Fragility of Life
2024
Assignment: Design an embodied experience with a self-determined experience goal in a specific context based on research and insights from your design theme.

We had to work in a group of five people. We had to choose a "non-human"; this could be any non-living thing. We had to get an "understanding" of this non-human.
We chose a dinner plate and decided to make the fragility of the plate the essence of the experience. The fragility of the plates represents the fragility of words, of life. We wanted to show how much we can hurt each other with words only. One of my group members and I worked on the technology (the coding). I designed the mechanism of the hooks that are attached to the plates, so after falling, we could hang new plates on them. We coded with Max/MSP.

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Fragility of Life
Max-MSP 8Bit
Plates
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