Reflect on at least three takeaways that you learned from creating your project.

1. I learned how to take senses from certain moments and recreate them using a physical model

2. I learned how to use the laser cutter tool.

3. I got better at analyzing and breaking down stories.

Explain what was difficult for you during this process and why.

Personally, the hard part of this project was the beginning. We were doing all these assignments and we were told these would help with our interviews with the residents at the Scandinavian living center. There were 2 which helped with the interview but the rest just seemed like randomly assigned tasks to help fill in the gaps. It was difficult because I needed more time to decide what I really wanted to do with my project and have more time to just brainstorm.

Talk about feedback that you received and how you were able to incorporate that into your process.  

Getting consistent feedback was a struggle. I went to three different teachers hoping they could give me something helpful which they did; however the next teacher contradicted what the previous one had said and so on. I did recieve some good feedback when we had the scandinavian residents come over to see what we had made. The feedback came from teachers that werent part of the project but actually proved incredibly helpful. Unfortunatly by then it was too late to make any changes to our project so if we had a bit more time we could implement those changes. In the end I got good feedback but it was too late to change anything.

Our project to designed for Pat and the part of her life living on a boat in Florida. Pat lived on a egg harbor boat in Florida for 13 years. Because Pat was born in 1939 and lived on the boat from approximately when she was 30, we can deduce that she lived on the boat from circa 1969-1982. An important political event would be Watergate and Nixon's impeachment; however, Pat says she does not recall this event and was certainly not affected by this. Therefore, I researched a few other historical context that might have affected Pat. I learned that 1960-1970 was is a period that Florida government passed a number of laws regarding the preservation of historic sites. For example, in 1966 National Historic Preservation Act passed, also in that year the first State Historic Preservation Officer hired. And in 1971, Museum of Florida History chartered. This movement might have affected Pat because a number of ports were selected as historic sites so she will definitely be more circumspect while using them. Another historical context is the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. This conference eventually decided the UN Law of the Sea. The boat she lived in is also noteworthy. Egg harbor boats are on average more than 100,000 dollars, which approximately equal to one third of the price of a house in rural area. This definitely would not be a small amount of investment at that time. Although egg harbor boats are at the lower end of spectrum of yachts. If we speculate the trend of boat price over time, even though boat price has been increasing continuously since the Great Depression, it was indeed unwise to invest in a boat instead of a rel estate which has significant higher growth rate over the last decades.

https://www.nmma.org/statistics

https://www.boattrader.com/boats/make-egg-harbor/

http://info.flheritage.com/comprehensive-plan/chap7.cfm#1950

http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/uncls/uncls.html

          Our goal for this project was to recreate what Pat felt when she was out on the water. We tried to do that by making a scaled down version of a wind tunnel. The tunnel is small and you can put your face or hand inside of it. There are fans on the bottom so you feel the wind and spritz bottles shoot water which simulates ocean spray. The water will be salt water so it smells like the ocean. Pat lived on a boat for a while in Florida and would often go boating with her husband in Connecticut.  They would do lots of activities such as fishing while boating but the thing pat said she loved most was the serenity of just enjoying her surroundings and admiring the beauty of the nature around her. Inside the wind tunnel there will be things that you can see that will remind Pat of her time on the water. We are trying to simulate sight, touch, and smell to create an experience as close to being on the water in Connecticut as possible.

I walked out from the cabin and embraced the first gleam of sun in the morning. As I sat still on the boat the a strong gust of refreshing wind blew the cold ocean spray in my face replenishing my vibrancy. When the last fog vanished in the light of the sun, I saw two pigeons flying freely above the boundless sea. I smelled the ocean salt in the air as I looked out and saw the calm waves lapping over the wet rocks.