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The We Need 1000 Euro Project.
I had the urge to wright a kind of reflection on the project. Because it had a complete different outcome then what I was suspecting from the assignment. We started out with a motivated group and everybody was really up for it. We launched the website and everything went well. Only in the money wasn’t coming in. We had did a couple of small assignments for people like the driving service and the rent a designer. I called in a meeting to talk about it and although several messages on Facebook, all the meetings we had were with 4 people. instead of 8. A couple of us tried to save the assignment and were coming up with other ideas to get the 1000 euro. I started my personal project te sell surprise presents on the website. But most of the group members lost there motivation I guess. We tried to contact them. But they didn’t respond. In the end I really feel a bit annoyed that we failed to get the 1000 euro’s. Tuesday I will present my personal project in the 1000 euro assignment and a new project i’m working on with Tijnke. I’ts gonna be a kind of reflection on the whole 1000 euro project. (and the chair is a lamp, and lamp is a chair project)
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Design surprise present!!
On student affairs i’m gonna make a post with a special design related surprise present! I will tell them that there is design related stuff in there like tools and material. probably something we could all use. The amount of the products in there is around 15 euro’s. They could start bitting at 2 euro’s
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A honest surprise present!!
For the website I made a GIF to put it up. On the www.weneed1000euro.com website we are gonna give people the chance to pay an amount what they would like to give for the surprise present. The information they are getting is the estimated price of the products that are in the present. We would start a openings offer of 2 euro’s after that the people could decide there selfs what the will pay for the present!
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Surprise boxes
For the ‘we need 1000 euro’ project I was looking for a personal assignment in the project. And after a meeting yesterday my group members decided that I could work on the surprise boxes.
I wanna see if there are other options to spend your money than normally. I’m fascinated about the fact that in some sort of way we all wanna spend our money on things that are having value. But in the same time we are also throwing our spare money in ponds for luck. I wanna make boxes, with objects in it with not a lot of value. By being honest about the value of the boxes I wanna see if people are willing to spend money on the surprise and not on the value of the boxes.
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glow in the dark
I had a talk with Allard and Pepijn about the use of Glow in the dark paint. Allard told me that the paint would only give a glow and wouldn’t be a light. It will only give a kind of atmosphere in the room and would last that long. (because it has to charge during the day) So i decided to use LED and place them underneath the sitting of the chair. I’m going to buy some LED right away and attach them to the chair. Tomorrow and this weekend i’m gonna test.
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finding the archetype of a chair.
For the project a chair is a lamp and a lamp is a chair. I asked around 20 people. To draw a chair with in the time limit of 10 seconds. In this way i’m trying to find out what the real archetype of a chair is. Later on I wanna use this information for the design of my chair.
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QUESTIONS
- How will you show your insights at the final presentation? [See objectives below].
- How you have combined the accumulated knowledge of this entire semester into a comprehensive view on alternative interactions;
Al of the knowledge I gathered this semester is coming to gather in the We Need 1000 euro assignment. With the website we have to interact with the people non verbal. and with the event we are planning we can buil the objects and trigger people the spend there money in another way that they would normally do. hacking interactions!
- How your insights are translated and applied on human interactions.
I think I can translate the interaction with humans better in the group assignment. Are people willing to pay money for weird services. And interact with the way people normally spend their money. I could test the interaction with humans in the chair. But this would be more about the placement in the room, but also the placement between the object and the user.
- What are you planning to do the next two weeks?
In the next 2 weeks i’m gonna work on 2 assignments. The group assignment We Need 1000 Euro and my personal assignment ‘chair is a lamp and a lamp is a chair’.
- How will you test your interaction ideas on people outside the academy?
I’m gonna test the interaction of the chair. I was fascinated by archetypes of furniture and was wondering why is a chair always a kind of the same shape. Sure I do understand that 9 out of 10 times it is functional. But what if I could make a chair that has an archetypical shape of a chair. But it’s also a lamp. Would this interact with the way people are using the chair?
Normally a chair is standing at a table or behind a desk. But if this piece of furniture also has another function. Why does it have to stand at a desk? maybe it’s easier to place it in the middle of the room or at the sides, were you normally place a lamp.
This is what I want to test. I’m thinking about finding 3/4 different test subjects and ask them if the want to use the chair for 24 hours. I will ask them if I could put a go pro in the room for a couple of hours. Or making photos every 10 min or something. to find out how the people would interact with the chair.
Are there differences during the day, then at night?
- How would you assess yourself? What are your criteria?
How to asses myself is a very hard question for me. I know I challenged myself in this minor and learned a lot about interactions. If I look at my tumblr it really is a kind if diary of the semester. And I also felt like it was handy and not something I had to do for the teachers or something. I also switched my focus this semester to really keep it in school and not work to much on other things and this payed of in the end I guess.
If I have to say how to asses myself I would say that I tried everything this semester sometimes with a good outcome and sometimes with a bad one. But I never gave up and this is something you could see in all the assignments.
- Which project do you want us to assess in more detail?
The future project. In the beginning I was struggling a bit with the assignment. But when I chose to make a critical design everything turned around and in the end this was one of the assignments I also liked the most.
- What have been your challenges this semester?
To be honest I got challenged in almost every assignment. But the biggest challenge for me this last semester was the board game. I started out the assignment together with Jim Brady. (because I knew that Jim was quitte good in electronics and arduino and I’m not haha) then I tried to work with Diego. But he also had to leave. So I decided to do it on my own. Although my electronics are not really next level. It was something I really had the feeling a managed to do. Also the emotions of the game and how it could interact with the other players is really something I’m proud of. I know for shore that I would have never come up with this interaction without the minor!
- Where have you grown most?
In the end I’ve grown the most in the ‘don’t doubt, just do it’ mentality. I do have a feeling now that last year at LAB I made a kind of start in this mentality. But to work on a different assignment every six weeks for the last semester was really forcing me not to doubt to long but just start. I maybe made some mistakes but I can see now, because of this mistakes, I could have made the final products.
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Started working on my chair today. I’m gonna finish it tomorrow. But I couldn’t take pictures of the proces because my battery was down. So I took some print screen from the sketch up file of the chair im making.
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I was thinking. If I can finish one chair tomorrow and test it this week. I can try to make different pieces of furniture with a double function and have more tests with another meaning. Maybe I could mix the paint with concrete and make other objects out of it.
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Chair or lamp?
I sketched some chairs and gonna start building one tomorrow. I could easily make these chairs out of wood and impregnate them with the glow and the dark paint.
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