Final Project Ideas

THE SAFETY BLANKET

This would be an interactive project. I would get several different squares of white cotton fabric (or all the same colored fabric) and using different colored fabric markers ask strangers to draw on their square what their favorite part of home is. I would then piece these together to make a big quilt and call it a safety blanket!!!

 

UNWANTED STUFF..

I thought it would be really cool to (another interactive project) to ask a bunch of strangers for random objects that they had on them that they didn't mind parting with. I originally was going off the last idea and the idea of making a quilt by originally thinking of cutting a patch of fabric from people's clothes.. but then i realized people don't just cut up their clothes for strangers. The idea of collecting a random assortment of things from people would be really cool and make for a neat sculptural project, but I'm worried as to what people might give me, or not give me.. I predict a lot of pennies and gum wrappers. which wouldn't be too exciting.

REMIND ME IF I FORGET

This project would involve me having a bunch of people answer a question: "what about your life right now would you like to tell yourself in twenty years that you think you may not remember?" I'm not sure exactly how i would present this information... 

AUDACITY:

I had a lot more fun with the story telling project than I thought i would. I like the idea of taking something mildly concrete and creatively altering it's truth or meaning. I was trying to think of stories or messages that I could convey in this medium.. I'm thinking something stream-of-conscious related, or switching view points from reality to something subjective; simultaneity in a sense. (this could also be done via video montage...)

THE MAP

Finalllyyy, I continue my idea of interactive projects, nostalgia and encouraging people to reconnect with their own personal histories and experiences. (That sentence was a lot deeper than the project i had in mind). So this project would involve a map (flat would probably work best, but an inflatable globe would be really cool too) and I would have people make two marks on it for themselves: one to show where they were born or where their family if from, and one to show where they call home now. Then they would draw a line between these two marks (i would provide a ruler if they needed one). My main concern with this one is that too many people would have the same places as answers for those two questions (I would). But I was hoping to hit an audience with a wide variety of backgrounds to make the visual outcome more interesting. I could alter the questions (i.e. where were you born, where is your home and, and where is one place you want to travel in life..)