So the first presentation is a fact. For those still wanting to read our little presentation here is the textual content. If anyone would like the PTT for closer study (*chuckle*) you can ask Sara, Irena, Forkan or me (Roy) and we can give it to you. So here it goes:
Values
- Interaction
- 5 senses
- Discovery
- Experience and emotions
Goal
“Affecting people with a poem in and interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”
Idea
- Space
- 6 Walls with actively flowing calligraphy
- 6 Lines of a poem to discover by interacting
- Affecting the user
Once again, pictures will be arriving. Have no fear!
Group J
Friday, July 4, 2008
the next pictures are about our first inspiration sources...
for developing and trying out as many possibilities about our endproject...
which brought us finally to the main concept...
for developing and trying out as many possibilities about our endproject...
which brought us finally to the main concept...
calligraphy could be also in a really colourful brigth way
Ashes and SnowFeahter to fire
fire to blood
blood to bone
bone to marrow
marrow to ashes
ashes to snow
combining the calligraphy wih "nowadays -subjects"
and getting into therms like graffiti and three dimensional experience
this is our first concept sketch...
6 lines of the poem are pointed out as 6 different walls...
only one concept the "calligraffiti" one is shown here as an example...
fire to blood
blood to bone
bone to marrow
marrow to ashes
ashes to snow
combining the calligraphy wih "nowadays -subjects"and getting into therms like graffiti and three dimensional experience
this is our first concept sketch...6 lines of the poem are pointed out as 6 different walls...
only one concept the "calligraffiti" one is shown here as an example...
Group Jam, full speed ahead
So it has been a busy day today. Actually the entire schedule is quite busy (whether we follow it or not). But today was the day to get all members in the same direction and really start thinking like a team. We were supposed to have an idea ready to present on Friday. This idea will be developed further in the beginning of next week. We had quite a long discussion about our goal. But in the end we all agreed in the general goal and got to work on the ideas. Below you can see some notes on our progress/thoughts today, just so you can see what we have done.
Concept Goal:
“Affecting people with a poem in an interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”
Things that brought us to our goal:
- Tell stories (history, creation, religion, etc.)
- Discover information instead of just “learning”
- Interaction/response
- Calligraphy
- Telling a poem
- Enrich people, making them smarter (the harder the road…)
- Experience/feeling
Some of the goals we were thinking about before reaching the final goal:
“Making the user more aware of the meaning of calligraphy through an interactive experience”
“Making the user explore the meaning of calligraphy through an interactive experience”
“Create a new way to explore calligraphy with interactive design”
“Affecting people with a poem in an interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”
“Creating an interactive environment which will affect people’s emotions. ”
Ideas/inspiration/concepts:
- Jeffrey Shaw – Legible City like digital place
- Calligraphy community making online calligraphy and sharing your art.
- Storytelling in digital 3D environment.
o Information points
o Choices in story
- Making calligraphy by making sound
- Learning history with interactive stories with calligraphic design.
o Also use smell
o The poem in calligraphy, discovering the game will award you with a translation of a word. So in the end you know what the poem says.
o Enter the room, darkness, music and the screen. Then the music fades out, and lights go on around an instrument. People should go and interact with the instrument while the movie goes on, creating calligraphy onscreen.
o See: Visuals
o Hear: Sound/music
o Smell: Candles/incense
o Touch: ‘Drumming’
o Taste: ???????????????
- Walking calligraphy. Calligraphy gets written digitally on the wall. You have 6 walls.
- Making your own poem which gets translated digitally in calligraphy. Sort of like a guestbook. Older messages fade, wear or overlay.
So we will see where this is going to take us. But we are confident in our team and we think we will make something good. Hopefully you will all agree with us in the presentations on Friday.
Good luck to all the groups and enjoy!
Concept Goal:
“Affecting people with a poem in an interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”
Things that brought us to our goal:
- Tell stories (history, creation, religion, etc.)
- Discover information instead of just “learning”
- Interaction/response
- Calligraphy
- Telling a poem
- Enrich people, making them smarter (the harder the road…)
- Experience/feeling
Some of the goals we were thinking about before reaching the final goal:
“Making the user more aware of the meaning of calligraphy through an interactive experience”
“Making the user explore the meaning of calligraphy through an interactive experience”
“Create a new way to explore calligraphy with interactive design”
“Affecting people with a poem in an interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”
“Creating an interactive environment which will affect people’s emotions. ”
Ideas/inspiration/concepts:
- Jeffrey Shaw – Legible City like digital place
- Calligraphy community making online calligraphy and sharing your art.
- Storytelling in digital 3D environment.
o Information points
o Choices in story
- Making calligraphy by making sound
- Learning history with interactive stories with calligraphic design.
o Also use smell
o The poem in calligraphy, discovering the game will award you with a translation of a word. So in the end you know what the poem says.
o Enter the room, darkness, music and the screen. Then the music fades out, and lights go on around an instrument. People should go and interact with the instrument while the movie goes on, creating calligraphy onscreen.
o See: Visuals
o Hear: Sound/music
o Smell: Candles/incense
o Touch: ‘Drumming’
o Taste: ???????????????
- Walking calligraphy. Calligraphy gets written digitally on the wall. You have 6 walls.
- Making your own poem which gets translated digitally in calligraphy. Sort of like a guestbook. Older messages fade, wear or overlay.
So we will see where this is going to take us. But we are confident in our team and we think we will make something good. Hopefully you will all agree with us in the presentations on Friday.
Good luck to all the groups and enjoy!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Sara
This is going to short summary of my feelings from the four first days of the course. I will not write about the project because we are writing about that together in the group.
In the beginning I was just curious about what the course really was about and how it would be like to work in the group. But I think it really turned out well. I like the course and I really like my new friends in my group.
Our inspiration subject, Ottoman Calligraphy is very interesting in a lot of ways like what does it really means and what is it and how are we allowed to use it. I will write more about that later in the week.
The best lecture so far I think is Cornés and Thomas maybe because I could understand them easiest. The thing I really liked about Thomas presentation was the thing that all religions has there own Akilles heel.
//Sara
In the beginning I was just curious about what the course really was about and how it would be like to work in the group. But I think it really turned out well. I like the course and I really like my new friends in my group.
Our inspiration subject, Ottoman Calligraphy is very interesting in a lot of ways like what does it really means and what is it and how are we allowed to use it. I will write more about that later in the week.
The best lecture so far I think is Cornés and Thomas maybe because I could understand them easiest. The thing I really liked about Thomas presentation was the thing that all religions has there own Akilles heel.
//Sara
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
... starting with creating a mindmap ... getting to know each other a little better ... each other perspective about personal views and way of thinking ... talking about "nono´s" about what is not possible to do with calligraphy regarding on using in new way ... getting a short overview of the different styles of calligraphy during the museum visit ...
JAM
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A good start is half the work ...
That should mean that with a great start like I had all the work is done already.
No there is tons of work yet to do, actually all of it. But what a start it has been.
The trip to Istanbul was long but pleasant nonetheless. The closer we got to the hotel the more nervous I became. But that's pretty normal for me. I can safely say now though, that this is going to be a wonderful experience. The hotel is ok and Istanbul is really impressive (and I haven't seen a lot of it, actually almost none of it or so it seemed today, cruising the Bosporus).
The people are wonderful. The other students seem really interesting and they are eager to learn. All four countries have brought a group that's willing to work and at the same time have a great time in a new, fresh environment with new and fresh people. And the teachers/professors are intersting people too (theater backgrounds, enthousiastic attitude). I really get the idea they actually want to teach us and inspire us, instead of just being there for feedback and guidance.
I was pretty nervous about the people (I hope my group will be nice, what if they aren't? What if I'm useless compared to what they already know?) But, luckily it was totally pointless to stress. My group seems to be really nice and we already had fun today. Every student is from such a different area of expertise that it's really surprising to see how that knowledge can be combined to make new and interesting concepts. I'm really looking forward to these weeks.
About the project so far:
Calligraphy seemed like a wonderful subject for a project. Even though it might seem weird for an interaction designer to even consider calligraphy, it doesn't mean that it isn't useful. I'm still not entirely sure where this theme will be taking us but it did make me curious.
The mindmap making was fun. Maybe we're being to careful now, but I think our group really works. There's a nice atmosphere when we're together and I think we can make something to be proud of at the end of the Summer School.
When there's more interesting stuff to tell I will post more. For now ... enjoy the summerschool and I'll see you all later!
P.S. day two... photocount 352.
Pictures will be added in future blogposts I think/hope.
No there is tons of work yet to do, actually all of it. But what a start it has been.
The trip to Istanbul was long but pleasant nonetheless. The closer we got to the hotel the more nervous I became. But that's pretty normal for me. I can safely say now though, that this is going to be a wonderful experience. The hotel is ok and Istanbul is really impressive (and I haven't seen a lot of it, actually almost none of it or so it seemed today, cruising the Bosporus).
The people are wonderful. The other students seem really interesting and they are eager to learn. All four countries have brought a group that's willing to work and at the same time have a great time in a new, fresh environment with new and fresh people. And the teachers/professors are intersting people too (theater backgrounds, enthousiastic attitude). I really get the idea they actually want to teach us and inspire us, instead of just being there for feedback and guidance.
I was pretty nervous about the people (I hope my group will be nice, what if they aren't? What if I'm useless compared to what they already know?) But, luckily it was totally pointless to stress. My group seems to be really nice and we already had fun today. Every student is from such a different area of expertise that it's really surprising to see how that knowledge can be combined to make new and interesting concepts. I'm really looking forward to these weeks.
About the project so far:
Calligraphy seemed like a wonderful subject for a project. Even though it might seem weird for an interaction designer to even consider calligraphy, it doesn't mean that it isn't useful. I'm still not entirely sure where this theme will be taking us but it did make me curious.
The mindmap making was fun. Maybe we're being to careful now, but I think our group really works. There's a nice atmosphere when we're together and I think we can make something to be proud of at the end of the Summer School.
When there's more interesting stuff to tell I will post more. For now ... enjoy the summerschool and I'll see you all later!
P.S. day two... photocount 352.
Pictures will be added in future blogposts I think/hope.
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