Firaz Peer
As a PhD student in Digital Media, Firaz examines the ways in which technologies and information artifacts construct, and are in turn constructed by the communities they are intended to serve. As part of his research, he also conducts design workshops with community members that allow them to link their specific interests to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement.
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- paper and cloth as the main resources, together with simple
circuits elements such as LED’s, batteries and magnets. We
document our process of designing puppet-building workshops
that include STEM education criteria. We collaborated with the
Center for Puppetry Arts to design these workshops in such a way
that part of the making will include basic electronic input and
output components. We aim to open this tradition up for larger
audiences to enhance hardware CS education in STEM fields.