I find it fascinating how intertwined our
culture is with our media. Like we discussed last week, culture can influence
media, and media can influence culture. What makes this all so fascinating to
me is that as an art major, I can, in some tiny way or maybe even in a very
widespread way influence culture. How cool is that?!
Julian Bleecker said in Design Fiction, "Design
fictions help tell stories that provoke and raise questions, like props that
help focus the imagination and speculate about possible near future worlds -
whether profound change or simple, even mundane social practices."
This assignment was enlightening because these
design fictions came close to home on this assignment, and we had a lot of fun
with it. LIke Julian said "When something is designed, it suggests that
there is some thoughtful exploration going on." When Mike announced his
pitch for the alternate world of digitally recorded smells, the first thing
that I couldn't help but think of was what if somebody posted a fart on my
Facebook wall. Well there that little idea was, just a little thoughtful
exploration, but when we got together and started with an empty canvas, it
turned into a design.
The slideshow, announcer style we ended up with came from
the Apple Keynote presentations. I always get excited about those, and so I
thought turning it into something similar to that would be helpful to share
that excitement in our fiction design. Unfortunately, shooting on a stage and
finding a projector wasn’t feasible in our time constraints, but that’s how I
imagined it. I am very pleased with our final product though. There are some
really creative things going on. It’s cool to see how it would affect different
things like advertising, social media, legislature, etc.
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