Design Conjecture Arts and Culture

This design conjecture pulls from the Arts and Culture literary reviews. These works stress the importance of creative thinking. Andrew Ashley highlights the importance of whimsy within the cityscape, and similarly another article touches on the benefits of public art including improving perceived safety, inclusion, economy, and quality of life. Initiatives to recycle wind turbines and the Dublin Corn sculpture also stress the importance of out of the box thinking to heighten interaction and increase community well being.  

For this design I wanted to foster this whimsy and highlight individual interaction. It pulls heavily from Jolie Ngo’s sculptural style, which is based on a lot of patterns for 3D printing and plastic materiality.  

I wanted to focus on artifacts common to cityscapes, so I pictured a planter pot, a table with umbrella, and a chair. These are highly textured, with many rivets to invite tactile interactions as well as celebrate materiality. When someone initiates touch, the furniture reacts with a pulsing light that travels across all the separate pieces. All these small parts reacting in tandem illustrate how they are part of one larger whole, much like the community is made of many individuals.