Idea:
Our project comes from the story “the winter market”. The heroine in the story asks “me” to record her dream which inspired us to think about designing a project about dream recording. After we have a brief talk with our teammates, soon had a final idea that was made up of parts of each person’s ideas. The project basically contains the main brain and four helmets which are connected by the channels. We want to use the main brain to store and transmit emotions. We hope that through this form, people with different ideas can understand each other. Reduce conflict and misunderstanding. It’s like today’s world where countries are divided by race, language, and religion. But when people have more cultural exchanges, more consensus, and less misunderstanding, there will be fewer wars in the world.
Process:
Miranda and I made several prototypes to help people choose which products are more in line with our ideas more straight. After we decide on our final product, we start to work on it. Because I like manual activities very much, I have been helping my teammates to cut cardboard and paste cardboard with glue guns. When making the final brains, we wanted to make the brains look more creative, so we just randomly pasted colored stickers on the board to make the brains look more sci-fi. I really like the vibe of our team when we work together, people were willing to take advice from others before we get a consensus. That’s how our project came out, with an insane brainstorm.
For the improvement, I think that after viewing the project from other groups, I thought that we should add more plots in our final presentation. What we did are just present the basic functions of the devices instead of a complete story background,
I really love the sponge bob group! First of all， Using SpongeBob Squarepants as a backdrop is a very creative idea. And their project that using gloves to detect whether the workers are felt a lot of pressure and anxiety or not due to the overload work is also a really meaningful project. Nowadays, employers are used to exploiting their employees and seem that is their duty to occupy their leisure time of overtime working. Their project really revealed this social phenomenon and want to use this way to inspire people to enjoy more life for themselves.