Pressure Project 1 – Due Wednesday Sept 9th.

Pressure Project #1: A Utopian/Dystopian EMS

Due Tuesday September

1. The Intervention

Time limit: 24-36 hours (From beginning to end –no more than 4-5 hrs of actual work.)

Specific resources needed for this project: Pen and paper; or equivalent.

Required Achievements:

Get Started: Go to a public place of your own choice during a period of high traffic. Choose and area of where you observe congestion. Evaluate both the nature of the congestion and how the physical environment/architecture exists in context to the congestion.

Note: Make note of all key findings and observations concerning the nature and being of your chosen area and the interactions that occur there. Note any existing technology that already exists in the area.

Map: Create a top down diagram of your chosen space. Notate the traffic patterns and congestions that occur during times of high traffic. Diagram any already existing technology in the space.

Devise: Based on your observations devise an interventaionary EMS. Your intervention may be benevolent or malevolent. Diagram your design as completely as possible.

Remember, a pressure project should take no longer than a few hours to complete nor do you need any preparation.  It is a project designed to allow maximum creativity without the expectation of investing in a polished product.  That being said, laziness is not rewarded.

Deliver: Please create a Post that is your name: (http://recluse.accad.ohio-state.edu/ems/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category)

Create a new post that has been categorized under your name.

Share your final materials (media and text) explaining and presenting your response to this project.

This pressure project is: Pass / Fail

The Readings For Next week (Dupe of Sept 1 post.)

Please read these!

Interactive Dramaturges Chapter 3

Preview of “Baudrillard Short Introduction”

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