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LOST IN TRANSLATION Andrea Sotomayor Sharvari Sovani Tanvi Mehta Zainab Akhtar
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INTRODUCTION For our design project, we decided to leave the past behind and focus on how our present can give us an insight into our predicted future. Through an installation, we were able to experience the adjacent future by the process of making and immerse our audience into our vision of the future as our final product.
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PLANNING
KEY CONCEPTS
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TENSION
CONTINUUM
CONNECTIONS
CHAOS
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PLANNING
VISUALIZING THE FUTURE We used existing objects to visualize the concepts we were trying to represent in an imersive installation
01. TENSION Squishy mesh ball
02. CONTINUUUM Infinity Race Track
03. CHAOS Sound Igloo
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PLANNING
KEY ELEMENTS
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AN ENCLOSURE - GEODESIC DOME
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VISUALS
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SOUND
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MAKING
THE STRUCTURE
We decided to use newspaper for the dome structure to represent a communication tool that connects the world. Our first step was rolling 165 pages to create the struts for the geodesic dome.
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IT'S HANDMADE
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MAKING
REAL TIME CHANGE FILLING THE SPACE As we started to cover the spaces to interpret the elements and drivers of change in language, we were able to experience how quick and randomly the space (language) changed as we manipulated the materials. We used printed paper with scripts, astrology and tools, foil and yarn to represent smaller connections, reflections and tension.
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VISUALS & SOUND The Audio-Video Compilation was an attempt to capture the essence of our 'Language Map' through a different medium. The video includes a series of visuals and graphics relating to the journey of evolution and dissolution of languages across the globe- cave paintings, sign language, different scripts, technological advancements, natural disasters, AI etc. The audio complementing it is similar in its progression. The gradual layering and overlapping of these sounds keep increasing and reach a point of incomprehensibility before it starts receding to calmness and eventually, complete silence.
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THE RESULT What we had, as a result, was an experience of looking at a representation of an imagined future from the outside- a future that entails elements of the past, materialized by different mediums and textures like newspapers, yarn, symbols, tools etc. as well as the evolving present, manifested in the form of the audio-video compilation. This representation of the future could be experienced from either the outside or the inside depending on the observer's readiness to deal with the discomfort of entering it.