Due October 31

Browse all of the media design projects listed below. These projects are provocations, illuminating different trajectories of work that you might follow for the remainder of the term—in sensibility if not in technical execution. Choose one that relates to the work you have already done in experiment 3 or where you would like to take that work next. Then find a second project on your own. Your second provocation can come from any realm of design. It should resonate with the first project but also illustrate your own personal interests. Compose a short 400-500 word post for each precedent. Make use of media and links to online materials where it is useful. Divide each post into three distinct sections and label these sections:

 

Formal/Aesthetic: Describe the compositional and experiential qualities of the project.

Socio/Technical: Trace the network of actors (human + non-human) that enable the project to function.

Cultural/Political: Explain the broader context in which the project takes on meaning for you and others.

 

Add your posts to the joint project entitled “Provocations”

 

Provocations:

The Brooklyn Pigeon Project: http://nowurbanism.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/the-brooklyn-pigeon-project/

Feral Robotic Dogs: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/

Bear 71: http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71

All Streets: http://fathom.info/allstreets/

Million Dollar Block: http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects.php?id=16

Amphibious Architecture: http://vimeo.com/6984048

John Snow’s Chart of Deaths from Cholera: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|001966161

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOkQE7m31Pw

The Nine Eyes: http://9-eyes.com/

Welcome to Pinepoint: http://pinepoint.nfb.ca/#/pinepoint

Bansky: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/24/172815000/auction-halted-of-banksy-mural-removed-in-london

The New Aesthetic: http://www.webdirections.org/resources/james-bridle-waving-at-the-machines/

Trash Track: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

Extreme Commuters: http://www.surfacecities.com/proj_08.html

Ghost Bird: http://ghostbirdmovie.com/

The View from the Road: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?q=ex-Everything-1.0:%22view%20from%20the%20road%22+author:%22lynch,%20kevin%22+

Monochrome Landscapes: http://www.l00k.org/monochromelandscapes/monochrome-landscapes

Whale Hunt: http://thewhalehunt.org/whalehunt.html