Creative Coding and Technological Practice for Art & Design

At hackSpace, we see technology as a playground for creativity. We are interested in exploring the possibilities that electronics and programming offer to the creative practice, and how these explorations can contribute to the evolving landscape where art, design, and technology intersect.

The hackSpace was born out of the creative mind’s need to elaborate interesting solutions to unique situations, interactively, and without the restriction of tangibility. Our goal is to enable the merging of digital and physical mediums, and provide a space for students to prototype and learn about electronics and physical computing.

We celebrate the use of open-source tools and a culture of sharing and collaboration that nurtures experimentation. We also believe that engaging with emerging technologies is relevant to understand the interactive systems that increasingly shape our world, and essential for embracing the creative potential of technological innovation.

Why exploring Creative Technology matters:

• It promotes Thinking-Through-Making-with-tech, offering hands-on experience with interactive technologies, such as sensors and microcontrollers. Rather than seeing technology as a mysterious “black box,” students gain the knowledge and confidence to create with these tools.

• It fosters creativity as a dynamic process. The iterative nature of programming supports a trial-and-error practice, encouraging experimentation, play, adaptability, and risk-taking, key elements to develop problem-solving skills and spark the imagination.

• It opens career opportunities and professional development paths for our graduates by introducing computational thinking in a creative context. It provides knowledge, experience and a common computing language for artists and designers to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams within technological fields. It also builds a foundation for more advanced creative coding tools, such as Unity, Unreal, Three.js, or web-based art/design.