3.0 MUTATION
23/01/17 - 18/05/17 3.1 Brief
For this project you are refining and selecting the general theme of your research, working towards the main body of your output for the year, and you will be engaging more closely with ideas of context through your design work. You will be taking the most fruitful and interesting aspects of your work in the first term, being critical and evaluative of that work and selecting an aspect to take forward, do develop and mutate the research you have already progressed to a more defined investigation, again with a tangible outcome, of a human scale installation work.
3.2 Requirements
The installation must be adaptive in some way to an environmental niche, be it very site specific, environmental specific such as changes of heat or humidity, interactive with users, or change over time. The adaption can be electronic or more straight forwardly analogue, but must demonstrate some kind of very specific adaption, marking it out from other work that has been progressed, of which you will be more and more aware as your knowledge of your chosen field progresses. Be aware of what is entirely unique about your work and develop it.
3.3 Outcomes
You will develop your ability to make unique and well made artifacts which address a very specific concept or design, making intuitively from the body of knowledge built up during the first semester. You might develop your skills in detailed artful fabrication, prototype and iteration development, precise computer modelling and visualisation, futurecasting, working with immersive technologies and interactive electronics through coding and circuit building. What other fields might you start to engage with to create your own specialist niche? Ecologists? Historians? Neuroscientists? Material scientists? Game designers? It is up to you how you develop your interest but it should be rich and engaged. Make this design niche your home and adapt to it. UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2015-16