Warm-Up Project
To give us a basic understanding about what companies are already having a similar approach, we were to make a quick presentation on four companies or groups have taken it upon themselves to cut down on their own environmental impact, or help out our environment through adding positive additions to the world such as trees or removing negative objects such as bottles.
After we had a more solid concept of what we had to create, ideas that we were already beginning to build up would contribute towards the four board we had to create.
Inspiration and Personal Manifesto Board:
My Manifesto board consisted of three areas which I identified within the photos I had taken on our trip to Tentsmuir. I already had a good variety from my presentation when it came to what other people were doing so, I decided not to re-use them within my board. Un-suspecting to me, I was subconsciously interested within perspective and imagining what could be done with unique and interesting areas I had found within with wildlife conservation park. This therefore led to my final project but that is for further on in my blog.
Product Design Board:
For the product design board, we were instructed that we had to create a product that consisted of one or more found objects from our trip to Tentsmuir. I didn’t have a firm idea on what I wanted to create, there were three lighting pieces which experimented with different forms of lighting: a small lap projecting from a cone, a mood light consisting of a hollow plastic piece on a rock then a more luminescent strip that winds through the cracks in the bark. My favourite is the small pot as it looks quite rustic or quaint: consisting of a pebble, wire, a smashed bottle head and popsicle sticks.
Interior Design Board:
In the Interior task, we had to create a mobile structure intertwined with nature. I returned to my first board (Personal Inspiration) and concentrated on perspective and how a structure could channel someone’s line of sign or block out external factors that prevent you appreciating an individual line of sight or sense. I experimented with how lighting would spread or disperse but also how structures could intertwine or take shape from nature on every scale.
Digital Interaction Design Board:
For the Digital Interaction Board, we were instructed that a camera had to be involved, so this could also include audio if people wanted to expand into that area such as me.
The idea was that people within the city or their stressed, filled lives could escape and use an app to transport them to a peaceful area and let them focus on a specific, calming aspect. By entering into a 360-degree image, the user could move around and focus into what they wanted to listen into: looking up at the trees from a camera placed in a forest and have a receive live audio of just the leaves rustling.
