User:Lot
PROJECT 1
Critical Making exercise
"Reimagine an existing technology or platform using the provided sets of cards."
06/09
Today we assembled our teams and received our assignments.
Our team consists of:
• Annemarie (animation) • Dieke (animation) • Koen (animation) • Karlijn (graphic design) • Lot (graphic design)
For tomorrow, we have to use the cards we received today to reimagine a certain technology or platform.
== 07/09
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We started this day playing with the cards to see what kind of cool combinations we could make. After a while we settled with the idea of making an object designed for a tree. What if a tree could use a social network? We went for the following combination: "Make an object designed for a tree to use 'Social Networking'. Use folded paper to create a physical model of this new thing."
What if a tree could use a social network?
What are the things a tree can do? If the branches move it is the wind which do the work, not the tree itself. So maybe the only movement a tree creates, is growing.
We decided to keep it to just 'Yes' and 'No' decisions to keep it simple. This is how we arrived at Tinder, because not only is the idea of a tree on Tinder pretty funny, but it's also simple to use. You merely need to swipe to the left or the right whether you want to date a certain person or not. Maybe we could let the tree decide by letting it grow to either the left or the right...
For this prototype, we decided to use a smaller plant instead of a tree, because it's much easier for a smaller plant to grow and to build an object for it. Our plan is to let the plant grow in a tube-like structure and let it decide to grow further in either the left tube or the right tube. In both tubes, there is a sensor that detects whether it should swipe either left or right respectively. As of now we haven't figured out how to make the object swipe just yet. Today we made a prototype of the tube system out of paper, with one of the tube ways already being taken by the plant just to show what it would look like. We also made a Facebook and Tinder account for our plant: Clovis Clematis.
