- Ideas&buliding
At the begining of the group meeting we chatted for several ideas like a big nursing goose robot to armed reomte control car. Eventually for the project we come up with the idea of a special mirror that will gradually turned the reflection inside into the scene of that locked kid in the story “Th ones who walk away from Omelas “. In the novel omelas is a utopian city which based on a suffered kid. Though the citizens of Omelas have all seen that kids, few of them thought that it may have also happened to them, such that , a machine that indicate this may be significant to morality.
we been using the card board to bulid the frame of the mirror. However, we then found it hard to make it stand. To deal with it this problem we tried different materials and determined to use a triangle made by cardborad and tape to stick it.
For the last step, we have some decorations on the mirror by markers
2. performance
For performance part we made a simplke script: The mirror was carried with an outsider who seen the sin and darkness of omelas. Two citizen would have visit the mirror. One will get scared by the mirror and another will make a self-reflection on the city itself and eventually decided to leave it.
In the script on group member will be the outsider and others will be in pairs to act as the viewer and reflection
And that has been the final performance
3. Other group’s performance
In my perspective of view, the one impressed me most is the TV one, which assumed a TV with the same tech that used in the nurse room. It’s quite a good performance by acting the TV offering whatever the user want. But what impressed me most was that this project is not come from nowhere but a modified version of the tech existing in the article. This article extended the origin article with quite an arduino way-using what exists now. Thus I found this a great project that can be learned with. However, I still suggest them to pay a bit focus on the explanation of limation and restriction on the machine.