In class, we have talked a lot about transforming spaces using technology, and creating and utilizing virtual spaces with I2. Our team project seeks to experiment with the use of I2 in unusual spaces, where the space is not transformed, but rather explored for its own worth. Our spaces are explored and celebrated for their normal, seemingly mundane uses. We are interested in exploring the mundane and the ways people might interact with unusual technology in a space so "normal" that we cease to acknowledge its presence as anything other than completely utilitarian. To see pictures of examples of spaces, see my webpage.
We seek to find the unusual in the usual, by flipping our perception of what is normal. To find the extraordinary in the ordinary, by first acknowledging the potential of the ordinary to be, in fact, extraordinary.
To quote Marianne Moore:
"Nothing mundane is divine.
Nothing divine is mundane."
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