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Sharing Space
INSTALLATION | INTERACTIVE DESIGN
This interactive installation explores the idea of sharing space, and how our spaces hold overlays of all our unique experiences. Prompts invite the viewer to pick a place on the map that evokes certain feelings and memories, allowing participants to view what special meaning our shared spaces hold for others.
We often forget the layered experiences endemic to the spaces we share on our college campus. Use this map to share your campus memories.
First, pick a prompt, and mark the location on campus that comes to mind using the corresponding stamp.
Then, take it with you! Place the corresponding pin outside of your location. You may also write a note on it, sharing your experience for others to see!
COLLATERAL
Process
The Prompt:
If you could use design to impact the public, what would you do?
Designers often find themselves at the center of change. Over the year, millions of people have protested, donated, and shared online for various causes and movement. This project focuses on the central idea of how to amplify your own voice while encouraging others to do the same. The vision you share of your selected cause may be declarative, persuasive, poetic or personal. The future is comprised of the “what could be” and your project should explore this idea.
The Process:
I started with a sketch. I knew I wanted some sort of interactive map/wall that people could map shared experiences onto. I had begun carving stamps from erasers during my free time in studio, and I thought that incorporating that idea into the project could be interesting.
I practiced with a person stamp and used that to create a pattern for the background of the map. It includes overlapping colors and shapes to emphasize the feeling of sharing public spaces with hundreds and thousands of others, like on a college campus. I used the pattern for the back of the flag pins as well, so viewers could write a note about the place they pinned if they wanted to.
I installed the project outside Steinberg Auditorium on Washington University in St. Louis’ Danforth Campus.