A mini-video of Stormy Weather (1943), sang by Lena Horne
Monday
P3, W11, Rough, Diversions of Typographical Setting
Screen shots of an approach to the project, Diversions of Typographical Setting.
BACKGROUND:
What kinds of intervention in software can cause a user think critically on a process of typographical settings?
ASSUMPTIONS:
“Reflectives Lock” on a keyboard activates a supplement software.
“Reflectives Mode” through mouse-right-click activates a supplement software as well.
A supplement software has two sets of mode; objective mode and subjective mode.
In subjective mode, “Diversions of Typographical Setting” has check boxes under each distinctive.
The Reflective Mode claims to evaluate current conditions of typographical setting. The RM pauses a moment of a progression of typographical settings and provides a list of diversions. Diversions are alternatives for critical judgments of typographical settings.
The diversions can be updated, co-edited and ranked by users.
APPROACH:
1. access a supplement software through keyboard or mouse click.
2. select a subjective mode.
3. go through diversions under the subjective mode.
4. anticipate additional diversions.
CURRENT & NEXT STEP:
I wanted to set a scenario of alternatives in typographical setting. I thought what if I can approach my inquiry with only words (manual task) without numerals (default set). I thought typographical setting through words rises intuitive senses and interrupts preoccupied judgments. Further possible scenario, for instance, can be add secondly options (badly or goodly) at a judgmental word (Grotesque). If so, it is possible to get “goodly Grotesque.” Or a judgmental word can be intertwined with other diversion words in other lines.
Even though my approach can be written in diversions, feedback of diversions can not be proven (I am not sure how this trial really influence actual type set). Perhaps, in this context, puzzle-like wordings are a value of reflective own judgment in process. I want to discuss about a concept/representation of diversions. How can diversions be embedded in the physical processes involving the physical handing of the medium?
Sunday
Saturday
W6, Outline, Community, The Scrap Exchange
Note:
For the mid-term report, I choose a community of the scrap exchange. I have got superficial information from the website. I have exchanged e-mails with Ann, a director of the organization, started to know the group under the surface level. And I have visited the place in Durham, talked with Ann, and impressed by how the organization runs. I took some note based on Doni’s five attributes of community; life goals, historical consciousness, relationships, agency, and organizational structure.
creative
LIFE GOALS:
How can a life model of creative interaction be build?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnification
looking for spark, work for imagination
rise awareness of distinction between recycling and reuse. recycling is inefficient
having people change perspective
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
envision how people consume their creation?
receptive 18 years of reuse of changing people behaviors, embrace it
NYC department of cultural affair, dep. of sanitation
RELATIONSHIPS:
partners community system
senior goal
falling people values
engage in process
third place between home and work place
AGENCY:
as a workshop, open studio
open 7 days a week, accessible
provide chance of material repurpose
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE:
governed by core staff
member of board/ volunteer as boards
educator, dean of natural...
artist, mixed medium...
database work person,
museum director,
Duke consulting,
after school teacher
For the mid-term report, I choose a community of the scrap exchange. I have got superficial information from the website. I have exchanged e-mails with Ann, a director of the organization, started to know the group under the surface level. And I have visited the place in Durham, talked with Ann, and impressed by how the organization runs. I took some note based on Doni’s five attributes of community; life goals, historical consciousness, relationships, agency, and organizational structure.
creative
LIFE GOALS:
How can a life model of creative interaction be build?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnification
looking for spark, work for imagination
rise awareness of distinction between recycling and reuse. recycling is inefficient
having people change perspective
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
envision how people consume their creation?
receptive 18 years of reuse of changing people behaviors, embrace it
NYC department of cultural affair, dep. of sanitation
RELATIONSHIPS:
partners community system
senior goal
falling people values
engage in process
third place between home and work place
AGENCY:
as a workshop, open studio
open 7 days a week, accessible
provide chance of material repurpose
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE:
governed by core staff
member of board/ volunteer as boards
educator, dean of natural...
artist, mixed medium...
database work person,
museum director,
Duke consulting,
after school teacher
Thursday
Saturday
P1, W5, Representation, A Cultural Probe
Screen capture of The Soap Care scenario, accompanied by The Heeding Instruction, by him
What:
current R&D project from the coffee shop experience by design perspective
How:
reconfigure new concepts from new experience in design process
1. experience Cup A Joe (local coffee house)
2. describe experience through customers
3. write a personal story (fiction or non-fiction)
4. intervene a moment of certain experience
5. create a condition of the moment
6. represent A Cultural Probe (feedback system from people) by design
Where:
Cup A Joe
Who:
customer as designer
When:
a moment of intervention at the space
Note:
Base on the design process, I made a kit for the Soap Care. The concept of Soap Care is bringing a shortened and metaphoric coffee bean heeding experience through washing one's hands experience. The framework of the concept development is envisioning ritual moment by the Soap Care kit and providing *conditions of the Soap Care experience to customer.
*conditions: a moment of pause (through ritualistic break), intervention through conditions, gently shift perspective
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