Survey, a Digital Space, and a Billboard

Week one: Survey, a Digital Space, and a Billboard
- Preparing the Media Design Office

A point of departure

This week is about getting the right information for a predestinated design task. Each one of you is asked to develop his or her personal approach towards finding, sorting, documenting and presenting the information, bearing in mind that the “hard” data, whether being pics, video or audio clips, are important, but not more than a mere byproduct of the sensation of that moment of time the “hard” data is being sampled.

What to look for?
Mediated information, instructions, entertainment, images, symbols, lightscapes, soundscapes, in fact, whatever that carries a meaning (even a meaningless meaning), or a message, or something that evokes a feeling…

…that is directed to, created by, interested or sought after by…
…two specific groups of people:
- Children under the age of 15
- People on the move…

Requirement
The material being sampled needs to present a clearly definable and describable time axis.

The temporary Office
The infrastructure within which we are going to work for the entire duration of this elective is that of a miniature temporary Media Design Office. The tasks of this temporary office will require individual research as well as teamed design work. Regular office meetings and pin-ups (presentations) will be held in order to coordinate both the process and the material being produced.
A prerequisite for this temporary office is to establish and maintain a digital public space where blogs, data, material, and information can be shared and processed. Parallel to this space a physical billboard will be created through wallpapering an area of the temporary office with the research being conducted.

The EM crew