Proposal 1
A. Project title: Feeling the Forests
B. Project statement of purpose:
Forests are an important part of the earth. Outside the human society, it presents the great power of the natural world. There are special sceneries of plants, animals, streams, and variable weather conditions in the forests. Forests provide with people unique aesthetic experiences and thoughts about life, the world, and human beings ourselves. In nowadays society, we live in the cities and focus on many social issues, which makes us sometimes ignore the beauty of nature. I want to use this project to let people feel the forest, to feel the power of nature.
With images of forests shown by processing, the participants can stand in front of an “operating table” and use some sensors to change the environment in the forest. For example, they can use a potentiometer to control the wind, and the trees will swing when there are winds. There is also a light sensor, when the light is covered it becomes night. The forest will become dark and there will be some animals, I want to use some output to show this though I haven’t decided which output equipment I’m going to use.
C. Drawings and sketches
Proposal 2
A. Project title: Competing
B. Project statement of purpose:
This project is also about forests. To be more specific, it is about a special phenomenon in the rainforest: Strangling. Forest is quiet and harmonious as someone may think, on the contrary, it is full of competition. Some vines climb on some big and high trees to get more sunlight. Strangler figs suck up the nutrients from their’ victims, causing them to die eventually.
The project needs two participants. One represents the power of vines, and the other represents the original tree. “Vines” should try to cover the light sensor from being lit by the light, and the “tree” should fight against by adding forces to a force sensitive resistor.
C. Drawings and sketches
Proposal 3
A. Project title: A room with nowhere to hide/unescapable room
B. Project statement of purpose:
In nowadays society, surveillance cameras are almost everywhere, but what about our privacy? The project will have a storyline: a person went back to his/her room but found he/she was under surveillance. He/she wanted to hide but only to find that no matter where he/she went he/she would be noticed and informed that he/she was under surveillance. The room will be sketched in processing and the participants can control the person’s position with two potentiometers/ultrasonic sensors. After trying twice, he/she could leave the room by standing in front of the door and pressing a button (to open the door), however, once he/she left the room a buzzer would buzz very sharply, and the only way to make it stop buzzing was to return the room. I want to use this project to make people think about the relationship between surveillance and privacy.
C. Drawings and sketches:
