This five-day workshop is open to students from across the AA who are interested in data mapping through sensors and digital fabrication equipment, for use within their unit or programme work or as a short separate project. Workshop participants will operate in small teams, combining digital mapping of contextual data with the design of a process for its physical manifestation. Workshop tutors will introduce participants to Arduino microcontrollers and basic related scripting, allowing to set up a range of sensors and interactive actuators and producing a series of digital models and site-specific fabrications. [Strategy] Each team will work in two fields during the workshop: Field 1 will be the exploration of setting up sensing equipment at various locations within the AA premises to develop site-specific interactive scenarios. Each scenario leads to the collection of data from the site. Field 2 will be related to data interpretation and materialization, extrapolating lists of numbers into digitally manufactured crafts. As data is collected, objects will be produced; the following set of data leads back into the loop being influenced by the previously created objects. The entire process results in an interactive structure that has influenced itself in its own creation. The number of available places for this workshop is limited and students are recommended to apply early. Registration is free but participants are required to be available for the majority of the workshop days. [Tutors] Denis Vlieghe (Dip.Arch - High Dist.; M.Arch Architecture + Urbanism) is a designer, researcher, and tutor. He has worked in Belgium, Japan, and the UK, and has lectured and taught courses and workshops in the AA, the University of Tokyo, TU Munich and TU Innsbruck. Shankara Kothapuram (B.Arch; M.Arch Architecture + Urbanism) is a designer, researcher and social activist who has worked on architectural projects at varying scales in India, Singapore, China and the UK. Apply for this workshop by sending an email to workshop@digitalfabrication.net Click here for a more detailed workshop description.