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 ...
how I got to see it all
Instagram became my best friend for the last week of ITPInnovationLab because I couldn’t walk around the floor to see what everyone was doing…it was like I was addicted, I couldn’t wait to see what was going to be posted next.
It’s awesome and inspiring to see ...
Day 18: Media Collection Confederate Flag
Our media walls will enable visitors to experience how stories about identity, race, policing and community are presented in the news, layered with personal stories by current and former Morehouse students.
For our prototype we chose the topic “Confederate Flag”. Further media wall topics would be “Traffic stops”, “Malcolm X”, “Trayvon Martin”, “Baltimore” and others.
...Day 17: Found again: Conversations
Yes! We managed to find our way back to the topic of conversations. Many discussions and confused/confusing dialogues later we de-cluttered our initial ideas, separated them into digestible and related components and started production for each component.
...Day 15: A Quick Re-Cap of Sad Incidents
For anyone from abroad here a short collection of some of the most tragic incidents:
=> July 2014: Eric Garner died after being put in a chokehold by the police on the sidewalk outside a shop in Staten Island/NY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
=> November 2014: Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun in a park in Cleveland, was shot dead by a police officer.
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Day 14: Lost: Conversations
On Thursday something strange happened at our interim project presentation: Somehow our initial main components got lost. That led to a confused audience and – as far as I can tell – a team of unsatisfied “2 or more” group members.
As mentioned before, our initial components consisted of:
- Conversations
- A path or guidance (a metaphor for time)
- An unfinished “thing” you can add to in the end
Our ...