Multilayer video projection, resembling a hologram.
Check out my Miro board for my updated timeline.
I am slowly beginning to see the connections between all the courses, even though they are all very different. I see the professors pushing us to shift our perspective in our assignments, wanting us to use these submissions as a way of working on our design interventions.
I’ve noticed that people around me are managing to do so through the fabacademy challenges: Many students who were focused on biomaterials are including them in their projects, and others interested in furniture design or waste management are also framing their fabacademy work around that too.
However, as of now, I have found it hard to include my Design intervention ideas in my fabacademy weekly + monthly challenges. So far, we’ve focused mainly on laser cutting small objects, which although I’ve had fun working with, it’s kind of irrelevant to my ideas around interactive installations and multimedia projections.
What I have also noticed is that even though I am not fully making the connection between Fabacademy and my Design Interventions (yet), I am definitely there with the branding course. People have struggled defining their brand, visual identity, messaging and mission, but I have very clear ideas. Maybe this is related to my background, which so far has involved more branding and graphic design as opposed to fabrication and woodwork.
The exercise I completed with Chris during Kate's branding lesson on Monday was very helpful in defining key components for our Design Intervention: the target audience and the content. Find a more in-depth summary of the exercise here.
My reverse Design Intervention
Recently, I've been seeing great value in what I like to call "Reverse Design Interventions". Instead of me actively organising and planning an intervention myself and inviting others to participate, I decide to participate in events organised by other people, which in a way is me engaging in other peoples' Design Interventions. By doing what I'm interested in, I can be inspired and learn new things, then reframe that into an intervention. I remember Oscar saying that it's important to realise in what ways Design Interventions come to us, even simply by walking around the city.
The Frida Kahlo Exhibition
I decided to go see this exhibition on Monday, as a way of getting inspiration, networking and seeing what is around the field of Interactive exhibitions. In a way, it felt like community engagement again, trying to scout what is going on in the field I am interested in.
Two key parts I noticed right at the beginning of the exhibition: Credits and sponsors. Often times, only the sponsors are mentioned at these kinds of exhibitions, but rarely do you see the names of the people who were directly involved or the creators of the audiovisuals.
Some familiar names popped up, like UPC, BAU and Elisava, but most names were unfamiliar. To further understand the community I want to put myself in, I will do more research on the unfamiliar names.
Multilayer video projection, resembling a hologram.
