Andrea loved things about the city. She became a bartender for 15 years in a bar in the city. She lovedt singing in local Boston area bars and restaurants as well. in adition to this, she loved the beach growing up. this is how we felt would best show her life and, Andrea is also big when it comes her family and especially her son demonstrate the things she loves.

Idea

Evocative Image

Precedent 2

Precedent 3

Additional precedent

We have tried to colour in the bar in order to make It stand out from the other colourless buildings.

Same with the citgo sign

This is a performance stage that we are currently trying to find better solutions to make it stand out, we are seeing what are the best ways to make a location stand out.

Iteration 2

added beach

Rearranged some of the buildings to improve the looks.

Are next step as a group is to figure out what exactly we were going to

Andrea loved lots of things about the city. She became a bartender for 15 years in a bar in the city. She loved to singing in local Boston area bars and restaurants as well. in adition to this, she loved the beach growing up. Andrea loved to walk around the city to go shopping as she really felt that she was never alone in the city. She was very passionate about singing all throughout her life. Our idea was to incorporate singing with a microphone that lights up a city built with parts of her life.

Biography and idea

Evocative Image

Precedent 2

Precedent 3

Additional precedent

first prototype

wasn't asthetic and didn't have any symbolism

Iteration 2

added beach

Rearranged some of the buildings to improve the looks.

Using the feedback that we received after our first presentation we had to decide how to add more symbolic meaning the our prototype.

We decided after thinking that we would create something where we would keep a sound sensor inside a microphone and once someone sang into it, it would light up the LED lights connected to the sound sensor which would light up a city.

Feedback after mid review

Microphone Design Tinkercad

Microphone Final design

Sound sensor system





arduino

City in use

Final Prototype

Thesis Pt1

Who is Junior?

Junior is a formerly homeless man we interviewed at Common Art in Boston. He now lives in Jamaica Plain, a Bostonian neighborhood. His real first name is Jimmy, but Junior is the nickname he goes by.

The cause of his homelessness at a young age was from his father being deported after they immigrated to the United States. His parents were from Panama and Honduras. His father and him came to the United States without Junior's mother. Junior's relationship with his mother was one of hatred (hence their coming to the United States without her).

He mentioned the constant disrespect his mother treated him with. Finally, he cracked and cut her off a while ago. This was a very important decision for his life.

Thesis Pt2

What is our project and what is it based off of?

Our project will be a heavy shoe/sock which represents the hardship that Junior went through during his life. We chose footwear to show that he was still able to move forward even during the difficult times. The heavy weight represents the hardships he experienced through homelessness and problems with his family.

Conceptual Precedent

Technical Precedents

Technical Precedent

Prototype #1 Completed

We worked on the weight of the prototype, adding rocks to it to simulate heaviness.

One problem we had was how light the rocks were in the prototype. We needed something heavier that would fit the size of the shoe.

Prototype #2

Completed

We worked on a laser print of the shoe (Thanks to Matthew McAdam for the help!) and added some adjustments to the comfort of the shoe. No weight yet, but we thought of using a brick as the weight in itself

First Sketch

We only had a rough idea of what our final product would look like. We didn't even sketch the shoe's cover. We also didn't include a weight in its design.

Final Sketch

This sketch was much more detailed. We had an idea of the materials we were to use. We also had an idea for our weight, as well as specifics about the use of fabric (in terms of gluing and specific structure).

Final Progress #1

We laser-cutted the flexible wooden base of the shoe which we sketched out.

Final Progress #2

We switched the base material and wrapped some fabric around it.

Final Progress #3

We fully wrapped the fabric around the shoe, creating the sock/boot-like structure. All that was left was to add the ankle weight.

Final Product (Cinematic Shot)

We finally added the ankle weight to the shoe. This is the finishing look of our product.

Final Product (Detail Images)

Final Product (In Use) (Alex)

If we had more time, we could have made the fabric look much cleaner. This could've been possible with specific measurements and more time to undo/redo our gluing of the material. We lost our project a few times which held our progress back a lot. We had to rebuild the whole object to make this final product. There were also many times we had to reprint the lazer-cutted wooden base when it was still our idea.

Possible Improvements

Problem/thesis

Light Through the Darkness: Our art installation recreates the powerful lesson that AJ shared with us about his experience with homelessness. In the darkest times, he turns to the things that he loves to keep going in life. Using fog to represent his struggles and the things he wasn't proud of, and light representing AJ’s love for content creation, poetry, beat making, painting, and many other passions, we are showing how AJ has survived.

precedent



After our midreview we had a lot of good feedback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfYLx1N0wKk

Thesis

Our goal of this project is to make a 3d wooden cross out of laser-cutting that displays Denata's belief in religion and a huge heart for art where the inside is going to be a tree(one of Denata's main artwork) that has light shining under the platform that shows Denata's resilience and hope of making the world a better place. Her bright side is shown when the light turns on as it closes to become a completed cross and when the cross opens and is not completed, the light will shut down.

Conceptual Precedent

Technical Precedent

Additional Precedent

First Sketch

Second Sketch

Third Sketch

Final Sketch

First prototype

Feedback from Midreview

1. The drawing that we put inside the cross were literal.
2. Using wood will show the interviewee's interest in architecture becuse it is a building material.
3. Use stronger materials like wood to make it look more realistic and stable.
4. Using lights would show a better example of her dark side and the bright side.

Second iteration

Third iteration

Final iteration: Front view of general cross

Final iteration: inside view

Our project

Our project represents the difference between two jobs in Ahmed's life. The prototype that we are currently developing is a suitcase with two sides. We created a suitcase to represent Ahmed traveling across the world for college. One side of the suitcase represents Ahmed's job when he was working for an oil company. This side is represented with plastic and black paint. This represents the depressing elements that the oil company job contained. The other side is representing Ahmed's job for the non profit. This side is way more colorful and exciting. This represents the bigger meaning behind the non-profit job.

Conceptual precedent

Technical Precedent

Additional Precedent

Additional Precedent

Old Sketches

New Sketches

Iterations

Iterations

Iterations

Gif

Thank You

After our interview process with Mr Guthrie, we settled upon our thesis of, the impact of a word

Our Thesis

Precedents

Conceptual Precedent, Domino effect

Precedents

Technical Precedent, Puzzle pieces

Precedents

Additional Precedent,

Keyhole, we decided to not go with this idea after further thought.

Mid Review Sketches

These are all of our sketches before. Some ideas that we had are looking through a keyhole, a wall protecting a castle, and a puzzle. They all symbolized the idea of perseverance, or smaller to a bigger picture

Sketch

The Main sketch, we decided to make our project this because of mid-review feedback

Iteration #1

First design. Damien made it, this design didn't capture the idea we wanted to potray though, so we kept tweaking it.

Iteration #2

Second design, made by Adam, we liked the idea but wanted to make it more interactive to symbol growth

Iterations

Third design,

 made by Adam

Iterations

The first print was made out of acrylic. (didn't stick with the design because it was very hard to solve)

Iterations

The forth design, added the bigger and the smaller words.

Final design

Iterations

Iterations

We made a box with the hope of creating a diorama and extending our project visually (it didn't work out because it wasn't symbolic)

Iterations

Idea that we wanted to incorporate, didn't have the time

This gif shows us assembling the puzzle

Booth Photos

Booth Photos



Thank You!!

Backstory

Jack and I interviewed John over Zoom. John had experienced homelessness in the Boston area. He talked about how when you have keys, you don't notice them, but when the keys are taken away from you, its like all the locks "glow." We thought this was an idea we could run with and make a great project about.

Artist statment

At first we wanted to make a box with two sides one with a key and the other with a door and a shadow of a key. But once we were almost finished with our final we had a better idea. We still stuck with the inital box and key idea but we had led's on the key side to make it glow this side represents oprotunity and on in the middle we put a peice of paper so when you look throught the other key hole you see a shadow of a key representing that there was once oproutinuty that is not there anymore.

Precedent 1

Precedent 2

Precedent 3

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration 3

Iteration 4

Iteration 5

Iteration 6

First idea

Progression photo

Final Product

Top view

Key side view

Shadow of key side