frank

..have a closer look at phase 3!
thanks

JuLEs' deSiGn proPosAl

To start, but where?

sooooo hard and too much time, trying not to wait for the last seconds.

Design proposal: Phase IV,

The aim is to deliver a experience that is to engage and manipulate the senses of the recipients. The strings are to be pulled in a precise manner and to deliver a time delayed cryptic message.

The investigation is to deliver an experience of the sense that is either severed or the affirmation of Synaesthesia. Not to sure on the how but the why well, is the lack of/ suppression of emotions we experience and endure frame by frame of each day. Observation of others shows this on an enormous level. Though self investigation is difficult.


Outcome: severed Senses
Experiments: Observational [filming and photography]
Location: remote, obscure, busy, common.
guidelines: Touch [thermal, ambient. Temp]
Smell [ Pungent, Linger, overwhelming, sharp, soothing]
Sound [Harmonic, Disjointed, manipulated, uncomfortable]
Visual [Deprivation, Confusion, Eccentric, deceptive and Confronting]
Miscellaneous,
Trolleys, elastic bands(the red-type), Lights, Darkness, People.

damiencunningham Imaginationencirclestheworld


I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein, (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate

What really interests me about this class is the confusion i saw behind it. However where there is chaos, also comes clarity. The class subject involves a condition known as Synaesthesia where basic human senses naturally and uncontrollably cross over. However the design outcome has nothing really to do with the condition because no one in the class is a synaesthete.

I have chosen to investigate eating and drinking and how its not just about taste. Like drinking a fine wine out of a polystyrene cup. The psychological and psysiological factors contribute to the immediate experience in that the shape of the cup will affect the perceived smell and flavour of the wine, and the material of the cup will affect how it feels on your hands and lips.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates, (470 BC - 399BC) Ancient Greek Philosopher

I know very little about wine. In fact i know next to nothing when it come to appreciating wine. I have learned to appreciate the things I don't understand more than those I do. I recently realised that whenever i was presented with an opinion on topics which i was unfamiliar, I would unknowingly find myself attempting to argue against that opinion for the sake of stimulating ideas and knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The wine experience is one however, which requires the art of tongue and expression. An art which is very difficult to forge.

Im not like them, but I can pretend.

Kurt Cobain.

In order to do this i must investigate deeply into wine and all of its qualities, not just its sensation, but its wisdom and truth.
I wish to create a wine experience beyond any articulate bullshit said about a wines flavour and its sensation on one's palette.
The design path i have chosen in this class is one that interests me, as it steps past the expected product based design and has potential for original and thought provoking ideas guided by historic influential philosophy and personal experience as well as investigation through basic supposition. Most of my investigations in to wine may not even require me to drink anything. Through my attempt to eliminate the expected sensations associated with appreciating wine, i may be enlightened to other aspects of the experience.

Almost every second of our living life we are thinking, investigating, solving problems, and using our imagination. However, we live in a dynamic environment where sensory overload can cloud our imagination. During our first years of living we have the ability to learn and absorb must faster and more efficiently due to our hightened senses, impeccible imagination and unblemished mind. One of our greatest tools to discovering the world and its possibilites are our senses. It is our imagination which senses the impossible, and will never hesitate.


The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unkown.

Albert Einstein.