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Nicole Del Senno
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Sep 20
Week 3 Readings
Why We Need Things, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi With our own evolution comes an “increasing dependence on objects for survival and comfort” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1993). In this essay the author presents objects, which we often don’t even think about, as being dangerous. Although they are man-made, they are not necessarily under our control. They begin to take on …
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Sep 20
Day 7: 7-in-7
Day 7 (Yayyyy!): Digi-Wallet On this last day I was thinking of all the food and coffee that I buy in the city, and a possible way to map my spending. I came up with a digital wallet prototype that would tell you the amount of money you spent that day, and the amount remaining. …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire 3
Singing Car This was a project that immediately grabbed my attention and I just had to put it on here. It is taking the traditional interface of an object we use everyday and putting a spin on it, changing its purpose. I thought it was a good example of how we can start thinking about …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire 2
Vertical Theory Another project I was not surprisingly intrigued by was vertical farming. Coming from a landscape architecture background, vertical farming was an idea that would constantly pop up time and time again. There will come a point in time where this will be absolutely necessary – with the growing human population food is becoming …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire 1
Handy Chair I found these to be interesting interfaces because the purpose is to create safe, functional, low-cost vehicles to promote wheelchair user dependence. There was a sign that said something like, “we will all end up in a wheelchair someday,” which I do not necessarily agree with but the fact is many people do. …
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Sep 19
Day 6: 7-in-7
recording1 Day 6: Sound I continued with my theme of mapping, and since my day mostly consisted of maker faire I decided to capture the sounds that I heard there as my mapping project for this day. This is something unconventional for me since I have never really played around with sound before, and it …
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Sep 18
Day 5: 7-in-7
Day 5: Lines of Emotion Since I did not have a commute to map today, I decided to focus on the majority of my day, which consisted of shopping. I tried to think of what was most prominent during this experience, and I realized it was probably the mix of emotions I had throughout the …
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Sep 17
Day 4: 7-in-7
HandMap My constraints again were unconventional mapping and using one line as the basis for my projects. I decided on my commute today to map my hand (basically everything I touched on my commute). The size of the objects corresponds to the frequency in which I touched the object. For instance, my phone was in …
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Sep 16
Day 3: 7-in-7
For the third day I continued with my theme of mapping, this time by mapping motion. I tried to act as sort of a human seismograph, holding a pen on a piece of paper during certain parts of my commute- when I was walking, riding the subway, riding the railroad, and as a passenger in …
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Sep 15
Day 2: 7-in-7
Day 2: 7-in-7 I continued with my mapping theme, this time using an actual representation of my commute rather than how I perceive it (as I represented yesterday). I again used one line as a constraint, trying as best as possible to make the images flow together. I wanted to highlight the stark transition from …
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