Sensing life

My group worked upon the experience of the cockroach as it may navigate its way around the room, asking the viewer to use senses beyond immediate sight . We hoisted our experience tunnel to head level which was both disorientating to the users but also removed the sense of security found when crawling blindfolded. 
We wanted to explore how we might 'sense' our way through the world, something which is a strong theme in my own context work. I am very interested in how we perceive our environments, both built and emotional, and also how our views are created and shaped through innate and cognitive theory.


I am looking  into memory and perception and I find that there is a crossover here, as we were asking the viewer to go against everything that is learned in "seeing" and as a result the experience was multi faceted. Whilst the experience was new, it relied upon the construction of themselves as individuals, and the memories which have shaped them, in order to process and understand the experience, or in many ways be able to experience the things which they were exposed to. 





Vita

Response to Sam

Hey Sam,

I will think about if for you...I'm not too sure.

I'm taking from our "gigantic dress up thingy" that to bring that
into my castings. Almost in a child like way, how a child interacts
with large objects but still can. Not in a comical way that is stupid
but just in the extreme part of the anthropomorphic scale; extreme
design.

If that makes sense.

EG a spoon that is still usable but is just a slightly bit larger.

Peace Out
Stephen

Our Cockroachgroup focused on the Oriental Cockroach, because it is the only cockroach, which carries her eggs (between 16 and 18) in a case for 30 hours. It has a very protected surface. So, we created the concept of the "Super Mom".

In our scenario the mankind will die because an atomic war and the cockroaches become bigger and superintelligent. So, the female cockroach creates a more comfortable and more protective bag for her eggs. She will just use two arms for going shopping or fighting against enemies. The other 4 arms are busy with the eggs. If she is tired, she can sit inside the bag, so it´s also a protection place for her.

Hi All,
unfortunately i didn't take any photos from the cockroach day,( although Ciara did so i am sure that they will be posted) Stephen I know you saw it, but for the others, we approached the project by picking a quality of the cockroach that we were interested in,
in this case it was vision,as seen through a compound eye. We showed this visually by creating a series of filters that could be worn. For our presentation we filmed through the camcorder using the filters and projected this image into a 'cockroach den' that we had built. The viewer was invited to enter the den, watch the projection and then interact with the experience by wearing the filters, listen to white-noise and try to navigate the den. The feedback that we received was that the experience was disorientating, and the participants seemed to enjoy the interaction.
I was wondering if any of you have had any thoughts of how we can use the experience of this day to inform our mini briefs, could it be in the form of presentation? or the ability to create things with low-tec materials ? for me, I rally enjoyed exploring an idea and presenting it fully in a variety of ways.

some more pictures from the very first beginning

It's a really hard day, but finally have done a work !

Mieta you are a really amazing model :)