Water Map

October 29, 2009

I was inspired by my weekend at Monterrey Bay and the way we think about or sometimes forget about the importance of water.
My POV for this project is a person who wants to be more conscience of their water use.
So  I began thinking of a way to create a map that showed a timescale, used [...]

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Project 2: Mapping Music Affinities

October 22, 2009

I decided to work from one of the prompts given on Monday class, the idea of mapping music affinities.  From there I started thinking  and talking about iPods and iPod users with people.  I discovered that there is a big difference in the type of iPod users, for instance, some meticulously chooses their songs and [...]

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Project 3- Culture Map by Timing Video

October 19, 2009

Challenge: Design a cultural map using time scales and video
Manipulate variables of a d.Maps function to guide you:
Track(s) + Time Scales + Video = Cultural Maps Expression

For example, I can build on the track of music and saturate myself with live music. While gaining empathy through interviews and observations, I eventually define the following POV:
Mateo [...]

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Project 2: Food Call

October 16, 2009

Brainstorming experience
–101 cookbooks & the amateur gourmet
–those are cooking blogs, and I spent afternoons looking through their recommendations.
–listening to Pandora…
–watching people eat at dinner/ speaking with them
–discussing dinner plans
Question on choice: at what point in the process have we “made up our mind”?
Process experience:
Going around suddenly tuning in to what I was hearing was simply [...]

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Sound Diaspora

October 15, 2009

I was inspired by all and nothing more than La Maison Francaise, the house that has been my home for the last three years. On Monday nights, the wine flows, the cheese is devoured, and the house is rich with conversations in French. However, the rest of the week is characterized by phone conversations in [...]

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Project 1: Lost and Found

October 12, 2009

The inspiration for my POV came from finding an ultrasound picture on the floor of my stats lecture.  From there it became clear that I wanted to make some sort of map that would log those findings.  Only by talking to more people about why they liked finding random objects did I learn two important [...]

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Project 1: Sleep in Photos

October 10, 2009

My POV:
Stacey arrived at college intent on keeping her sleeping pattern as close to the way it was at home as possible.  Three months in, however, she realizes she’s completely lost her inner clock, and is staying up all hours of the night.  She would like to figure out how that happened, and ways she [...]

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Lab 3 Recap

October 9, 2009

Last night started with brief check-ins about non work related activities. It’s great to hear tidbits about the lives of fellow students that I would otherwise not know about.
To warm up I showed a couple private prototypes, one I made for Project 1 and the other as an example for Project 2 by Zeen Labs.
Next, [...]

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Project 2 Lab Challenge

October 9, 2009

As part of our lab challenge, we went all over campus and captured the sound of various sculptures on campus.  Without seeing the actual sculptures, visitors can use the map above and sound to determine if they are interested in visiting the different sculptures.
G3
M2
P4
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Discussion 3 Recap

October 6, 2009

Last night was a small turnout, maybe swine flu is spreading despite the quarantine on campus. I’ve been struggling with some type of flu as well…
First off, more questions were voiced about Project 1 and the use of the term “tracks” in our function:
Track(s) + Dimension(s) + Media = Cultural Maps Expression
When someone says “tracks,” [...]

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