Thesis I Presentation
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This document summarizes Marina Brant's MS thesis from Pratt Institute on using design to promote human connection. It discusses how digital technology is isolating and the goal of using human-centered design to create analog experiences that stimulate participation and interaction. The research covers post-digital, interaction design and participatory design approaches. Case studies show how installations translate digital to physical or analog media to involve people. The thesis proposes creating an installation in a public space that invites collaborative interaction through analog tools or translating digital attributes into a tactile library collection co-created by an audience.
Thesis I Presentation
- 1. (re) CONNECt Marina Brant . MS in Communications Design . Prof. David Frisco . Pratt Institute . Fall 2012
- 2. PROBLEM Digital technology is increasingly influencing our every day lives. At a time when so much attention goes towards its development and use, it is important to emphasize the physical world, especially in the big cities, where people tend to have more individualized interests, and human connections seem to be left behind.
- 3. CONCEPTS CONTEXT • Post-Digital INVESTIGATION • Human-centered • Interaction • Participation • Co-creation • Performance • Involvement • Engagement • Multidisciplinary • Multisensory / Tangibility
- 4. HYPOTHESIS The post-digital era introduces new perspectives to digital technology, dissipating it from focus and moving efforts to more humanized aims. Design practice also evolves around thoughtful and systematic solutions for society. Considering this context and perspectives from overlapping design approaches – including Participatory Design and Interaction Design – this thesis presents the hypothesis that Communications Design can provoke involvement and social engagement. Using a human-centered design, I propose to recontextualize forms of digital interaction to develop an analogue experience that stimulates co-creation, brings awareness to the body, and highlights the importance of human interactions.
- 6. Research POST-DIGITAL Post digital Participatory Design Interaction Design ANALOGUE DIGITAL • response to digital wave • human-centered approach • deeper experiences in physical objects • new perspectives to digital technology: natural intuitive hybrid
- 7. RESEARCH Post digital Interactivity is an essential feature of INTERACTION Design human-being: a chat, a kiss, a dance, a work of art are all modes of interaction. PARTICIPATORY Design Dan Boyarski • Primarily thought of in the digital realm • Has basic principles focus on human communication • Considers broad aspects of interaction • Human-centered approach • Integrates multidisciplinary perspectives • Uses digital and/or analogue media • The “user” influences final outcomes
- 8. RESEARCH Post digital “Participation” in Participatory Design means to Interaction Design investigate, reflect upon, understand, establish, develop, and support mutual learning processes Participatory Design as they unfold between participants in collective “reflection-in-action” during the design process. Toni Robertson and Jesper Simonsen • People as partners, involved on the process as partners • Began with civil rights movements • Pioneered in Scandinavia to transform the workplace • Applied as methodology by other design areas • Aims the designed pieces to meet needs and be usable
- 9. CASE STUDY: PHYSICAL DIGITAL MEDIA SIX-FORTY BY FOUR-EIGHTY (By Zigelbaum + Coelho, united States) • Interactive digital installation • Digital to physical
- 10. CASE STUDY: PHYSICAL ANALOGUE MEDIA APPEEL (By TeGreenEyl, GERMANY) • Interactive analogue installation • Digital to analogue • Collective result
- 11. CASE STUDY: PHYSICAL ANALOGUE MEDIA drawing machine #1 - to your hearts content (By joseph l griffiths, Australia) • Interactive analogue installation • Primitive technology • Collective result
- 12. CASE STUDY: DIgital to analogue Vista Sans Wood Type Project (By Tricia Treacy & Ashley John Pigford, United States) • Digital/analogue dialogue • Hybrid media • Collaborative result
- 13. CASE STUDY: DIgital to analogue Handmade visualization tool-kit (By JOSE DUARTE, colombia) • Digital/analogue dialogue • Participative results
- 14. SYNTHESIS By analysing the Post-Digital domains and principles of Interaction and Participatory Design, my research validates the importance of a human-centered process in the contemporary DIGITAL design context. INTERACTION ANALOGUE Taking this scenario EXPERIENCE further, I propose to recontextualize forms of digital interaction into an analogue experience, in order to assess the communicative potential of the media. Its intrinsic physicality can highlight the role of real environments and the importance of human-interactions.
- 15. DIRECTIONS 1 Create an installation piece in a public environment that invites people to collaboratively interact, by providing analogue tools to complete the design. analogue EXPERIENCE that stimulates participation and human- 2 interaction Develop an interactive piece that translates intangible digital attributes into tactile qualities, stimulating the audience in the co-creation of a tangible library collection that could result in an exhibit.
- 16. THANK YOU! Marina Brant Fall 2012 Grad. CommD. Pratt Institute