A couple of concepts have sprung to mind thus far:

• A giant-sized game of Street Fighter (etc),

played on a projector

using giant-sized joystick and buttons

This would guarantee audience attention and would necessitate collaboration as it would require 3+ people to operate

• An app running parallel to the exhibition

Pulls information from Illuminate website

Possibly a 'scorecard'-type function - the most liked student rises to the top

Could include comments

• A fuller realisation of my team's app design prototype in INB103: Industry Insights

Using Yahoo Pipes to pull data

Created using HTML5/jQuery etc

The fundamental question that I need to ask of any idea that I come up with is 'Why?' - what issue/concern/concept am I trying to communicate within my project.

Since 2000 mobile telephones have become increasingly more available, majority of Western people own one or even two. This has happened over the past 30 years, the mobile telephone has revolutionised communication. We can observe how the Internet is changing the world at the moment, but what about designs that are yet to be made? In this project I will be looking at some future technologies, how this technology might affect humanity by questioning some of the moral and ethical implications of these new technologies.

By looking at where possible problems could arise we can figure out where the problem is before it happens. This should be our top priority as humanity, we are at a point where the technology we are starting to create could have very beneficial effects on humanity changing the world drastically for the better essentially becoming a sci-fi world, or it could lead to a collapse of humanity if we do not figure out the answers required. To investigate these ideas I will be looking at future technology researcher Ray Kurzweil who has provided us with what the future might look like. He thinks within the next 20 years we will start seeing nanotechnology and extremely advanced A.I. (artificial intelligence) machines[1]. Quoting Kurzweil “The computer in the phone in my pocket is a thousand times smaller and a thousand times cheaper than the one I used as a student, and what now fits in your pocket will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years,”[2], as we are given an example we can see how this technology is starting to become very real. As this technology becomes reality we need to have the answers to the questions this technology will force us to ask.

[1] http://www.readersdigest.co.nz/ray-kurzweil

Data visualization is an important instrument to communicate information. Sometimes it even offers a complete different view on things and opens new ways to experience. 

Data visualization can provide a better and faster way of understanding information, which can be, even for us as humans beings, very abstract. Numbers and Units can be very hard to understand, so it is important to translate these data into data we can understand easily. 

To visualize raw-data in a way people can understand requires some basic rules. With this project I will figure out the basic rules of visualizing according to the comprehensibility, and I want to create a pattern-library of different well working visualization techniques to understand visualizing. 

I will analyze, discuss and examine used techniques of the researched visualizations. By using the outcome of my research I will be able to figure out facts which are the base for creating the pattern-library for visualizations. 

CCDN 271: Design as Inquiry

Assignment 2

As members of the developed world, many of us find ourselves, obliged to better the lives of those less fortunate by way of monetary donation. These donations, generally to charitable organisations are very rarely specific to the consumer, and can fail to foster a sense of self-sustainability within communities. An alternative to a monetary donation is to engage with individual communities, recognising their specific needs and challenges in order to affect change.

With this paper, I will research the differences between these two approaches to assisting a developing nation in which the consumers of the developing world are treated as recipients, or alternatively as customers, in order to determine the impact of each model.

I will investigate the effectiveness of a structured model of donating standard supplies through a charitable organisation as compared to a model involving greater engagement with individual communities in order to elucidate their potential for long-term change among these developing communities. I will argue that by treating developing societies as customers rather than recipients, a more positive and effective fostering of a harmonious and self-sufficient culture is likely.

Having clarified the aims of each approach and identified the fundamental differences between the two I will endeavour to examine their effectiveness. I will reference the efforts made by Paul Polak of International Development Enterprises towards sustainable development to achieve a new system of self-sufficiency.