Projects
All projects currently under development were initiated by students working within parameters set by MMES project leaders. Students from Art, Engineering, Computer Science and Music worked in teams of four to create a solution to the following problem:
With your group, create a new way of experiencing walking. This way of walking should activate one's understanding of space, place and the movement of our bodies through it. This way of exploring walking should be assisted by re-engineering or augmenting consumer grade electronics as a means of recording, extracting, plotting some form of data. Assume an audience who experiences your project as a discrete experience, akin to a demonstration, art exhibit, or educational event - all tech will be provided for them.
Your augmented walk may be as high or low-tech as your group sees necessary, and may involve any of our senses - visual, aural, or otherwise. The walk must be real and dynamic but the data may be static, dynamic, physical or digital.
To further narrow this assignment we’re providing a set of guidelines for the walk.
- Your project may be specific to a certain location, terrain, time
- Your project may not be specific to any age or gender, and should assume no discipline-specific knowledge
- Your project needs to have output that is perceptible after the walk. In some cases the manipulation of this data within a designated field (the walk) could broadly constitute a map.
- Your augmented walk needs to be repeatable by others given the use of the custom designed technology.
Students were given six weeks and a budget of $500.00 each to realize a working prototype.
