Create an intervention in public space which changes perception, use or behaviour in this space.
Category: Design Without
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fun experiment using ambiguous religious, technological and pop culture references
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From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation
Brief Think about your practice and use the winter holiday to position yourself in the creative world. Consider how would you bring order from chaos. Response I was inspired by Lauren Lee McCarthy’s – Social Turkers project where she employed Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to direct her actions in real-time, during dates. After analysing various… Continue reading From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation
Negentropy
Premisses From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Entropy and life § Negative entropy. “Syntropy” redirects here. For other uses, see Syntropy (software). In information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. The concept and phrase “negative entropy” was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1944 popular-science book What is Life?[1] Later, Léon Brillouin shortened the phrase to negentropy.[2][3] In 1974, Albert… Continue reading Negentropy
Power of Presence / Presence of Power
Brief the assignment was to think about ‘Power of Presence / Presence of Power’ Outcome I asked a colleague to connect me to the class through Skype and to put their laptop on a chair as if I were a participant. The colleague also carried the laptop around to allow me to experience all of… Continue reading Power of Presence / Presence of Power
Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard
Outcome Group activity — I asked everyone in the classroom to say what should the current year be, based on the fact that humanity doesn’t have a standardised calendar system. Brief create/design/a new default/standard Feedback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra Research Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverLaw.html The Law… Continue reading Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard
Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad
Outcome Research I decided to explore the cliches used to market cosmetic industry products regarding the effects of gravity on human skin and I tried to imagine how a capitalist mindset might still find ways to profit from the adverse effects of low gravity on Mars (i.e. improved skin elasticity compared to Earth) by changing… Continue reading Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad
Anarchy in the classroom
Outcome I hid a Bluetooth speaker in the classroom’s ceiling and played a 30-minute audio file intended to disturb the class as if the sounds were coming from outside the window/room. The audio which starts just before the class group assembles in the room has a continuous discreet construction site atmosphere to make the participants… Continue reading Anarchy in the classroom
Alien Language
Outcome I presented to the class a local grocery shopping bag containing three food jars with my own urine, faeces and sperm. The brief asked us to imagine that we would ‘wake up in this reality’ without prior knowledge and to invent a way of communicating with the ‘new world’. After researching various ways in… Continue reading Alien Language