I’ve been wrestling with ideas for the Final Project all week. Now it’s Monday afternoon and we’re going to discuss projects in class tomorrow night. The following are excerpts from my notes during the past week and a preliminary concept.
I started off listing… concrete ideas and potential questions to ask Amit:
I picked an area of interest and started mind-mapping from there… possible project ideas, audiences, and whatever else came to mind at the time:
I had a discussion with my mom earlier in the week about the design of library websites and wondered if I might like to do a project in this area. At the same time, I was also thinking about Maywadenki again and deconstructing something familiar to me: the piano.
From all possible ideas and areas of thought, I constrained myself to those which I was currently interested in: music and sound. This afternoon I began to further develop the idea of working with the piano as inspiration. An idea for a Process began to take shape, but is at this point incomplete. I liked Maywadenki’s use of alphabetic characters to define their process (they have and A, B, C, D, E, F, G production process as well as the A-Z Naki nonsense machines). I wondered if I could use an acrostic of the letters PIANO to define my process.
I wrote a statement of intent for the project, but I still don’t have a particular “user task” defined.
