Thesis Hw 1: From Inspiration to Questions

 

 

For this week in thesis I decided to try out IDM’s prethesis brainstorming exercise:

Stage 1:

Some Inspirational Projects / would like to revisit once digging deeper

• Tetrachromia: Seeing Nature through the Eyes of a bird  [Universal Everything]
• Smog Free Tower / Bicycle [Studio Rosengarde]
• Memo’s Learning to See /
• Gene Kogan’s interactive @ Futurium “We build this city”
• Using AI to Generate Images, the GauGAN Journey [Siggraph 2019]
• Networks of New York [Ingrid Burrington]
• Oil Twitchers & Barge Spotters – a fieldguide to whale creek [Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies] / Newtown Creek Nature Walk
• Mr. Trash Wheel [Inner City harbor iniative – Baltimore]
•  itp group from Playful Design of Serious Research
• Invisible Cities Lab @ Open Dot
• Quilts of instagram
• Quotidian Record [Brian House]
• Packing up the Rest of Your Stuff on the Last Day of your Old Apartment 
• Einrúm Icelandic Scarf patterns inspired by nature
• Gates of Light [Studio Roosenberg]
• Svalbard & Global Seed Vault
• Beauty [Olafur Eliasson 1993]
• Jesse Simpson’s LIME synth thesis 
• Jingwen’s My Heart on my Dress thesis 
• Morse code scarf [janusz jaworski]

 

Stage 2: Why?

• Tetrachromia: Seeing Nature through the Eyes of a bird  [Universal Everything]
  • offering a layered perspective
  • bringing us closer to nature
  • educational for all ages
  • grounded in reality / mixed reality

 

• Smog Free Tower / Bicycle [Studio Rosengarde]
  • remediation in nature
  • bringing us closer to nature
  • creating a healthier public space
  • tangible positive steps to change / not just the critique

 

• Memo’s Learning to See / Using AI to Generate Images, the GauGAN Journey  / Gene’s Futurium installation
  • playing with a collective database of images / a shared imagination
  • new ways of drawing
  • tactile
  • demystifying machine learning

 

• Networks of New York [Ingrid Burrington]
  • unpacking the black box of tech / tech infrastructure
  •  grounded in reality
  • a closer look
  • guide book + physical walk
  • personalizing / re-claiming “cold” networks
  • educational

 

• Oil Twitchers & Barge Spotters – a fieldguide to whale creek [Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies] / Newtown Creek Nature Walk
  • remediation
  • grounded in reality
  • a closer look
  • audio tour / more layers of accessibility

 

• Dino AR app [itp group from Playful Design of Serious Research]
  • museum exhibition design
  • playful educational interactive
  • allows for animation & text –> for a varied audience
  • bridges the physical & the digital

 

• Invisible Cities Lab @ Open dot
  • imagining new futures
  • grounded in reality
  • demystifying machine learning
  • new ways of drawing

 

 

• Quilts of Instagram
  • soft & tactile
  • slow fashion / slowness
  • handmade / personalized
  • a sense of individualized warmth & protection
  • sense of community / a place for storytelling
  • creating a space for making/ reflection

 

 

• Quotidian Record
  • personalizing data
  •  beauty of the everyday
  • experimental

 

 

 

• Packing up the rest of my stuff on the last day of my old apartment 
  • a quiet space of reflection
  • sense of discovery
  • a relatable / connectable experience
  • videogames as zines

 

 

• Gates of light
  • site specific
  • tangible, positive steps to change vs the critique only
  • highlighting pre-existing beauty
  • bio-inspiration / bio mimetics [irridescent / refraction of butterfly wings]

 

 

• Icelandic Scarf Patterns inspired by nature
  • bringing us closer to nature
  • personalized / poetic
  • site specific / tied to a specific place
  • a closer look (@ the environment around us)

 

 

• Svbald Global Seed Vault
  • creating an archive
  • remediation
  • bringing us closer to nature
  • speculative (but possible) futures

 

 

• Beauty (Olafur Eliasson 1993)
  • a connectable experience of mist and light
  • the beauty in everyday moments / isolated
  • a reflective space / moment

 

 

• Mr. Trash Wheel Baltimore
  • remediation
  • gamification that has helped engage a wider audience on an important issue
  • a sense of play / discovery

 

•  Morse Code Scarf ( Janusz Jaworski)
  • personalizing data
  • slow fashion
  • soft & tactile
  • making the invisible visible
  • creating a space for reflection