Project Diary: Time Travel
What could happen when you wanted to visit another space of the world at different a time?
Topic Exploration
Our Team, made up of Rachel Arredondo, Amrita Khoshoo, Christianne Francovich, and me, had a wide range of topics that we were interested in exploring from manifesting human connection, altering temporality, and changing human behavior. When spending time writing down different ways areas of opportunities to focus on, we found our curiosity peaked around topics of exploring the permanence of time and fostering connectedness.
From these areas of opportunities, we all ideated different items that would explore the permanence of time while fostering human connection through an emotionally durable design.
Ideation
Through our sketches, we engaged different types of materiality and different kinds of physical interactions that could materialize time and engage human connection.
We explored ways we could interact with nature, our reflection, and music through the visualization color and accumulation. Our ideas demonstrate how pushing or touching items and distance from the installation were the most effective ways we engage with time as all of our ideas had variations of similar interactions.
After going through individual ideas and exploring the ideas behind them, our group decided on exploring ideas of time and memory. We were interested in the idea of manipulating time as a way to allow viewers to engage with time and space, and through that engagement, they would have a level of immersion within the other location.
We wanted to see what design could people connect with others through the interaction of time.
Idea Development
As we further explored our interaction, we defined three main features that our installation would reflect:
- We wanted our viewers’' reflection to be overlayed with the visual to past time.
- The interaction of push would engage with time itself.
- Through the minimization of corners of the visual area, we can create a more continuous experience.
As we continue to refine, we will begin testing a smaller version to help with the creation of the final installation.
