Light Sculptures (G9) Fall 2025

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    Creating your First Presentation

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    Creating your First Presentation

    In this video, we will be talking about creating your very first presentation. We will go over basic navigation to a new presentation, creating new content and finally going over the tools available.  


    Create new Presentation, give it a title, then click on the Editor button. This will open up the Slide Editor. There are 3 main sections to the Slide Editor. The Left, Top and Right menus. On the left, we have all of the info about slides and preview images for them. On the Top, there are a variety of content creating buttons and other menus we can bring up. On the Right, if we had any content selected or menu pulled up, we would have the info panel. We'll talk about that more later.


    Let's start by adding some content. Let's add a piece of text. Head to the top bar and hover over the icons, eventually you'll see one called "Text". Click it to create some text. On the right side, we can now see the info panel appearing. Use this panel to change Alignment, Color, Font Size and much more. 

    Creating your First Post

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    Creating your First Post

    In this video, we will be talking about creating your very first post. This video talks about basic movement around the website, navigation to a studio and creating content on the website. After this post, consider checking out other videos such as Making the Most Out of Your Posts to get a more advanced look into the editor.

    Logging on to the platform for the first time

    Joselyn McDonald

    When you are logging into the platform for the first time (and don't know or haven't been given your password), you have two options: 

    1. Use Google login (anyone can use, regardless of whether you have a Google email or not)

    2. Use the password reset option. 

    Both options are detailed below. 

    Option 1: Using Google Authentication to Log In

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    Logging in with Google Authentication 

    1. Head to the top right and click on Log In
    2. Click on Log in with Google Authentication and you'll be brought to the Google Log in page
    3. Choose an account that is registered on our website. This should be your school email or whatever email you signed up to our site with. If you use an email that is not registered in our system, you will encounter an error.


    Option 2: Using Password

    STEP 1: In the top-right corner, click the word "login." 

    STEP 2: When the black menu appears, enter your email address, and then enter the password provided


    Pattern-Making on Rhino

    Dina Chehab

    Pattern-making

    On Rhino


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    Introduction To Arduino

    Dina Chehab

    ؜Arduino

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    Prompt

    This activity introduces the basics of working with Arduino and lights. You’ll learn how to connect and program simple circuits to create interactive lighting effects for your project.

    Deliverables

    Practice and develop your skills by building a small Arduino-powered light circuit. 

    Sora Light

    Kate James

    UK-based design duo Fung + Bedford drew on the Japanese art of origami in the design of this statement light for Danish brand Frandsen.

    The Sora pendant light has a horizontal form suspended from two cords and flanked by wing-like protrusions, which make it appear to hover in mid-air.

    https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/04/sora-light-fung-bedford-frandsen-dezeen-showroom/

    Isamu Noguchi's sculptural Akari lamps

    Dina Chehab

    Inspired, he began creating the lamps, for which the designer came up with a new name: Akari. "The name Akari, which I coined, means in Japanese 'light as illumination'", Noguchi said, according to Masayo Duus' book The Life of Isamu Noguchi.

    "It also suggests lightness as opposed to weight," he added. "The ideograph combines that of the sun and the moon. The quality is poetic, ephemeral, and tentative."

    https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/14/isamu-noguchis-akari-lamps-ephemeral-mid-century-modern/

    Shrumen Lumen

    Dina Chehab

    A garden of five origami mushrooms with caps that expand and contract from a flat umbrella portobello to a bulbous cap when visitors activate them, creating a surprising and delightful experience.

    Each mushroom is made of 18 sheets of corrugated plastic, a total of 83 square meters, hand-folded and carefully welded together. A solid mechanical structure made of aluminum and steel defines the shape of the mushroom head. An umbrella-like mechanism powered by an industrial actuator causes the cap to change shape. Pressure pads, located at the base of the mushroom, activate the movement, and at night, over 1,600 LED lights create a spectacle for those near and far. Nearly every one of the hundreds of parts for each mushroom were custom made by the FoldHaus team.

    https://www.foldhaus.com/shrumen-lumen