"For the Design 4 TRANS-FOrM-ERS project, our group ' Sound(')s Good!' as per the breif are designing and constructing a structure that will transform, with sound being an impotant influence in our design. Our group has taken telecommunication, particularly phone systems where sound is the medium of communication, but not ignoring other developments in the telecommunication industry such as basic morse code, texting and the internet, as our key focus. our big ideas, if you will, are progression, interaction and netwroking, all in the sphere of telecommunication.
The progression of telecommunication interests us, as it allows for the telling of the telecommunication story. It especially drew our attention as we were inspired by the most primitive telelcom. device, the primary school experiment of the two cups attatched by a piece of string, which when pulled taut allows sound to pass between the two cups via vibrations. We could not help but it in comparison to modern day telecommunication.
As the event is to be large scale public exhibition, making it an interactive structure is obviously an important aspect of all projects, but especially so for ours, as right from the first experiment we did, it has been a highly interactive project, with the phrase "can you hear me?" repeated daily. Telecommunication has always been an interactive action, more so today than ever before as our phones are not just for calling, but texting, surfing the internet, emailing, taking photos, listening to music and having many more features.
Our third idea -that of networking comes from an interest in the telecommunication system. Nodes, mediums, technologies, and perhaps most interesting of all, the notion of communication space, or 'cyberspace' as it is commonly recognised, have captivated us, and combine to inspire our form as it develops.
We seek to make communication space tanglible and architectural, drawing on its development and its playfulness."
(written by elliot [jasmine] rice)
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