CREATING THE BRIEF

Exhausting a place in Dalmarnock

Brief: What We Do

FINAL YEAR PROJECT

Aims:

Explore our relationship with the data we consume and give away each and every day.
Focusing on impacts of technological developments in society interrogating typologies we often associate with such as the library, the archive, and the museum.
As a species, we are constantly learning yet we seem unable to use this knowledge to empower and continue to allow our information to be used against us.

Through exploring data, I will develop a user experience within the site. Researching artists, designers and theorists alike such as James Birdle, Jean Baudrillard and Dunne and Raby and other examples of innovative and forward-thinking design, speculative and real. Acknowledging that the way we design must be challenged in reaction to our currently global situation.
Having explored different variations of the space inhabiting it with typologies such as a library, archive, museum, museum store and storage facility I engage the viewer familiarising the site, questioning the information inhabiting physical space.
Exploring new technologies such as AR and VR through manipulation of Vectorworks software to present speculative visions for the space.
Creating algorithms through data acquisition I created a maze which moves the user from Entrance-Exit of the space further familiarising the site whilst looking at the surveillance techniques used by corporations. Illuminating the physical movements of the human body as it moves through the space manipulated by algorithmic obedience.

The research allows users to question the content of the data they give away each day.

The space facilitates the everyday needs of humans such as W.C, Cafe and seating whilst manoeuvring them physically within the space to illuminate the misuses of our data as well as the repercussions of creating vast quantities of matter hopeful that the user feels enlightened and able to take control of their own future.