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 20: Impressions of The Big Day
I want to thank the amazing Innovation lab inventors and organizers Nancy and Lilly, the inspiring studio leaders and ITP anchors and the great Innovation lab group I had the honor of working with. I enjoyed this month of idea creation, brainstorming, building and critiquing a lot.
Here are some impressions of our final big day:
Check our Shamraiz’s video capture of our “2 or more” installation: ...
Day 19: User Experience for 3D
It’s Thursday night, 8pm, and our leaders Lillian and Nancy are coming into our studio to get a first impression of what we plan to present the next day. The revelation: It takes a big focus on user experience and visitors’ flow to make people understand a prototypical exhibition:
- Most likely it makes sense to do a presentation BEFORE you have people visit your prototype. Otherwise ...
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 16: Guest speaker Toby Boudreaux from Control Group
Toby Boudreaux, partner and chief technology officer at Control Group and his colleague Jaz gave an amazing talk about generating identities in the urban and public space. The talk was based on hardcore tech stuff but focused on the user and human identities which gave the whole thing a pretty fascinating perspective.
...The almost all nighter (I think)
Start Of Construction
During your childhood, what was the one plaything we all had?…(come on you know the answer) A BOX. That box was everything. It was a fort, a car, a house, a rocket ship, a secret club house, it’s the one thing that kids are happy with and doesn’t need fancy flashy color or gadgets to catch interest. Playing with it was all about the imagination and ...
The Plan
This is the plan…or the tentative plan of what we hope to accomplish….Important side note:- The little boy in the bottom left hand corner has become our mascot. That drawing helped us to solidify and keep in mind what we want to portray in our exhibit. He ...