THESIS PROJECT // cu·rio Creative Charrette

Daniela Gill + Youmna Aoukar 11 / 06 / 12

DOMAINS /

PRODUCTFINE ART INSTALLATION

COMMUNICATION

NARRATIVE

EXPERIENCE

MULTISENSORIAL

HUMOR

PLAY

CHARACTERS

WORKENVIRONMENT

TOYS

CONSUMABLE

AMBIGUITY

FICTIONAL

PERFORMANCE

Balanced

Enjoyable

Imaginative

Collaborative

CONCEPT /

Traditional

Boring

Monotonous

To design a completely new workplace ecosystem

STATEMENT /

We are producing a series of fictional stories that will be inspired by real life experiences

that people have had in their workplace.

Each story, will feature particular characters who will be telling their experiences and

showing what strategies/tactics they employ in order to cope with specific situations.

They will do this through the invention of objects that will serve to aid the situations, thus

making his/her life within the workplace easier on a daily basis.

TARGET AUDIENCE /

PRIMARY /Workers

SECONDARY /Founders, janitorial staff, security, other people within the office ecosystem. People who will witness the performance / interaction of workers with products.

TERTIARY /Public in general - gallery goers, curators, design theorists, design peers.

PRECEDENTS / REFERENCES /

The Pope’s Stubborn Pen

Interaction Relabelling and Extreme Characters: Methods for Exploring Aesthetic Interactions by J.P. Djajadiningrat, W.W. Gaver and J.W. Frens.

PRECEDENTS / REFERENCES /The Museum of Innocence & novel by Orphan Pamuk

PRECEDENTS / REFERENCES /McSweeney’s Issue 36: Man In the Box by McSweeney’s

PRECEDENTS / REFERENCES /Building Stories by Chris Ware

cu·rio aimed to give people the creative methodology to express themselves in a challenging way.

Each participant shared his/her stories about his/her work experiences while making incredible physical inventions and tricks.

Using scrappy materials, they created great stories by making an amazing office object.

Invites : 12 people Target : Professional workers

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio /

cu·rio

a curious, rare and unusual object of art or piece of bric-a-brac.

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / definition

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / pre-production / promotion

- Designed the identity (logo) / a invitation email / poster / eventbrite promotion

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / pre-production / booklet

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / pre-production / setting

Location: 2 W 13th street, 10th floor

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / pre-production / materials

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / production / introductions

Group 1 Group 2

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / production / tell your story

books,postits,pen,iphone,lipstick,headphones,plate,scissors...

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / production / make

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / production / act

The creeper

Bedazzled binoculars

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / production / act

Sleepy-face

nice-no

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / production / act

Forrest

Cam-talk

PROTOTYPE / cu·rio / post-production / feedback

NEXT STEPS /

- cu·rio 2.0 / Based on feedback, we will iterate the charrette and hold a

more formal one with strangers.

- Start writing the stories & developing the characters.

- Iterate using the objects designed by curio

- Interview Caroline Woolard co-founder of Tradeschool

- Interview Brad Hargreaves founder of General Assembly

QUESTIONS ? /