By the beginning of week 4, On the Go had simplified the physical build of our transparent writing wall to the point it was just that – clear glass panels, mounted for writing, with markers provided to participants that could either be returned or taken home.
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Day 15: This week’s objects
Week Three, pin & present day, and we’re well on our way with the Morehouse challenge.
WALL Our On The Go glass, though transparent, is fundamentally a wall. Now I didn’t list Wall during week two, but thinking in hindsight our “View Tube” also made use of Wall as object…any kind of limiting surface that partially obscures sight or motion can also act as a structure ...
Day 14: Letting go of technology
By the end of our third Lab week, On the Go had envisioned and discarded a number of tech-heavy ideas for innovating our both-sides-of-the-glass design. Material lists were due, and we were already wrestling with the challenge of transporting and mounting plexiglas of any kind. Here’s the body count of rejected ideas:
Television screens
...Day 12-13: On different sides of the glass
On the Go has an idea, and we play it out with available materials. The glass ITP classroom door, dry erase markers. Brandin stands on one side of the glass, with me on the other. We begin to simultaneously write our answers to the question, “What stands between you and the world?”
Day 11: “It gets better” vs. “It gets different”
We were asked to engendering a conversation, and realized, we had to have it first…
After the Morehouse design presentation by members of the college administration, our group sat down and let ourselves to talk about race. I say “let” because that’s what it felt like. During earlier challenges, group members had used their racial and ...
Day 10: This week’s objects
Week Two, an object redux. Fewer projects, but richer more multi-layered solutions. So I’m seeing less repetition of specific themes that we did in the first week. I’ll cheat a bit by connecting objects used in Week 2 with related objects used in week one.
PHOTO BOOTH – vote for the NYPL exhibition and get a souvenir!
PIXELS – vote for a story type with a red ...
Days 9-10: Connection convection
HiFi/LoFi had strong collaborative energy during the final two production days for the NYPL challenge. We’d all been eager to build more fully in our first longer challenge, and quickly sorted ourselves into varied roles. Our unusually smooth process was made possible from the goal mapping we’d done with Brett Renfer the day before.
Our exhibition design took library documents through what I almost think of ...
Day 8: Library of Chosen Treasures – Choice is Not Enough
The New York Public Library’s design challenge was our most specific yet – interior space (Gottesman Exhibition Hall), time duration (semi-permanent…may last a decade), constraint (objects need conservational care), and even narrative ...
Day 7: The View Tube, a Radiolab playground
As the Small Fry group – hey, we have Small in our name! – we thought about Big and Little as a playground where children’s perception could be funneled, distorted, crafted, and empowered with a series of windows, mirrors, lenses, periscopes, and kinetic sculptures.
In the video above: An optical illusion that looks like one thing (Batman!) when half the window is opened – but it’s ...
Day 6: Atoms with Radiolab
Maybe the proudest achievement of an atom is to create a physicist, who can look back and say, I know you, and I’m proud of you too.
– Robert Krulwich of Radiolab, on all things great and small
Our Small Fry group looks at Robert’s Big and Little challenge from the perspective of children. Conversations at different heights. The kid’s table vs. the grownup’s table. Making adults ...