My past week has consisted of various interactions that have helped to reframe my original concept, expand my understanding of what something like this can be, and to help challenge the preconceived notion of what my project can actually be.

 

Monday’s are for Winners:

Monday was such a critical day because Nicoletta was wonderful enough to meet my frustrations (and apparently other classmates as well) in the middle by setting up an informal Thesis meeting. While this has an impact on her research as well – it helped me continue to reframe what this output should be.

 

It came out in our discussion that no matter it the physically becomes there are elements of:

Affirmation: Of their grief, and an imprint of relevance.

Gratitude: Pausing to be thankful of those who have past – to be in dialog with them.

Perpetuating Legacy: In the living that have stayed behind.

 

While Jay helped keeping mind the ideas of:

Randomness is always a thing of benefit and helps us engage.

Re-contextualizing is key – not reinvention. So don’t stress about preexisting things. Your ‘thing’ will have your hallmarks over it and will be different as a result.

 

More than one way to idealize:

With those lessons in mind, I’ve spent the middle week piggy backing off of our attempts to expand concept solution scope in ‘Designing Change’ by running an experiment to see how people felt about their emotional connections between data types, and to look into voice mail.

I may not stick with the voice mail angle, but it was brought to my attention that voice was the medium that most people feel the most connection to. I wanted to test that out and my currently that seems to be somewhat true. The sample pool is a bit small right now, but it seems to check out. (Although I suspect that is changing with the tech & broader generational shifts occurring…)

 

[Insert Skillshare Ad copy?]?:

Next steps include wrapping up the data polling, looking into what is technically feasible in a short(er) amount of time, learning how things like voice mail or recording actually works, looking into SkillShare and other assets to help flesh out the weaker aspects of my design techniques as well.