IDEA 1: LET YOUR FLOWERS BLOOM
My first idea is about relationships between parents and children.
In this project, the role of children is represented by flowers, which are controlled by the computer. And the environment represents parents.
Initially, there are some seeds buried in the soil illustrated on the screen. Users could control the weather conditions with the volume/ force they put on the pad/ force they use to squeeze something. And all these actions represent parents’ actions in children’s growing process. And in this project, they would influence the growth of seeds into flowers.
Basically, so far I can think of the basic logic is, if the volume is too high/ the force is too much, the weather condition will be bad, and flowers will stop growing/grow backward/ or even wither, and vice versa.
This project is made for both parents and children. As for Parents, they would know parenting doesn’t mean taking everything of their children under control, but sometimes letting children go in the way they want. As for children, they would know that parenting is such a hard job, and they would understand how much effort their parents are making.
IDEA 2: “PERFECT” BODY FACTORY
My second idea is about female body shame.
So there is a model female (I haven’t decided to make a physical one or put her on screen)with a bunch of rubber bands wrapping around her neck/arm/ waist/leg (or breasts, but I haven’t thought of how to make it clear as some people think the bigger the breasts, the better it looks).
Users could pull the rubber bands to put force on this woman’s body to make it slim. I planned to bury force sensors to detect how much force people put on her when pulling the bands. And there will be how pain she feels illustrated by shapes/ lines/ sound plays on the laptop.
This project is for women who are suffering from body shame and I am trying to criticize the common criteria about body shape in women.
IDEA 3: I WANT TO BE THE FAIREST
My third project is also about female beauty and about facial surgery.
A woman’s head is placed on a box, and she has an initially “plain” appearance, so she wants to be beautiful by taking facial surgeries. And soon she get addicted to it, so she kept doing facial surgeries. And I wanted to use sounds, shapes to make her pain visualized.
Honestly, I haven’t thought about how to combine Arduino and processing perfectly in this case…
This idea is mainly for women who suffer from appearance anxiety, and I am trying to warn facial-surgery addicts.