There are two options for the final project for this class. Either:
1) Take one of your existing project responses (the measuring device, the time piece, the collection) and develop it further. Address the feedback you were provided during its presentation and produce a further iteration of your concept for public presentation in Week 14. Your project development must demonstrate an advancement of your thinking and approach from your initial project response. Refine your concept and its execution, or translating it to another medium for experimentation.
2) Curate or structure an experimental or atypical engagement with an environment, ecosystem or infrastructure, developing your response in relation to an issue or idea from the class readings or lectures. Consider your method, you may choose to:
- develop a design investigation, finding a way to share your research publicly.
- design an experimental environmental interface or intervention. According to the critical interfaces manifesto, an “interface is a device designed and used to facilitate the relationship between systems.” How might your work trouble explicate existing relations or trouble the existing dynamics between human and non human lifeforms?
Whether you choose to do an investigation, an intervention or an interface, how can your response shift how we perceive our own ecology?
Due:
In class on Wednesday December 11th
Deliverables:
Please come ready to display, pin up, or present your work in class. Be prepared to discuss your background research, methodology and influences, addressing why your chose to execute the project as you did. (Note your influences could be artists, designers, researchers or other species).
Documentation of your work in still or moving image is recommended. You are also to share a short piece of reflective writing on your work (2-3 paragraphs) and share a link to this via the Slack by the end of the week.
Please include:
- A description of your project in a sentence or two.
- What relationship to the environment does your concept imply?
- What artists or themes were you thinking about as you formulated the idea?
- How did you use site? How did you use technology? How did you choreograph the audience? Did you utilize interaction and why? Who (creator, audience, other lifeforms) has agency in this work and who doesn’t?
- What open questions did you have going in? How did making the work change or address these questions?
- What surprised you about this task?
- If you were to do this again, what would you change, clarify, extend or amplify?