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#Darendo #Seminar #Forum #offenerdiskurs mit #paulavanbrummelen @abkstuttgart #responsivesurfaces #Relevanz #ergebnisoffenesgestalten (hier: State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart)

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Gast: Paula van Brummelen (Berlin) MA Textil- & Flächendesignerin - Experimentelle Materialforschung

Workshop + Diskurs: 23.11.17

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(4/19) Homage to Nights' Sleep Lost

is what I call this setup.

 Found some cute metal bowls at the WayOne grocery, score. And then, well opportunity and sleep deprivation struck with the idea of using bottles as stands. Might not be so stable... will have to glue them down maybe. It'll be a long night in the dude... 

The arduino photo on the right is proof everything still worked after I soldered stuff together. Graduated from the breadboard on the first try! 

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saw this cool wishing well that one of the Taubman fellows, Clark Thenhaus had displayed in the gallery space. There were a bunch of these spaceship-looking "non-urban"objects. They also remind me (now you can tell I'm from the country!) of cow udders.

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Thinking through forms to simulate water. I won't have water flowing in the fountain for this demo, although that would be really cool. But I'll have some stylistic fountain plumes. These images demonstrate the kind of aesthetic I was going for, especially the fire-esque plumes. But since it needs to be laser cuttable, mine (at the bottom) is really simple.

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(4/9) Project Journal - capturing audio

How do I get rid of the computer! For my project, I need a microphone and speakers. But how do I make microphones small enough to fit somewhere in a fountain?? I looked up electret microphones, DL1 has some, but apparently these are only good for sound detection not actual audio capture. The sampling rate is not high enough. To take audio input I need an actual audio board to attach to the arduino. *sigh* not enough time for that, plus it doesn't solve my penny problem. I want ppl to talk into the pennies!

another possible audio direction to check out:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Audio-Input/ Code To do: link pennysense to microphones Think about bowls & penny holders for the fountain      - something conductive...

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(3/31) Thoughts on provocation

Architects have this word they like to use: "provocation"

As Malcom put it in class, during his response to the critiques (paraphrasing):  The point of architecture is making a proposition - something cultural and cognitively resonant.

I think my resounding concept is shared memory. 

Another introspective design question Malcolm asked: "Am I making something people can live with habitually?"

I think a fountain is something pretty livable. They're historically places of meditation, reflection, relaxation, refreshing, renewal. Water, moving or still, is very emotive for humans. Especially if its clean.

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Whirlwind of Activity!

The last couple weeks have been busy, but ultimately successful! I kept a local project journal on Evernote, so here is a backdated copy of entries and thoughts over the time.