Wednesday, October 31, 2012

degree project problem questions.


how can communication technology through mobiles and the internet help support people in long distance relationships?

how can poetry become interactive and spatial and touchable in such a way as to make non-creative people care?

how can love stories of all sorts of people be told through data mining and information graphics? 

how can tweens&teens be taught about how their brains work in such a way that it inspires not fear or unease but excitement and joy through motion?

how can the narratives of the internet weave a reaffirmation of the good of people, not just the violent, for those who don't understand technology?

how can social media help young people be convinced to trust and say words at each other without fearing abandonment?

how can a group of people united by a place use experimental and gestural storytelling in a physical space to connect with one another and their home?





these came a great distance. in the reflective exercises and the original "think about your life" questionnaire, it was confirmed that the things i care about are people and feelings and words. it was confirmed a lot. it was confirmed so much that i got kind of frustrated by how little variation i was getting in my reflection that i started in with some absurd existentialist poetry in the form of problem questions. this turned out to be way more generative than i had expected and, when it came right down to it, really did give me the seeds for the questions above. so, i mean... hell yes. creative writing. anyway, here's that, if you're interested in reading where this all began.



how can i, a person, in a place, doing a thing, made out of flesh and feelings and flaws, ever hope to impact another human, existing in his or her own constellation of experiences, through, say for instance, kinetic typography on an ipad?

how can the collecting and sharing of stories in a physical space help people feel significant and connected to their home and the people around them?

how can a dialogue

how can we refocus

how can 

how can poetry become interactive and spatial and touchable in such a way as to make people give a shit?

how can i induce feelings of love and safety and cautious hope in individuals who are willing to participate in a system to facilitate such 

how can i subvert the workplace the money the monsanto the audience the 

how can i let people care about each other when they're scared to do that across the country or across the street. using a motion graphic?

how can autobiographies fit together into a mosaic of archetypal experiences that nevertheless express the perfect sublime humanity of each solver and connector they represent

how can people be taught how their brains work in such a way that it inspires not fear or unease but faith and excitement and trust in the incomprehensible machinations of the universe and makes them want to reach out and touch one another by the hands

how can accountability be generated to hold people together who want to be held together but don't trust themselves alone to do the holding? (barring a marriage contract.)

how can the narratives of the internet weave a reaffirmation of the good of people, not just the violent, and allow the expressions of exhaustion to be a testament not just to priorities but to devotion?

how can rhetoric be used to justify the never-ending experience of mattering to one another, of the ordinariness of basic human connection and the denial or attainment of physical or emotional needs through the transition and duration of motion

how can people be convinced to trust and say words at each other without fearing abandonment? does it require social media? 

how can formal experimentation with analog image-making techniques help people relate to one another and bond over the meaning of being a human in a place that is impartial to whether or not you happen to call it home despite your proximity or lack thereof to the ones that you love?

how can intuition drive innovation through the augmented generation of expressions of human connectedness and communication through the ease of cooperation and the support of ubiquity?

how can the goodhearted help people to take function over form to make meaning happen, between understanding and continuation?

how can the emotional struggle of expression through bodily exhaustion be reassured through the allowances of mobile interaction?

how can design pontificate companionably over the unwavering difficulty of withstanding a single monday?