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Florent, Max & Kevin [friends also in the interaction design department] and me were in Bologna, Italy.
We exhibited our four photosensitive installations. This is part of the Year of Light by UNESCO.
During the flight and at night, I still managed to get time to think about my new concept. I will write a longer article about it soon. My friends and I will create a new teaser presenting our four installations as a complete experience.
My dissertation helped me to define targets. But Jonathan Munn [my dissertation supervisor] & Nicolas Baumgartner [interaction design department director] both asked me to be more precise. They were right. Now I have a sharpened vision and 4 targets. It helps me to make design choices but also to know who are the main users I’m designing for, or how I need to design for them.
Process:
It became clear to me that my project, even if it’s not a service, won’t address “people”. It will address defined individuals or groups inside this global notion of “people”. I think that I can also address the professional field: services or startups who wants to be greener and to express their will of eco-responsability. I can also target eco-consulting companies and help them to visually or physically express their assessment to their clients. It gives me leads to think with a wider ranger of users. I also think that they may be not targeted directly, meaning I will address them with external parts of my projects (making of, informations, website).
Two groups
Four groups
I’m working on the vocabulary of my project. I’m trying to generate ideas and to give my research new directions by working on the notion of “physical network”. As I explained earlier (and that’s also the main point of my dissertation) every action on the web has a repercussion on the environment.
I’m using sticky notes. It helps me to work fast and to re-order the generated words as I want. Then I try to map the words to highlight the main notions. This is what I call scope 2. Then, scope 1 is more general and gives a global point of view.
Words in excel
Scope 2
Scope 1
This mindmap helps me to develop a deeper vocabulary and to target precise notions. It also helped me to determine different target audiences. Tomorrow I’ll post something about the mapping I made concerning the targets.
In the last post I explained that I had several ideas for my master’s project. I discussed it with one of my teacher. This is more related to the duality between art & information. This is linked to the concept of Ambient Display Technologies.
The concept: a website with a 3D object which is degraded by proportionally by tweet streams. The live tweet transmission can be perceived in a tangible way thanks to a real object created with organic materials which is also degraded. There are two aims in this project:
I think it may be a good way to make live tweet data-visualizations more useful. Here it will be a metaphor of the consumption and how a simple tweet, when retweeted 5billions times like #JeSuisCharlie can affect the planet. This isn’t just the electrical cost of a tweet, but this is about the whole system: don’t forget about the servers, datac enters, cooling system, screens displaying the information etc.
Of course this is still the beginning of the reflexion. Now that I have this intuition I’m gathering information to see if it’s a viable way to achieve my idea.
I wrote 85% of my dissertation. Last week was very hard. Less than 6 hours of sleep at night so I could wake up at 5AM and go to bed at midnight or 1AM. Usually I do the opposite and work at night. But my friend Arthur told me that your brain works better in the morning, so I believed him and tried to change my old habit.
I’m spending Christmas with my family and on the 27th I’m going back to Paris, making my luggages thanks to a 3 hours break then rush to the airport with my friend Fabrice. Then I’ll probably sleep in the plane. I’m joining my french friends Florent [living in Boston] and John [living in Los Angeles]. We booked a reservation with airbnb, in a apartment in Brooklyn next to the Brooklyn’s bridge. Time to rest and discover another place in the United States.