, art directors, and type enthusiasts of all levels (no AfterEffects or coding experience necessary) who want to explore when and how to augment type. Designers will leave with a solid understanding of how to bring AR into their practice and some fun new skill in their typographic toolkit!

## [Typographics Conference WorkShop](https://2019.typographics.com/workshops/#augment-my-type)

## [Cooper Union Workshop](http://coopertype.org/event/augment_my_type-2)


Martha Rettig

Associate Professor

Massachusetts College of Art + Design

Augment My Type

Augment My Type Workshop | Martha Rettig + Sofie Hodara

June 2019 Typographics Conference & October 2019 Cooper Union

Typographics Conference WorkShop

Cooper Union Workshop