Thursday, June 18, 2009
Defining the behaviour
I’ve been playing around with umbrellas, trying to generate concepts for the last few weeks, apart from a brief 2 week break with a project with Nokia. All this while I’ve been a little bit disoriented. I’ve started with an object an trying to use that as inspiration for me. It’s such a strange process, it’s alien to me and my brain doesn’t like it one bit. Luckily, I’ve a great supervisor, Isabel Froes, and some great classmates and in the last few days I’ve been talking through ideas of people, particularly Nunzia and Adam, and they’ve helped be define some of the behaviours I would like to expose in my project.
First of all, I would like my project to be some kind of installation, possibly in a trade fair or museum context. There I would like to
- encourage people to be playful in a way they are not normally
- Create passive communication between people that might not talk to each other in a normal context
- Make people move their body, jump and dance around
- Surprise and amaze people
It’s a lot to hope to achieve, but if I can capture some of those thing it will be a start.
I have taken a lot of inspiration from the work of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, particularly his Body Movies project which used shadows to create an amazing experience for passers by. Here’s a video below. (it takes awhile to get going)