ETHOS

I am a people watcher and that is why interaction is the focus and drive of my work. I feel over time physical interaction between people has significantly reduced. With Modern culture first closing down the doors of communal living, into our own personal worlds, everything at hands reach; personal computers; personal MP3 players; even to the extent of personal robotic pets. From there the doors began to reopen, but interaction as we knew it refreshed; a middle man is now required, ‘The Device’. I would agree that change and progress is important, but as I see it we are not gaining new skills, we are replacing. them. Physical interaction is comparatively rare to those of ‘the device’, and slowly we are loosing the ability to communicate to our previous level, creating age barriers of those before and after ‘the device’.


During the 3rd stage of ISD course I would like to design events which encourage physical interaction as I feel passionately about creating design for change, with my aims to bring back the community, whether that be through town planning or interventions which provoke a reaction and discussion. I am particularly keen on temporary structures and installations which pop up in busy places, as this opens them up for the ‘everyday’ person to see and often is a catalyst for discussion, inevitably flowing into the device interaction ; the news, networking and photo sharing internet sites, therefore creating a worldwide critic on just one persons vision.


I want to further my understanding of the context of space and abstraction of space, therefore allowing my work to become stronger and enable me to push my passion for creating discussion and physical interaction between young people.

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Thames at 4am Sound Recordings


Sound has become recognised as a medium that can make people question and reflect about many things including their own autobiographical experiences and narratives. As well as how movement and interaction in urban environments is partly influenced by the built environment, and temporal dimensions of the everyday.
Listening to sound whether that may be through field recordings (selected individual pieces of audio) and/or soundscapes (audio compositions created from a range of recordings) sheds light on how sound can both be an investigatory tool and an emotive medium. Stopping and listening can engender an experience(s) making the subconsciously known and mundane a revealing and surreal encounter of the world that we live in. Consequently the ordinary can become the extraordinary
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