Wednesday feedback + moving forward

We presented our tsunami brief ideas in class today, and got some great feedback regarding each project.

For the big letter form one:
- is there another way to connect the letters other than spelling the word TSUNAMI?
- maybe a closer proximity of letters will result in clearer communication.
- idea is lovely - but it still has to communicate a message.
- do you make it so that the letters are legible from a certain perspective?
- still have to make it clear that its being used to raise awareness/warning - don't celebrate tsunamis!
- could try 'submerging' letters.
- could try putting information on the letters themselves.
- think on the materiality of the letters.

For the lamp posts:
- just painting a whole lamp post blue feels unresolved, how do you use heights to create communication on the lamp posts?
- can you play with the light itself and make it acts like a wave/patter/rippling?
- could there be ripples around the bottom of the lamp post - and the size and scale of those communicate a message?

I definitely wanted to continue to work on one of the tsunami briefs this week but we made it really clear that we believed the two projects needed to split back up from being a tsupergroup and become two separate projects again.

Franziska and Nicole were really keen to join the lamp post idea from the tsunami group and because I'd worked on this quite influentially last week I felt like I would be a great remainder from last week to carry over the information to these new enthusiastic members. Micky also joined us and we all went to discuss the idea and how we were going to progress it.

We bounced a lot of ideas around - Fran had lots of crazy/wacky/wild ideas and Nicole and I saw more of a need for a sensible approach so we discussed everything and agreed that whilst making wacky bendy/destroyable lamp posts would be fun - it wasn't a very well thought out idea in terms of utilising what is existing.
We talked about heights on the lamp post reflecting water levels but decided we needed to stay away from these kind of indications as it creates a false sense of security in people - thinking that if they're above that height they'll be safe when in reality it's the strength of a tsunami as well as height that is so damaging.
Because of this idea of strength we thought about putting posts on an angle to show the power but then realised this would be reallllllly hard to do!
We considered putting a narrative winding up/wrapping around the post to tell a story of history and awareness.
We thought about the lighting more and the potential of using sensors to catch peoples attention.
We thought of using the different post designs to border the different safety zones.

So we are meeting up on Friday morning to walk around these zones and take some pictures and get a feel for the space/posts.