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There were 3 ideas in total, namely :

1) Reminder strips for dementia/elderly patients

2) Human Traffic   (CHOSEN PROJECT -see below for sketch)

3) An atmospheric liquid detector on umbrellas or drying racks

In the end, we went with HUMAN TRAFFIC for our final idea where a LED strip can be attached to the backpack of a participant and sensors on either side can be used to indicate the direction they intend to move towards.

This is the sketch for 2) human traffic.

Refer to this link for our refined sketch: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/bsze001/week-3-sketch/

By: Bridgel, Ling Ern, Viena and Clarita

Week 3 Sketch

 

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How might the open source system of sharing and collective narrative be a creative inspiration and useful approach for your work as an artist or designer?

 

Open source has the power of inclusivity that eliminates distance, which is a barrier for communication between people worldwide.[1] It provides a platform for users to collaborate more easily through the ability to share content.[2] The huge open sources available online can allow us to freely appropriate and modify a work, be it to integrate it into a larger project or create a new artwork using the original as an inspiration. This serves as a convenient platform between artists, designers and creators to exchange countless new ideas within the society that push the boundaries of technological advancement while building on the foundation of the old. To some extent, we can also somewhat preserve our artwork online due to the massive amount of storage made available.[3]

Available sharing platforms such as Flickr and Pinterest allows one to gain some inspiration from the relevant images shared online. This is particularly useful for artists where different perception can be derived from the same picture featured and can hence trigger a different reaction to it and even inspire us in many ways.

The spirit of sharing can be reflected in the art shown below.

Douglas Davis: The World’s First Collaborative Sentence. Launched 1994, Restored 2013.

Retrieved from http://artport.whitney.org/collection/DouglasDavis/live/Sentence/sentence104.html & https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport/DouglasDavis  (Whitney Museum of American Art)

The above image features my own attempt at the world longest collaborative sentence where I managed to share and contribute to the ongoing artwork that is available anytime and anywhere to anyone in the world. This is a good representation of a collective narrative where all the sharing can be seen and read by people from all walks of life.

 

 

[1] Open Source Studio (2015) The Studio of Now.

[2] Open Source Studio (2015) The Way of Open Source.

[3] Open Source Studio (2015) The Open Source Artist.