Artificial Environments

Following on from our day with the designers I decided to focus on my ideas surrounding the environment. The advice given led to a few adaptions on my original ideas.

One idea from Gareth Thompson was to do with my idea of bringing the meditative experience of travelling by train into the office or home. He suggested I look at creating a new environment based on what we already use. . .for instance using office partitions to create a projected environment that surrounds the user.

Anab Jain suggested that I look at extreme travel and bringing that travel experience into an environment where you would never expect to see it. She liked the idea of seeing bungy jumping or deep sea diving footage just sitting on a park bench. She also suggested that the created environment be a subtle one where the user only catches glimpses of travel.

Another suggestion made on the day was that I play with the idea that we see more when we travel. That instead of just seeing one view out of the window, allowing people the opprtunity to see where they are travelling by setting up cameras on the front of planes or underneath in the instance of the plane. This grew into the idea that when you fly over a place you are able to see photos of the area you are flying over. . . perhaps access to tourists photos on flickr or images showing a birds-eye view of the place.