A focus on this project is on the mental +physical connections we hold with the Earth and where we hope to settle, or have mentally ruled out as an option.
Colonization coincides with its surrounding environment.
This impacts the mental +physical interactions. This also creates more ecosystems within exisiting ecosystems.
I want to focus on studying Mars + Antarctica because both regions are inhabitable, policies influence another, and it’s terrain brings forth wonder.
A lot of research is conducted in these areas, and a lot of the equipment being used as well as shelter colour’s do not seem as thought out as in other areas of inhability. It seems that functionality and non permanence is what overrides this. We are looking towards a future of settlement it would be nice to implement colour into these designs that can generate more peace for inhabitants.
Right now colour design for example a building will play with the material. If it looks purple chances are it will just stay purple. It would be cool, especially for long voyages and being encapsulated in a space for a large amount of time for the colour and material to change automatically based on the environmental conditions and feelings for a more peaceful world.
I aim for my project to be multi-versatile. It lessens waste.
This will be inclusive to all with an aim to lessen the idea that there are norms in this world. Nothing is normal. We are all unique. And everyone should be able to enjoy the same thing, in their unique way. I will be continuing to study urban ecology and different types of ecosystems.
I have been exploring VR. Right now I am at crossroads between VR and AR. They are dangerous tools. I would chose VR to immerse the viewer into the structure that changes to their emotion. I would chose AR to immerse the viewer with the real world. I would create a structure and have projections that would trigger the AR device. I am curious to learn these tools to be prepared for what is to come.
I also am going to be using Paint by google in VR to draw ideas by sketching and recording those formations of structures using the colours I find within terrain of Antarctica and Mars of colours that will naturally reflect well vs man made colour reflection. These colours will link to the mind of how certain colours make us feel and with body temperature.
These are a few of many hues I collected from my visual vocabulary. I get a lot of inspiration from reality photography.
Here are the combined colours from these two pictures, and I am drawing with them. There are overlays that are playing with opacity as well to see when light hits these colours in different ways their reaction points.
I am continuing to do this process in which I will make into a book (possiably with augmented reality?) just for people’s curiosity of the different colours that are in a setting we might not always be aware of. This perception of colour can allow people to get even more creative to play with colours within their designs.
Here are some ideas of me playing with hue from paint swatches from Home Dept. A place that people nationally get their colours for their structures from. I wanted to see how this related to the colours I pulled out from the terrain, and what we are not accessing within our own society today.
OBJECTIVE:
Steps-Process:
I believe that research is also experimentation. There are so many different questions and kidns of ways to discover.
I seperated three parts towards “steps”, but I still will continually use all these aspects during the whole process:
- Focusing on the terrain of both Antarctica and Mars. A lot of colours we chose impacts the effects and flow occurring in the surrounding habitat. Also again with colour swatching that is a countious project. Going to material labs andpainting places to see swatches of materials they are using to learn how light reflections and our current perception of light.
- Making more 3-D models to inspire me and see how colour plays within angles and structure.
One of some 3-D models so far were done with nature elements found on the ground within NYC:
Also, 3D sculptures in class were quite helpful for this element of process.
3. Researching air quality within Antarctica. This impacts the way people will move around the terrain. This impacts the way the design looks like and pathways are formed. In both places certain garments at the moment in time are required to keep us warm.. this might not be the case though in the future! The way we move in the space also links to our mental and physical being.
This semester so far I participated in many different orientations to find out methods that might inspire me to work with:
- Motion Capture
- X Reality Lab
- Web + Casting Lab
- Screen-printing
- Metal Shop
- Vacuum Sealing (on waiting list)
- 3D printing
- Risograph ( most sustainable way to print)
Some books out of many I have been researching out of:
- Planetary Echoes by Spector Books
- Urban Ecosystems by Frederick Alder + Colby Tanner
- Interior Design by Mini Love +Chris Grimley
A a brief sample of a ton research + resources so far:
- The Great Hack (2019)
- Jon Rafman’s video (I forgot what it is called…. when I find the link I will insert it here). It shows the formation of people following each other in society through digital video art.
- The reason why we haven’t settled so fast on Mars or the Moon is because of the access we have to drinking water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain :
“Some parts of this chaotic area have not collapsed completely—they are still formed into large mesas, so they may still contain water ice. Chaos regions formed long ago.
- Most of the chaotic terrain exists in the highlands of Mars
- Theory formed from many floods and that there were even massive floods
Many explanations involve the sudden melting of giant reservoirs of ground ice. Some researchers have suggested that a frozen layer, called a cryosphere, developed over a long time period and then something triggered it to rupture and melt suddenly. The rupturing event may have been impacts, magma movements, seismic activity, volcanic tectonic strains,increased pore pressure, or the dissociation of clathrates. A clathrate composed of carbon dioxide and methane could have explosively dissociated, thereby liquefying water-saturated sediments. A variation of this idea of a cryosphere is that an aquifer was created along with the cryosphere. As more and more ice was added resulting in a thicker cryosphere, the water in the aquifer became pressurized. When something like an impact or movement of magma broke or melted the cryosphere, floods of water under great pressure were released. However, further calculations showed that the great channels could not have been produced with just a single discharge.”
4. Maps:
5. Antarctic Discovery:
Early 1400s had the idea of Terra Australis Incognita exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Antarctica
“1473
Portuguese navigator Lopes Gonçalves proved that the equator could be crossed, and cartographers and sailors began to assume the existence of another, temperate continent to the south of the known world.
The doubling of the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 by Bartolomeu Dias first brought explorers within touch of the Antarctic cold, and proved that there was an ocean separating Africa from any Antarctic land that might exist[2]
In 1599, according to the account of Jacob le Maire, the Dutch Dirck Gerritsz Pomp observed mountainous land at latitude (64°). If so, these were the South Shetland Islands, and possibly the first European sighting of Antarctica (or offshore-lying islands belonging to it).
1771: James Cook attempts but gets stopped by an ice burg was extremely close.
1819: a few of the 644 crew of the wrecked Spanish ship of the line San Telmo might have been the first men to set foot on Antarctica before probably dying of hypothermia – but there is no proof that they did.
1820: technology helps make expeditions more possible
- a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered an ice shelf at Princess Martha Coast became the first explorers to see and officially discover the land of the continent of Antarctica.
- a British expedition captained by Edward Bransfield sighted Trinity Peninsula,
- American sealer Nathaniel Palmer sighted Antarctica
1881:
- The first landing was probably just over a year later when American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice.
1820, Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer looking for seal breeding grounds, using maps made by the Loper whaling family, sighted what is now known as the Antarctic Peninsula, located between 55 and 80 degrees west.”
6. Treaties:
- Antarctic treaty system….. https://www.ats.aq/e/ats.htm
- Outer space treaty http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html
7. Spoke with Laura Hutchinson about new ways and her experience of using VR x Audio including how to be inclusive with all mediums.
8. Listened to Gal Nissim….. give a talk about using audio and walking experience with animals in the park. Immersing the public into the parks and to be aware during all light forms.
9. Abstract episode about Ian Splatter. When he worked at Instagram and his design process.
Some keywords for this project:
I see this project as one part or introductory/developing research towards a larger goal and a collective resource.