Rapid Prototype Session 2

Future projects that MAY or MAY NOT be made

TTY

Today's pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XpubProjectThatMayorMayNot

Pad from last Methods session: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/RPG23

Outcome:

1) Brief text outlining a future project that MAY or MAY NOT be made and

2) three entries to the RPD .

11:00-13:00

Following introduction by Steve and a discussion about current state of play with the Special Issue:

11:15

In 4 groups of 1

Outline a project you would like to make.

What will it be? (Three sentences max)

Why do you want to make it? (Three sentences max)

Describe how it would be made: describe the stages needed to make it (Four sentences max)

Make a timetable for the project

12:30 Give feedback on each other's outlines (meet as one group)

Note: please make the outline as practical as possible; please avoid specialist terms and theoretical terms.

13:00

LUNCH

14:00- 16:00

Make three new entries to the RPD (30 mins for each). Allow these “rapid prototypes” to make a gesture in the direction of your outline for a future project that MAY OR MAY NOT GET MADE (they could be drawings, brief script, photos, mock ups, maquettes, collage, code &c).

16:00

Upload text and Rapid prototypes onto this page. Group reviews future project that MAY or MAY NOT be made in one group.

Boyana

What?

Collective Breakfast Memoir: a (snackable) publication about breakfasts people had in the last week. Why do you want to make it? (Three sentences max)

Why Make it?

To work with memory as a tool that evokes memories of taste and/or instances of conversations around food people (participants) had recently.

Workflow

Simple web page where participants can make an entry of their weekly breakfasts (in case they hadn't had breakfast they'd be invited to share some food for thought). Paged.js will help us turn all web entries into a printable publication.

Timetable

1 day build the website:

   - html structure
   - flask? form for input (text, (+ optional) images)
   - css, style the webpage
   - paged.js, turn web content into printable pdf

1h share the website with people and invite them to join 1 week collect stories 1h design book cover? 2h print the publication 2-3h share + send the printed publications to participants (and not only) turn it into weekly release?

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Boyana # 2

What?

Audio piece made by a group of people.

1. Imagine yourself (or your entire body) as a walking auditory organ, like a human ear, that examines the sound of silence. The "ear' listens to the surrounding environment. The ear is deaf to noise and can only hear (resonate with) silent situations, whatever that could be.

2. Record an audio piece that is a collection of various sounds

3. recorded or send by me and other participants

4. I write a short poem (haiku, or 3-5 lines at max) that describes the soundscape depicted in the audio piece.

Why make it?

I am often inspired by listening. The project is about the act of improvising; I wanted to combine sound and poetry. Presents a method for sound mixing and writing. It is an Invitation for people to join and collaborate on this silent exploration of our daily situations. The act of improvising, the act of composing poetry or music extemporaneously.

Workflow

1: Write an invitation for participation and invite people to join by distributing it both print & web.

2: Spend some time to record sounds and collect sounds from others.

3: Save and listen to all sounds and think of was to combine all of them into one.

4: Once we have the audio piece then we can write a short poem about it. What feelings, scenery and/or emotions it evokes in us. A moment of reflection, turning sounds into words.

Timetable

30 min writing the invitation and give people the option to recieve the sound + audio piece if they want 1h printing/distributing the invitation

1 week collecting sounds

1 day listening to all sounds

2-3 hours curating and combining all sounds into one piece

1 hour writing a short poem about it

Rapid Prototypes

Stephen

What?

Why Make it?

Workflow

Timetable

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Aglaia

What?

Why Make it?

Workflow

Timetable

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Ada

What?

Why Make it?

Workflow

Timetable

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