Find 3 Precedents of public art/installation. Share your findings and post them to the 'updates' tab. Remember to also write down your interpretations for each piece.

Brainstorming questions for creating public works of art:

• What is the cultural relevance or meaning in your piece?
• How do you want to celebrate or change or critique that preexisting meaning?
• What materials will you use?
• How big will the work be?
• How can others interact with your piece? What should they take away from their encounters?

The purpose of the daily post is to document the progress for the day. You will do this through the following post types:

Updates

In the Updates tab, each team member should post images of the work they completed over the course of the day. This includes ideas that came out of your mind - sketches, images of prototypes, renders or screenshots of digital designs, storyboards, etc. Every image must have a Title and Caption. See the example in the Gallery of this post.

Title - What is the image of? Be specific in terms of the version and content.
ex - Shade prototype 1,  Initial storyboard, 3D Model of Shade Connection.

Caption - What aspect of your design process does the image capture and how did it inform your process?  
ex - Exploring mobility of hexagons. We noticed that in order to raise the shade, many hexagons would need to become trapezoids.

Precedents

Precedent research is a fundamental part of the creative process, providing context, inspiration, and technical guidance. It is work that came out of someone else's mind. In the Precedents Tab, each team member should post precedents applicable to the current stage of design. While you need not have a new precedent every day, be sure to include them each time you make substantive technical or design changes.

You can read more about Precedents here.

Things to consider:

• Each precedent should have its own post.
• Each image should have a title and caption saying what the image is and attributing the source.
• Each precedent should have 1-2 sentences explaining how the precedent is applicable to your project.

THE PRESENTATION POST

This post's privacy is set to Everyone. This post showcases your final design by telling the comprehensive story of how your idea was born, developed, and manifested. The arc of the story should encompass the, How of your project in a compelling narrative. It showcases your design process including your brainstorming, each of your iterations, and your final prototype. It allows the viewer to delve deeply into your process.

• Every Slide should have a Title and Caption.
  The body of this post is The Brief. You should include a version of the Brief for each collaborator in the project.
• This post will be used in your review presentation at the end of the session.

You are encouraged to make your narrative as compelling as possible. All of the content below should be included, but if you would like to rearrange the material in order to tell your story differently, work with your coach.

INTRODUCTION PORTION

Your presentation is a narrative, and the introduction sets up the scene for that story. Here you introduce the project, say why it is important, and summarize what you did.

TITLE WITH TAGLINE: This slides shows a crisp, clear final image and the title of your project. with a pithy blurb describing the project. The image, name, and tagline should draw a viewer in. 

Examples:

• The Fruit - A line following, light tracking robot
• Segmented Vehicle - A vehicle that conforms to the landscape
• Cacoon - Wearable sculpture exploring the concept of transformation and death

EVOCATIVE  IMAGE: This is a single image that shows a clear image that evokes the soul of your project. This image helps set up the why in a compelling way, sets the stage for your narrative, and will help frame the entire presentation. The caption of this slide (set with the Edit Captions button when editing your post) should discuss the context of your project. No Text on the slide.

THESIS STATEMENT: This is a TEXT ONLY slide for which briefly describes the Soul and Body of your project. You can use the project description from your Brief or write something new. This statement ties together your narrative.

Examples:

• The Cocoon:  A wearable sculpture that explores the concept of transformations and death. The Cocoon explores the spiritual journey beyond the human experience; what it means to be human, how wonder effects us, and the concept of what happens after death.
• Body Accordion: A musical prosthetic that translates the wearer’s body movements into a dynamic multimedia performance. The Body Accordion converts flex sensor input to sound through Arduino, MaxMSP, and Ableton Live. 
• Seed to Soup Animation: A whimsical animation about the slow food movement. Seed to Soup showcases a holistic method of cooking. From garden, to kitchen, to dinner table.
• Antlers: A wearable sculpture inspired by antlers found in the deer and antelope family. "Antlers" explores the comparison between armor and attraction. 

PROCESS PORTION

The Process Portion of your presentation tells the story of how you iteratively developed your project. Somewhere in that story you should include conceptual and technical precedents that guided you at each stage as well as brainstorming and process sketches and clear photo booth imagery for 3-4 stages of your process.

This portion is made up of three types of slides repeated 3-4 times. Each iteration in your process should include:

• PRECEDENTS:  Precedents are any projects that inspired you creatively or gave you technical guidance. These can include conceptual precedents and technical precedents. No Text.
• SKETCHES/SKETCH CONCEPT DIAGRAMS: These slides show your generative ideas in sketch form. These should clean, clear drawings. A sketch should show a clear idea. Do not simply scan a messy sketchbook page and expect that people will understand. If you do not have a clear concept or working sketches it is fine to make them after the fact. No Text.
• PROTOTYPE IMAGES:  These are actual images of the prototypes  you documented in your daily posts. These images illustrate your design decisions and how your project changed at each step. No Text.

FINAL PORTION

The Final stage of your presentation is the resolution of your narrative and shows your completed work. The use diagram shows how your project works and the construction diagram shows how it is assembled. Final photos show the project both in action and at rest. The imagery captures your final built design.

USE DIAGRAM: A diagram showing some aspect of the functionality. These can include:

• How one uses or interacts with the project
• The overall behavior of the project over time
• For a complex interactive project, this can be a clear diagram of the software behavior

MECHANICAL DIAGRAM:  A diagram offering insight on how the project is put together and functions technically.

• Ideally, this will be an exploded axonometric
• At minimum this can be a labeled disassembled photo  

ELECTRONICS or OTHER DIAGRAM: Additional diagrams showing some important aspect of your design. 

IMAGERY: The last slides should have an images of the final project. These images should be taken in the photo booth, cropped, and adjusted for contrast, brightness, etc. Images should include:

• An image of the project in use (taken in the booth or at large). This should include a human interacting with the project.
• Images of project alone. Include at least one overall image and one detail image.
• You can also use an image In-Use. 
• Consider using a GIF to show how the project works. 

Today, we will explore ways in which paper can be transformed into an element of surprise! We will break up into groups of two and play with different methods that help us visualize potential movement and forms. We will then have a group discussion to share our explorations and showcase ideas and techniques.

Deliverables:

• Make sure to take documentation photos of your process and post in the response tab above. 
• Include a short summary of what you discovered through this exercise. 
• Optional bonus task: Describe a situation, place, or time where pop ups are useful and interesting. 

so today I had a lot of fun creating paper masks with my partner Kasra we had a lot of fun playing around with the idea of Red Squirrels fighting against Grey Squirrels.

The three precedents that we researched were:

Jeff Koons Balloon dogs model, we think the model means to use  materials other than plastic to make interesting things. Jeff Koons said it means ' the meaning of life' and it is 'eternally optimistic'. He used stainless steal to make the model and we think people might walk away confused as why something such as a balloon dog is worth 58.4 million pounds.

Bansky's peace street art, we think it means to try think that there will be peace somewhere wherever you are, even during conflict. the materials used were probably red and black spray paint, also maybe using a stencil. People might walk away thinking of peace but also thinking of  the many lives lost during  conflict.

The last piece of art is a giant mural in Glasgow by an artist called Smug. We think it means that even if someone or something looks grumpy or dirty on the outside may have a nice personality on the inside. The materials used were probably paint and a very big ladder! People could walk away feeling happy and giving.

Today we made a pop up hedge hog called Harry. We learnt how to make a pop up with a moving mouth,we also added some perforations. Next time i would like to learn how to make the whole body pop up on a card. 

i think that Sophie did well in making the story but i think that we lost out a bit on not putting in the fur which was Sophie's job. 

Today Hannah and I made pop up animals. Hannah and I decided to make a pop up bunny with a moving mouth. From this process we learned how to fold paper and make parts of the animal move. Tomorrow Hannah and I would like to experiment how to make more animals and different objects and shapes. We really enjoyed making the pop up bunny and painting it and cutting out bits of paper and using the hot glue gun. We also liked working together.

Sienna and Hannah 

•  Lucas and i made a bee mask along with a bee story and then presented our work to the class.
• we learned how to make a life like mask of a bee that was partially 3D, using different materials.
• we experimented using different materials for a mask that was supposed to be a bee.