Design your Experience
with your mind
나를 위해 산다면 나는 아주 작 다.하지만 나를 필요로 하는 사 람이 있으니까 나는 보다 큰 힘 을 발휘할 수도 있고, 또 발휘하 고 싶어 하는 것이다.
If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Design your Experience
with your mind
Thesis Research Book Written, designed, and produced by Jeena Lee jlee134@syr.edu, Industrial and Interaction Design, Syracuse University December 19th, 2011
Abstract I have lived and traveled many places throughout my life. Entering to different communities, cultures, cities, countries, and different parts of the world had been living books which had educated me to gain a broader perspective. As society goes through the motions of daily life, it has no opinion of a matter in which it cannot see. If they have never experienced it, then surely, it does not exist. I believe that creating and sharing experiences with a little creativity and motivation, people can revitalize their spaces and appreciate objects. It hopes to show that by sharing and designing your “experiences� to others to create positive social interactions, enrich community living, and connect & educate to gain a broader perspective of living together in the world. The work of this research book can be understood as an experiment. Please get lost.
Dedicated to inner traveler in all of us.
“Ideally a book would have no order to it and the reader would have to discover their own.� - Raoul Vaneigem (Belgian writer and philosopher)
Table of Contents PREFACE I I. mind map of experience C H A P T E R I. C H A P T E R I I. C H A P T E R I I I. C H A P T E R I V. A P P E N D I X !. A P P E N D I X I I.
mind map of experience
love
toys food
time
places
things
people culture
sharing ex·pe·ri·ence
How can we share experiences?
education
responsibility
play
social interactions nature engagement
playground
wellness meditation medication
collaboration park
recreation
generation
language lifestyle economy
connection community
Experiences are indicators of a region, of a lifestyle, and of a time that makes up who you are. Objects and places can create what we can experience and share the passing of our lives- what we use to define ourselves and to signal who we are and who we are not.
history
travel
quality of experience
These are the some of the big words that came to my mind through brainstorming process of “experience”. First word that pierce through my mind from experience was “sharing.” Any experience would be lifeless if you have to do it alone. However, by sharing experiences become meaningful and engaging.
communication
Maslow’s Hierarchy
love
toys food
time
places
things sharing ex·pe·ri·ence “Sharing is not new, it is human nature.”
self actualization esteem love/belonging safety physiological
psychology of sharing
The New York Times Consumer Insight Group, in association with Latitude REsearch, recently concluded a study- The Psychology of Sharing.
Whats’ changed?
We now live in the information age
We share MORE content
To bring valuable and entertaining content to others
From MORE sources
To define ourselves to others
With MORE people
To grow and nourish our relationships
More often
Self-fulfillment
More quickly
To get the word out about causes or issues Sharing is all about relationships
Six personas of online sharer
“I sent a couple of articles on nutrition and wellness to a friend with a health issues. She e-mailed me to thank me; she appreciated that I had been thinking about her.”
“I share [things related to] business interests and exchange ideas on how to improve our company’s offerings to our customers.”
Althuists helpful
Careerists
Reliable
“I got a deal to the bar at the Gansevoort Hotel emailed to me. I forwarded it to a bunch of friends and we turned it into a girls night out.”
Connectors Creative Relaxed
Making plans E-mail
“I only share things with someone specific if I think they will enjoy it. If they aren’t relevant to the material, there is no point in sharing it with them.”
Selectives
Thoughtful
Resourceful
Thoughtful
Thoughtful
Intelligent Connected
Careful Valuable
Network
Informative Less likely to E-Mail
Cutting Edge Reaction
Young Creative
Validation
Popular
Twitter Empowered
Hipsters Facebook
Boomerangs “When I post controversial things, it makes me look engaged and provocative, and I want to be perceived that way.”
“Sharing is actually part of who I am.”
History of creation
1990s
World Wide Web Microsoft Yahoo AOL Apple Google
THE FUTURE WILL CONTINOUSLY EXPAND CAPABILITIES FOR HIGHLY PERSONALISED SHARING OF CONTENT ACROSS ALL PERSONAL SCREEN- BASED DEVICES.
1G Mobile phone Mass market Email 2G Mobile phone 2000s
I Pod Second Life Firefox Motorola Nokia
The rise of the TV Networks
Walkman
Personal computer
Home satelite TV
I Phone
Android
The rise of the Apps 2010s
I Pad
3D TV
Social news aggregation 1980s
The rise of Color TV 1970s
Telstar satelite 1960s
The rise of Television
Magazine revolution
Blogosphere Wordpress Blogger Facebook Youtube Twitter
2011s
My Taptu
1950s
Broadcast radio 1930s
Telegraph cable
The rise of the newspaper Victorian Era
Town crier
Messanger pigeon Ancient Rome
Middle Ages
Marathon man Ancient Greece
Prehistory
Cave painting
3G Mobile phone
time line
unexperienced history experienced history
THE MOST DANGEROUS THING ON EARTH (AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL). This graph (made in November 2003 by the Opte Project) makes visual our radical new possibility for knowledge. The project founder, Barrett Lyon, wrote a software program with the capacity to map the entire internet in a single day, by a single computer. The collected information provides an analysis of wasted Internet Protocol (IO) space, maps IP distribution, and detects the result of natural disasters, weather, and war.
A book of the History of the World in 100 Objects shows the story of the development both of humanity and art. From over 2,000,000 years ago mankind, even at a Neanderthal stage, was fashioning tools and objects, crafting and decorating. The earliest object in the series is a hand tool for stripping meat from the bone. The Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool is the oldest humanly made object in the British Museum. ‘The invention of the first tools is one of the most important moments in human history. Making, using and sharing things played a key role in developing human behaviour. The ability to make tools allowed humans to adapt to new environments and out-compete other animals. Gradually it would lead to humans becoming the most successful animal in the world. All modern technology began with these first chopping tools’. As the human brain developed, with the proteins provided by our meat diet, so too did the decorative elements of the tools we used, and the desire to retain objects. The conceptual ability to craft complicated tools and objects is linked very specifically to the language site of the brain. As we developed language and therefore identity, so did we develop the ability and desire to craft or make objects of beauty. Art therefore is a fundamental part of being human, of defining and declaring an identity, of linking one to an idea of religion also or a sense of community.
The oldest humanly made object
This is an invention called a paper. You can write, draw, print, or create things. Now, stop and think how you can apply this invention to connect and educate humanity to gain a broader perspective of living toghether in the world today.
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective. - Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (1889- 1975) The main thesis of Toynbee’s work is that the well being of a civilization depends on its ability to respond creatively to challenges, human and environmental. He was optimistic about the twentieth century. He believed that the cycle of rise and decline was not inevitable, that the future is not determined by the apst, and that a civilization could choose and act wisely in the face of recurring hardships. However, his prediction posed a challenge - and an opportunity - during the post-WW II era. Our world now faces profound challenges, many brought on by innovaiton itself. Humanity had created a massive change to the world and now is the time to stop and think. For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails. In fact, the secret ambition of design is to become invisible, to be taken up into the culture, absorbed into the background. The highest order of success in design is to achieve ubiquity, to become banal. Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them. -- Bruce Mau, Massive Change
Origami paper
The Bezos Family Foundation asked children from around the world to mail origami cranes to Seattle, promising to donate $2 per crane to the Japanese Earthquake relief efforts. They received more than 2 million cranes.
- The New York Times
NATIONS OF ORIGIN: 38, including Turkey, Iran, South Korea, Romania and Haiti, and all 50 U.S. states SMALLEST / LARGEST CRANES: Size of a thumbnail / Size of a pterodactyl UNEXPECTED MEDIA THAT CHILDREN FOLDED INTO CRANES: Math homework, hall passes, vocabulary lessons, love letters, Saran wrap, Kleenex, candy wrappers, aluminum foil, restaurant menus SIZE OF VIK MUNIZ’S CRANE MOSAIC: 36 by 40 feet
Art can change the world
Anyone can influence anyone:
We now trust strangers as much as our closest friends.
Friendship is no longer local or face to face: It is becoming distant and virtualised.
Everyone is an Influencer:
The power to influence no longer belongs to the experts or “those in the know”. The idea that we live in a simplistic world where thereis a small group of “influencers” who dictate the agenda to everyone else is no loger true thanks to social media. We all share influence today whether we actively mean to or not.
THE INVISIBLE CRISIS
People can not imagine something that they haven’t experienced, nor can they envision how it could help them in their daily lives.
Le Petit Prince
All grown ups were children once.. although few of them remembers it. “Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they de-
mand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: “I saw a house that cost $20,000.” Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!” (…)
If you were to say to the grownups: “I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,” they would not
They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.”
“All men have the stars,” he answered, “but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You - you alone - will have the stars as no one else has them -“ “What are you trying to say?” “In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I sall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… You - only you - will have stars that can laugh!”
You are the pilot, and the voice of the story. You are the one who creates and tells the stories for those who could not be there. You are unable to comforted but wish to comfort others. There is a great something missing in your life. Do not forget that you are much loved. Let your sorrow be comforted...
And he laughed again. “And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure… And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! The you will say to them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!’..”
You are the little prince himself- extraordinary, mysterious, philosophical, and with a passion for just the right sort of sheep. Remember: “The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...”
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He can say to himself: ‘somewhere, my
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“If some one loves a ,of which just one single grows in all the millions and millions of , it is enough to make him just to look at the . He can say to himself: ‘somewhere, my flower is there…’”
“If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him h a p py just to look at the stars. He can say to himself: ‘somewhere, my flower is there…’”
This is a page of a book. But it can be somebody’s nest, a diary, or a sketchbook. We can make any experiences out of this page.
This is a page of experience. You can change the world with a page.
Everywhere is city: We still conceive of cities as discrete objects, separate from their surroundings. That’s no longer true. There is no exterior to the global city that connects and sustains us all.
One thing is sure. The earth is now more cultivated and developed than ever before. There is more farming with pure force, swamps are drying up, and cities are springing up on unprecedented scale. We’ve become a burden to our planet. Resources are becoming scarce, and soon nature will no longer be able to satisfy our needs. - Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus, Roman theologian, 200 B.C.
Mali mud mosque The biggest and oldest mud building in the world needs a fresh coat of river mud. Once the mud is the right consistency, the whole town of Djenne mucks in for this annual event.
- BBC Human Planet
In Mali, North Africa, a craftsman named Ouseman depends on the river for his livelihood. He’s a master mason in Djenne, an ancient city built entirely from river mud. Ouseman is responsible for the upkeep of the city’s Great Mosque, the biggest and oldest mud building in the world, and the centre of Ouseman’s culture.
Human production of “nature�
Urbanization, one of humankind’s most successful and ambitious programs, is the triumph of the unnatural over the natural, the grid over the organic. It reduce time and expense in commuting and transportation while improving opportunties for jobs, education, housing, and marketplace competition. How can we connect and share experiences and benefits between such different cities like these?
Living bridges In one of the wettest places on earth the tangled roots of the strangler figs are coaxed to create a network of bridges that will survive any deluge and connect the valleys of Meghalaya.
- BBC Human Planet
In Meghalaya, Northern India, officially the wettest place on earthm during the monsoon season, locals endure so much rain that flooding rivers threaten to isolate communities for months on end. Luckily, the local people have found a most magical and unexpected solution. They train the roots of strangler figs to form beautiful living bridges over the floodwaters.
Human production of “nature�
When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.
Snow in Syracuse “This city is too cold, too grey.� If the city environment outwardly effec its users, the image of that city does not fare well, the users are conversely unengaged from the outset, or in worse cases, depressed.
Play
Sapporo Snow Festival “If opportunities to play are provided in urban spaces, individuals and communities will engage in positive social interactions; which will help enrich public spaces, strengthen civic morale and improve well-being.� People love to interact, touch, and explore.
Objects by itself imply utility and function, yet also regards as culturally significant because it has a long history that is so closely associated with so many purposes that go far beyond utility.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered; amaze us, scare us, or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence. - Aaron Bestky, director of the Cincinatti Art Museum
Astronomical Clock - Prague Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects
“Time is what clock measures.�
Artist/Designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki created a ‘Time of the Sky’ watch. The watch is programmed so that it displays different colors of the sky every few seconds, therefore referring to changes in the real sky. When a button is pushed, the sun or moon’s color appears in the sky which indicates the time on the clock.
This is a brick wall. But it can be somebody’s freedom, identity, limit, or gallery. We can make any experiences out of this wall.
This is a wall of experience. You can change the world with an ordinary wall. JR’s Wrinkles of the city
“Experience is not what happens to you,
it is what you make of what happens to you�
- Aldous Huxley (English writer and humanist)
“You are water. I’m water. We’re all water in different containers. That’s why it’s so easy to meet.”
“We are all part of the rivers running into the great wide ocean.�
- Yoko Ono