DigitalCraft Wiki:Future Memories
Starting Point
After the Memory Core Workshop this assignment started. The question was to create a medium, way or work about Future Memories. We immediately brainstormed about what memories are for us. The most strong way to remember something is smell. But pictures most of the time tell the biggest stories. By seeing an image from 10 by 15 cm, you can tell stories from way back, detailed en you can really go back to that moment. We find that fascinating. Will is also be able the other way around. That you start by the memory and that the photo will pop up in your head. We'd like to experiment this. Testing your memory.
But then, we began to run out of time. And we were not yet convinced by our own concept. So we started brainstormen again. We came up with the idea of vaccuum bags. Because that is a way to keep something very long lasting. Like you want memories to stay forever. We got stuck on this again, because we just forced ourself to think of something that we could put in the vacuum bags (like smell from important persons in our lives etc), but it was not really conceptual of well thought of.
That is where we made another switch. We asked ourself the question: where are the most of our memories right now? Answer: on Facebook. It sounds stupid, but is is such an easy way of collecting moments. Positive moments. Sometimes you just scroll down your own timeline and you get happy of all the moments you experienced. Although it felt confronting that Facebook has all our (positive) memories, it is the truth and that is why we decided to go on with this. And how dependent we are from our digital devices, like mobile phones, where we scroll down our time line a ton of times, we actually do not really carry it with us. Or we do not really have it around us. We felt that we can make a change here.
Design Research
We started with scrolling down our own Facebook Timeline. Which was really fun to do, and see everything that happened the last year. But it is only on Facebook.com. A website. You have to go to it to see it, but actually memories should be around you all the time. In your home. Like pictures in a photoframe. Or like the little photo's you keep in your wallet. But that is not able with FB nowadays. So that is where we started designing. We want to design a tool of a work that your FB positive memories will be really around you.
Design Proces
We started with the 'pasfoto' thing. That now, at the end is actually just a small step and maybe not even needed. But it was good to try. We printed our whole FB timeline on 'pasfoto' format so you can really carry it with you.
The main thing is this project is the Facebook Foto Frame. Nowadays there already excist a digital photo frame where you can put several pictures on that will change everytime. But you always have to refresh them yourself. We thought of a photo frame that will show you FB timeline and update each time you post something on FB. So the photoframe is always up to date.
Final Design
