Ideation 1

Title

Sensorial Design for Four Seasons in Installation Art

Background

A season is a division of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight.

Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the title of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution. In temperate and Polar Regions, the seasons are marked by changes in the intensity of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface, variations of which may cause animals to go into hibernation or to migrate, and plants to be dormant.

During May, June and July, the northern hemisphere is exposed to more direct sunlight because the hemisphere faces the sun. The same is true of the southern hemisphere in November, December and January. It is the tilt of the Earth that causes the Sun to be higher in the sky during the summer months, which increases the solar flux. However, due to seasonal lag, June, July and August are the hottest months in the northern hemisphere and December, January and February are the hottest months in the southern hemisphere.

In temperate and sub polar regions generally four calendar based seasons are recognized: spring (adj. vernal), summer (adj. festival), autumn (adj. autumnal), and winter (adj. hibernal). However, ecologists in Europe and Australia are increasingly using a six season model for temperate climate regions that includes pre-spring (adj. preverbal) and late summer (adj. Seri tonal) as distinct seasons along with the traditional four (See Ecological Seasons below).

In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, because the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature. For example, in Nicaragua, the dry season is called Summer (Oct to May) and the rainy season is called Winter (Apr to Nov) even though it is located in the northern hemisphere.

In other tropical areas a three-way division into hot, rainy and cool season is used.

In some parts of the world, special "seasons" are loosely defined based upon important events such as a hurricane season, tornado season or a wildfire season.

Chinese seasons are traditionally based on 24 periods known as solar terms, and begin at the midpoint of solstices and equinoxes.

Problem Identification

Earth has two important movements. The first is the rotation of the Earth around an invisible axis. It takes the Earth about 24 hours to finish one complete rotation. This motion is responsible for days and nights. The second important movement that affects the Earth is its revolution around the Sun. One revolution takes 365 ¼ days, or one year. The third movement is related with Earth’s axis. Earth's rotation axis is not fixed in space; its direction executes a slow precession with a period of 26,000 years.

The problem is, people don’t know about how and when exactly seasons are changing and they have no idea what exactly happened during season changing.

Aim & Objectives

• To let the public know about the fact of four seasons and what happening in each season.
• To support the nature and shoe how life is changing in calendar in every season.
• To let public experience sensorial design for four seasons.

Motivation

As a user when trying to touch every season is showing the life is changing with colors and the life going through forward with the time and calendar, and also the user can experience smells of each season.

There is a screen divide by four and each of part present about each season as we have four season on the screen and the user experience from the first season which is spring and going through to the last season which is winter and also the user can experience smells of each season with visuals and they can see how in a year and on a month the season will change and going through the next season. I will put the visuals mixing with sounds effects relate to every season, So it helps public to experience all season and feel how the seasons changing and what is happening in each season specially in Malaysia that have only one season and let public to experience all about four season.

“Time doesn't always heal: it just breathes and swallows memories like the seasons change - sending showers; beating flowers into the mud. And nothing is forever in this place. Nothing but the way my heart fits in your hands; the held breath of hope;

Ideation or concept (updates)

Changing seasons are a very important matter in human’s life and with create that showing the seasons are changing for every 3 months which are, spring from spring begins on 1 March, summer on 1 June, autumn on 1 September, and winter on 1 December. Since every first of these 4 months seasons will change, everyone might have the change to know more about the seasons and its presents how the cycle of life is changing when the seasons will change.

Experience all seasons in 5 minutes will have 4 hot spots / interactive spots / sliders which the visitors use. Each of these hold one dataset related to seasons change. So if you touch / move the slider, the work activates in front of you and you can choose a certain month from the time range of that dataset. For example, the spring will come on 1st of March mean showing how the planet growing and the blooms growing from trees. Moving that slider right or left will then give you different season.

Review, Analysis and Precedent Studies

All season are changing every 3 months, which are, spring from spring begins on 1 March, summer on 1 June, autumn on 1 September, and winter on 1 December and its present the beauty of each season on the floor and visitors can experience each season by their own.

References

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73LZ4UrJv4&feature=related

http://www.wowlab.net/index.php?ref=works-motiontexture-en-movie

Ideation 2

Title

Save Rarest Animals Life

Background

There are top ten rarest animals in the word such as The Pinta Island tortoise, Dolphin, The Vancouver Island Marmot, Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat, Hispid hare, Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat and Red Wolf.

Problem Identification

In the word there are 10 rarest animals in the word, which are Pinta Island tortoise, Dolphin, The Vancouver Island Marmot, Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat, Hispid hare, Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat and Red Wolf.

Without knowledge and knowing what are rarest animals in the word we could easily harm and destroy it. We need to save the rarest animals in order to save our children.

Aim & Objectives

• To create awareness about the rare animals live in the word.
• To let the public know about the life organism of rare animals.
•  To ignite public support to protect rarest animals

Motivation

As a user the unique life and beauty of these rarest animals life. It will be very sad to let it being destroyed by us and action must be taken before it is too late.

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

~ Martin Buber ~

Ideation or concept (updates)

Create an augmented reality environment that showing rarest animals through mobile phones. Everyone owns a mobile phone now and future, through this way, everyone might have the change to know more about rarest animals and the important of rarest animals present in our earth. Creating awareness & lets hope this is not the only way our children can see rarest animals in the future.

So my idea is to create an augmented reality platform that can be view through the mobile phones. 3D animated rarest animals will be created and locate them using GPS at specific spots around an area (Campus, city area etc.) using their mobile phones. 3D rarest animals can be selected and show the information of the animals such as its name, where it can be found in the earth and some other information about the location where they live. Other than that, user will be able to see where is the real rarest animals.

Review, Analysis and Precedent Studies

Through the mobile phone we show the rare animals which are living on earth and we have to save them.

References

http://www.greenexpander.com/2007/10/01/the-10-rarest-animals-in-the-world/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My70c--irh4

Ideation 3

Title

Climatique (Climate Cycle)
Background

Climates encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements and their variations over periods up to two weeks.
The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, and altitude, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents. Climates can be classified according to the average and the typical ranges of different variables, most commonly temperature and precipitation. The most commonly used classification scheme was originally developed by Wladimir Köppen. The Thornthwaite system, in use since 1948, incorporates evapotranspiration in addition to temperature and precipitation information and is used in studying animal species diversity and potential impacts of climate changes. The Bergeron and Spatial Synoptic Classification systems focus on the origin of air masses that define the climate of a region.

Problem Identification

Every day, earth becomes more and more polluted. Air pollution fills our lungs with deadly substances. Water pollution is rapidly eradicating what little freshwater we have left. Land pollution is causing once-fertile lands to become little more than deserts. While many solutions have been offered, NONE are successful. But there is hope! A REAL solution exists—overlooked by environmentalists, government agencies and scientists!

Now days whether of the world is polluted. Pale climatology is the study of past climate over a great period of the Earth's history. It uses evidence from ice sheets, tree rings, sediments, coral, and rocks to determine the past state of the climate. It demonstrates periods of stability and periods of change and can indicate whether changes follow patterns such as regular cycles.

To create the Climatique I would like to show public that the climate is changing since 1850-2012 and they can see how everything will change when the climate change.

Aim & Objectives

o To create awareness about the important of life on the earth.
o To let public know about how the earth is changing when the climate will change.
o To ignite public support to protect our earth.

Motivation

As a human I’m seeing that the climate is changing and from the Antarctic which is cold and icy going through the hot because of the Ozone Layer and the beauty of that is destroying because of a bad whether.
It will be very sad to let it being destroyed by us and action must be taken before it is too late.
“Strange is our situation here upon earth.
- Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist 1879-1955

Ideation or concept (updates)

Climate is a very important matter in human’s life and with create that showing the climate is changing since 1850-2012 and in the future will change more, Everyone might have the change to know more about the climate and its presents how the earth is changing when the climate will change.
Climatique has a muter, speakers, phidgets and later on an USB-HID serial interface device from Leobodnar, 4 linear sliders (and 4 light sensors which I ended up not using) and one projector. It is created and presented on a Mac OSX, using software Quartz Composer for the graphics and the interaction, and Ableton Live for the sound.
Climatique will have 4 hot spots / interactive spots / sliders which the visitors use. Each of these hold one dataset related to climate change. So if you touch / move the slider, the work activates in front of you and you can choose a certain year from the time range of that dataset. For example, the world annual mean temperature has been measured from 1850-2009 at least at the Met Office dataset I am using. Moving that slider right or left will then give you different years.

Review, Analysis and Precedent Studies

Climate is changing since 1850-2012 on the floor and the public will experience and choose a year from 1980-2012 to see what happened in the past ad what is happening when the climate change.

References

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmRyJaBPvD0

http://vimeo.com/230535