Ex-Change Week 5

Today we met in our Ex-Change groups for the second time. We went round the table and showed each other what we had been up to since we had last met. I was able to give helpful comments/critique to the girls who study Fashion and Textiles, but unfortunately for those of us who do VCD and for the boy who does Industrial it felt like there was nothing much we could ask for critique on as we had all handed in this week.

When it got to my turn I showed the group my team's dossier (as the audio on our video was too quiet in the crowed environment) and read them the key points/insights that we had came to. I then reflected on how we thought we had gone for our presentation and hand in and where we are going to go from here. I ended by showing them the ideas that my team and I had come up with during our rapid ideation session in class today and asking whether they could think of any design concepts that might answer our provocation - or if they could think of any exemplars from real life.

One of the girls liked the idea of something that encourages interaction in the form of a game, and she used the example of giant chess in the CBD in Christchurch. I had already thought of this example myself - although the giant chess on a footpath that I have seen is on Stewart Island. I do like the idea of games though; what are some other games that could be turned into something on the street? The same girl also said that she could imagine something that you would have to hit or stomp on to activate, and she suggested I look at examples from Vivid Sydney. Another person suggested that we could force people to stand beside each other or sit next to each other etc, like that chair that was designed at Massey a few years ago where someone had to sit on the bottom seat in order for someone to be able to climb up the ladder and sit on the top, or else the chair would fall over.