getting inspired (again..)

Janet Eichelmans's amazing sculpture and Herman Kolgens Dust..

tweeking title,aim and question again..

RESEARCH TITLE;
A practice based investigation into co-operative development of play environments and children's experience of illness and healthcare.

AIM:
This project will explore the possibilities that play environments created with children affect their experience of illness and healthcare and contribute to alleviating anxiety.

QUESTION:
In the context of children’s healthcare, can a responsive play environment, developed using a particapatory approach, affect children’s experiences of healthcare environments?

blimp links..

http://fetemobile.ca/

http://www.c4gallery.com/artist/alan_storey/artist-alan-storey.html

http://www.airships.net/futurism

http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/ee476/FinalProjects/s2007/bt48_rsr32/bt48_rsr32/index.html

http://diydrones.ning.com/forum/topics/705844:Topic:45450

http://www.main.org/polycosmos/alta/sculptur/flying.htm

www.main.org/polycosmos/alta/sculptur/flying.htm

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1979625

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/art_from_china/index.php?page=2

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1640233.1640252

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/inflatable/

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

http://www.witas.org/isea2008/abstract/i-l/p198.html

http://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/eceprojectsland/STUDENTPROJ/published.html

situated technologies

Writing up a proposal for Interior: a State of Becoming
in Perth Australia in 2012 the call says;

The common desire to be a designer is to create and produce speculative and/or tangible works. For designers who have shifted into education and by association research practice, the framing of research through design and with design has been a challenge. Recently research authorities have broadened their fields to validate creative work in a variety of manifestations. This ‘becoming’ of creative work as research not only addresses the separation [or frustrations] for the design practitioner/educator but also prompts critical reflection on the process and fields of creative work as research.

The state of ‘becoming’ as to happen, from the verb ‘hap’ [as spontaneous event or display] is the tenet to engender creative research output for the Exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming. The curators of the exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming invite proposals from researchers in interior architecture and interior design education and practice to submit proposals of speculative and or tangible creative work for exhibition. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the 2012 IDEA Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming. Therefore similar to the call for written papers, responses to the same provocation and themes of the 2012 IDEA Symposium are sought for the exhibition. Proposals may include active and static, virtual and non-virtual, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional, constructed, speculative or performative piece/pieces or installations.

I've been looking at situated technologies as a way of framing an extension of the L.E.D Zeppelin project

some links to that here..

robotecture here

Flockwall here

which could be a good model for a work shop at ISEA 2012