For this week, I remained in the Moon story and had a new team to work with. Steve stayed with me but we also gained Brit, Courtney and Emma.
Unfortunately I missed the first meeting because of work so the plan for the pavillion was made without me. I idea I contributed to the group was having a weather balloon tied to the ground with a rope, When the passerby wanted to read what was on the balloon they would have to pull the balloon towards them.
The idea that the group came up with was the idea of silence in space. The sound waves that travel in space are too high of a frequency to be heard by humans. To fix this NASA created a device that could record the sounds and turn into noise that humans could hear. From this an idea was developed to have a box that people could walk in. Inside the room would be the word 'SILENCE?'. One side would be painted black so it would create the illusion of an empty room. It is not until the person got to the end of the room and turned around that they would see the word 'SILENCE?' in reflective silver being highlighted by a in hole light source. Through out this whole time the sounds of space would be playing to create an atmosphere.
Steve, Courtney and myself made a quick mock up of the model to test the size of the paper we would need for the final thing.
I was then tasked with creating the letters and question mark to be put inside a scale model along with painting paper black to line the space.
On the day itself we met early to build the model to show off to the class.
After we had presented we separated into pairs of group as discussed each others models to question 'what worked', 'what didn't' and 'if it didn't work, why?' The ideas we got from this was that the idea of having something be silent but have noise plying makes the meaning confusing. We thought about using air of headphones to simulate the NASA device so if you were not wearing the headphone you would hear no sound.
The group we paired with were doing the 'I ate an entire Camembert' story. They had created a section of a large pavilion that had tin foil on the inside. the idea was to have the person crawl through the space and as they went further and further inside the tunnel will get smaller to represent their guilt. We suggest using rubbish wrappers instead of tin foil so it is related to food and also have the tin foil done in flaps so the flaps would close up behind the person and force them to keep moving forward.
The class ended with a class wide discussion about different problems people have been having and organizing people into new groups for the following week.
