Planning and Schedule
After honing in on the idea more closely, I prepared a tentative schedule for the semester, which looks at leaving the last two weeks for documentation and submitting to/looking for open calls.
Conceptualization and Research
Recently I have been interested in how technology and architecture tend to isolate us from what is directly around us. The concept of inside and outside is firmly defined by the boundaries architecture creates and the selective physical, cultural and social permeability cristallized in them. In the words of Peter Sloterdijk, modern day apartments are world-islands, "They form a self-insulating, dynamic system reminiscent of a human incubator."( Harvard Design Magazine, S/S 2009 )
I question whether we can design technologies that can trick these boundaries, like viruses trick the membranes of our cells, creating a specific connection between outside and inside, and proposing a recontextualizing experience that can realistically exist and persist "inside" without completely eroding it. This is something I explored together with Audrey Oh last semester.
At this time, I am looking to explore this from the lens of weather and wind. In "The Secret World of Weather", Tristan Gooley explains how "Wind direction is the needle on the weather-engine gauge. If we stay tuned to it, it will warn us of change before it hits us". The strong contextualizing potential of this one indicator lends itself to being brought "inside".