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Topic 2 Janky Prototypes

Start a 501 Non-profit organization.

 

1. Toy Drive with Swastika sign

 

 

2.Having World Leader embracing the swastika sign

 

3. Running Campaign of fighting against hate with the swastika sign

 

Topic 2 – Janky Prototypes

Having some difficulty visualizing the scansion in a non-digital way.

Janky Prototype

  • rhythmic beauty evaluator
    • reading the poetry with a microphone, the vibrations will deliver through the string and control the pen to draw a line on a row of paper
    • the smoothness of the line display and evaluates the rhythmic beauty of the poetry.

  • poetry printer
    • Insert a poetry style, choose a relater topic, the printer will generate a poetry for you

  • “poet set”
    • “put on the poet suit and equipe all the parts, you will be treated as a poet”
    • A folding fan, a wine gourd, a mandarin(officals’ hat), a  jade pendant, and a fake beard

 

Topic 2 Janky Prototypes

Prototype-1: Mp3 Wallpaper

Song: Stan by Eminem, Dido

Prompt: Eminem, Dido, Stan

Prototype-2: 3D model tile texture

Prompt: dragon, tiger, china, traditional,–tile

Prototype-3: Artwork

IAE Reading Response

  • At some point this week, look around you and produce a drawing (or take a picture) of a space that you feel is rich in arrangements. In a style similar to the diagram on page 33, annotate your picture or drawing with the “hard” and “soft” arrangements you can identify.
5th Floor Female restroom of NYUSH
  • Map an aspect of your topic to the Ideas/Arrangements/Effects framework. For instance, if you were working with zoos: an idea is that animals should be able to be observed at will by humans; an arrangement is a cage at the zoo; an effect is that animals often become distressed. Since arrangements are “a rich and frequently overlooked terrain for creating change” (32): can you identify a way you could change your identified arrangement, and how that might reflect a different idea, or have a different effect?

 

Topic: The practicability of premises QR code and individual QR code arrangement

  • Ideas: The QR health code, used as the only fundamental tool for national infectious disease control, should be able to forecast risk or at least has time effectiveness.
  • Arrangements:
    1/ By requirement, every place of business and public indoor space has its own QR code for customers to scan
    2/ Citizens has individual health QR code for different provinces.
    3/ Each province manages the QR health code differently. (Through different local departments and QR codes being deployed on various platforms)
    4/ By requirement, every citizen has to scan the business QR code in order to enter an indoor space or travel to other cities. As a result, anyone’s geographical change and information will be recorded in individual’s database which is controlled and monitored by the national CDC
    5/ 3 colors of code have been universally practiced. Green means the individual is clean; yellow means there is a potential for close contact with the positive case; red means the individual has contacted with a positive case and potentially is a positive case. The practice of health code intensely controls citizens’ mobility.
  • Effects:
    1/The practice of health code intensely controls citizens’ mobility.
    2/The action of scanning the business QR code at some place is loosely practiced because business owners need to hire extra to “guard” the business from its customers, which also has counter effects hurting the business itself.
    3/Time lag created by procedural inspection which causes questionable effectiveness for the whole process
    4/Internet fury duo to inconveniences caused to citizens in all aspects of their lives
    5/Government losing credibility to its citizens
  • Change:
    It would not be possible for me to give one alternative, otherwise, I would be a scientist leading the national CDC department. However, I’m inspired by the IAE practice done for the public restroom and I think it makes a perfect metaphor for the health code system the Chinese government is trying to fabricate.Imagine the application of the health code as an action we take when we go to the public restroom. Ideally, we will assign ourselves to different pits and use them. The pit of course has been used by many ahead of us. We use it and leave something behind that if later, can prove our visits. There are also counters, aside from the toilets, which people use constantly as an informal place for socializing and small talk. The stool is the date, the pit is the QR app that stores our data. When something went south, the data scientist checks the data and distinguishes the one causing trouble. However, before the data arrives, it has been sitting for a period of time. So scientists could not distinguish which one might be correlated so they track everyone who has been to the pit, and quarantined until they prove the negativity. However, don’t forget the counter area, which people use without leaving a trace. The walls between public pits are like our masks, which helps but does not necessarily mean we are not sharing the same space. So they escape, their data escape. They are the user who doesn’t scan the code, they are also the people who come into the restroom without using the pit.

 

Topic 2 – IAE Map

Map an aspect of your topic to the Ideas/Arrangements/Effects framework:

IDEA:

The subject of history and what is taught in schools comes from a very specific lens, often discounting or altogether removing the stories, experiences, and accounts of other peoples and populations. History is often revised to benefit one side of the story, further bolster a motive, or support a particular point/initiative.

ARRANGEMENTS:

“Good vs. Bad” – when sharing a narrative, it is often always from the viewpoint of one/one collective body. History recounts events that led to the formation and norms of society, but all include inherently flawed people. Yet, we still project a “good guy” / “bad guy”  lens when recounting these stories. I’m sure if seen from the opposite side, the flipped view/roles would be true. We are all the main characters in our own stories, and how we process, experience, and are affected by events has ripples in how we show up in the world and further perpetuate these concepts in society.

EFFECTS:

Uneven power dynamics, Marginalized peoples/cultures, racism, xenophobia, homogenization, gender inequity, unequal rights

 

Can you identify a way you could change your identified arrangement and how that might reflect a different idea or have a different effect?

More equitable arrangements would produce more equitable results. Having a scale of power creates a sense of entitlement and dominance. There is always more than one side to every story, beyond a singular cause and effect.

Topic 2 – Janky Prototypes

  • Prototype 1:

This is the note I wrote in class. MP3 player was the one I chose. In the sketch I made in class, I used the MP3 player as the instructor for the game. The game was suppose to be like monopoly or snakes and ladder, two or more players take turns to move on the map. Now instead of rolling a dice to determent the movements, the MP3 player will tell the speakers how to move and what to do. This simulates the process of facilitated activity, in which the game was fully controlled by the facilitator.

  • Prototype 2:

This is a board game I designed based on the rules of chess. I use numbered pieces from another board game to be the pieces in this “number chess” game. Different numbers have different abilities and ways to move. Unlike chess, the pieces are placed randomly on the board. There are no set rules for this chess, game, players have to come up with their own rules to play this game. This game simulates a learning situation without or lack of facilitation. Students have to self-regulate and learn things within the student learning group.

 

  • Prototype 3:

            

This is a small choosing book I made. Base on the answers to the questions, you can get different results. This prototype aims to simulate how computer programs make decisions. Different from human, which can generate countless questions and answers, a computer can only response to certain preprogrammed answers. This shows the limitation of not having a human teacher in the class.