#testproject

[rheagodlywrites]

Awaken, Monster

A test project. A shapeshifter loses their memory and tries to piece together fragments of their memory as they live a life that isn’t theirs.

I open my eyes to a plain room. The sound of beeping ringing in my ears as I slowly sit up on the soft surface. I look around and frown as I don't quite remember where I am. I look down at my hands and glance at the window reflecting my image. My body looks like an awkward patch job. Different parts of random people were all over me. Half of my face was pale as porcelain and the other half was dark brown. My eyes were blue and brown on the wrong sides. I had puffy black curly hair and straight red hair. My hands had different shades of skin tone and the same for my legs and feet. Only thing I could remember was that I was a shapeshifter, but nothing about who I was or who I could've been.

"Who am I?" I asked. The room had a slight echo from the silence that broke. I tear myself from the thing that was attached to me. It hurt a whole lot, I started to leak something but it disappeared after a few moments. I grab something that sat on a table nearby. A small square piece of paper fell out so I picked it up.

Hey, Ava!

I left some clothes for you when you wake up. I've handled all the paperwork and stuff so don't worry about the hospital when you leave.

- Damian

I toss the paper and put on the clothes. It was simple. Red top with black pants and red shoes. I look at the paper on the end of the bed and read the file. There was a picture of me on the thing. I look at my hands and see that my body is changing to the photo. Curly brown hair, brown eyes, sun kissed skin and white spots in random places. I open the door and step out of the room. The hospital had a quiet business to it. People sat in chairs, some in rooms and if you listened closely then you could hear the sound of faint crying in one of the rooms. I walked out of the hospital and looked around. The world outside of the hospital was loud. I turn, looking around, only to hear things fall onto the ground. Picking it up, I noticed that it opened up. Another picture of Ava..well me!

But WHO exactly is that?

[rrgmspatial4]

Test Project - Mediating Daylight Testing

For this test I was testing ways in which I could mediate the light in a biophilic way.

I came up with the idea of creating a kind of greenery ‘curtain’, that could hang in front of the exterior of the window. For this test, I had to use a different window than my chosen one, as the overhang of the roof is easily accessible to hang my greenery curtain.

Close up of my mediating method.

Fortunately it was a windy day, so I was able to get a lot of natural movements within the individual leaves and curtain as a whole. It was hung on a hook, so it was able to move freely.

Reflections on the interior from the mediating method I created. I found the because the wind was creating movement, it was really organic and non-repetitive or robotic. I definitely find that the combined biophilic patterns and movements has a calming effect on my mind and body!

I feel that creating a mediating device on the exterior works to my advantage, as it is exposed to all the natural weather elements, creating really fluid and dynamic reflections.

I do feel that the greenery ‘curtain’ was slightly too thick and obscured a bit more light than I would have liked. Moving forward I will take this learning into consideration when designing the mediating tool.

Following this post, will be some videos of the ‘curtain’ in action.

[emmaspatial400]

TEST PROJECT IDEA 2?

Finding myself drawn back this idea of installation design. Can still incorporate strands of a narrative/ speculative ideas within this. Started sketching a storyboard about the user journey and experience. At this stage the installation is a chance to get in touch with the strangers within us and to meet our microbiome through our bacterial fingerprint??? Not sure about the process of this YET but am wanting to explore this through bacterial growth processes and even incorporating the process of growing bacteria- how can I pinpoint moments in that process and test to apply to the journey and functionality of this experience in the installation?

[emmaspatial400]

TEST PROJECT BRAINSTORM

TEST PROJECT- Speculative narratives-

making the invisible, visible, BUT through a narrative, paralell universe, the genetic and microbiological code is different where whatever any living creature touches, you can see the bacterial trace instantly, things shift and change, combine together, can sometimes disintergrate- posthuman, acknowledging everything living thing, but not their prescence, but by their trace, and how different traces can interconnect, grow something new...

An micro outbreak, contamination of the city, spreading, air pollution like an agar sollution, causing bacteria to visibily grow everywhere. -dna code,

Show the spatial manifestation through zooming into parts of wellington city- urban, domestic, living spaces, rituals,

everything looks similar, or close to the same, but the bacterial growth is visible, grows and shifts through time with its certain encounters with other strange,

spatial manifestation of bacteria through a narrative environment that responds to ecological, environmental and political crisis, and posthuman philosophy.

VISUALISES MY RESEARCH CONTEXT

CREATING A NARRATIVE/SPECULATIVE RESPONSE TO MY RESEARCH AGENDA TO CONTEXTUALISE THE SPATIAL MANIFESTATION -waste -climate change- environmental

ANNIHILATION

RELATION BACK TO CLIMATE CHANGE, BACTERIAL RESISTANCE- ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE,

[livs400]

Test Project

The beginning stages of my test project. I am wanting to explore our relationship between body and materiality within the domestic home. Can I form more memorable experiences within the home to create a more memorable relationship with the home? 

[rrgmspatial4]

Test Project - Intervention Idea

After testing with the glass and coming across the previous precedent. I had this idea of putting either a singular or multiple glass panels on the exterior of the window. The panels (if there were multiple) could be located above, below or beside the window. Having panels protruding out of the exterior could take up a lot of space. So if the panels were sunlit activated and only rotated out when the sunlight was shining on them, then they could only be in use when needed, as the sun moves directions throughout the day.

Not only will the whole panel be sunlit activated, but the mediation and movement aspects inside the panel would be too. For example, the elements inside the panel would be static until activated by the sunlight and then the movement would start.

[rrgmspatial4]

Test Project - Maximising the Light

A video capturing the movement in the reflected light from the glass pane.

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Test Project - Maximising Daylight Testing

For this test, I am experimenting with a reflective surface on the interior, to see if the surface will help to project more light into the inside space.

A sketch of what I imagine the test to look like:

For this test, I am going to be using a pane of glass, placing it on the wall adjacent to the window, where I know the sunlight makes contact.

Questions I have going into this test:

Will the light reflected off if the glass be bright enough?

Is glass a suitable surface to have on the interior?

The specific window I am using has greenery outside, so I am able to get some projections of biophilic movements. However, when designing my intervention. I will assume that biophilic movements will need to be created.

Before the window was exposed to direct sunlight.

Adding the glass pane on the adjacent wall to the window.

Capturing exterior reflections on the glass.

Various reflections of light from the glass pane as the sunlight moved.

Answering my questions from before the test; I think that yes, the light reflected off of the interior glass is bright enough. However, another solution would be needed to maximise these reflections even more. I found that while the glass pane did create a decent sized reflection. It was only reflected onto one other wall, rather than projecting it further into the room. Having glass adjacent to the window, would only really be ideal when the window is right next to another wall. If the window is located in the middle of the wall, the glass surfaces may need to protrude out of that wall and into the interior space - inconvenient?