In this week, I am committed to discovering people’s research on interesting public spaces in the past, hoping to find inspiration to create new online spaces suitable for today. I found an article that introduced a prototype of an AI city, designed in 1965, called…

Updated conceptual direction My original project direction was to explore the invisible part of the city and bring it to those who are curious about it. During my exploration this week, I went to two different areas to try to uncover what I thought was…

I think I’ve got some indications that can present people are getting closer, but I didn’t find the trigger，not that intentional. My vision of my own work is an installation that can activate public space. Therefore，I specifically focused on Urban/nonverbal cues/Connection when I document my…

Face Mask Redesign Academic Study: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083 (Fischer et al) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202003155 (Choi et al) My mask redesign imagines using clear plastic rather than fabric or other solid material, so I really wanted an academic study on the efficacy on those. Unfortunately, either because they aren’t used…

In my original post about possible thesis topics I mentioned terrain vague, a term to describe indeterminate spaces that inform and are essential to the urban milieu. Here I ruminate on how we might interact or depict terrain vague in a digital context. médiatique vague…

Moodboard This is a moodboard containing graphic inspirations which in some way connect to the feeling I have when thinking about this project.   Dream review As always exploring new media to give life to his work, Enrique Garcia’s new work is a fresh look…

“George Faya’s exploration of audience/performer dynamics reveals more about us than merely our relationship to art and performance – he seeks to get to the heart of what shared experiences mean to us as humans and social creatures. This becomes especially timely as we slowly…

This past week, I finally made a so-far useful research database on Notion (mostly moving to this platform sorry MURAL but despite my thesis inquiry into data structures, I love lists). Most of the research I did this week through ACM was to see if…

This fascinating 2014 study from the psychology department at Yale University found evidence that “Shared Experiences Are Amplified” – that is, regardless of the inherent quality of an experience (pleasant vs. unpleasant), experiencing it with another individual intensified the quality of the experience – i.e.,…