monday marked a milestone of good intentions, as 2nd year students from the 2008 graduating (pending) class of my MA degree hosted schematic proposals for our final project. i was lucky enough to grab a good spot to present (last before the first brake) but was still stoopid nervous at trying to pitch my project in front of both years of the program, the program director, the guest critique tutor and our 4 project tutors.
the projects were pretty interesting, and it’s good to see that most of the projects are developing quite nicely. people seem to have solidified their concepts and there appears to be an end in sight!
some of the projects included a psycho-geographical atlas, a ceramic tile that gets worn away with the passage of people to reveal evolving content, the future of outdoor media, emergency shelters that are customizable to the typology of refugee, an allegorically immersive museum installation of baroque carriages for the pope, a user-design led participatory show, an engaging workshop that reaches out to the muslim communities in london, an urban installation that addresses the feeling of danger and security in hackney, a workshop that gets artists and architects to understand how to collaborate, an edible garden, and many, many other insightful projects.
and my project? i will hopefully get to work with some inspiring people to develop a grassroots oriented, multitouch interface. if you are interested, here is the link to a pdf of my presentation.
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