Device [Abstract]
Thesis Design Development
Devices
Abstract
Observers are people, animals, or machines able to learn about their environment and impelled to reduce their uncertainty about events which occur in it…
As observers we expect the environment to change and try to describe those features that remain unchanged with the passage of time…
An ‘assembly’ is the dynamic part of an observer’s environment, a piece of the real world…
Gordon Pask, An Approach to Cybernetics, 1961
Attempting through diagrams to draw out and analyse recordable or measurable qualities from our environment – or, more specifically, one particular environment – Regent’s Park.
This task aimed to start experimenting with devices that will engage with the real world; devices that tap into the complex sophistication of physical systems; of nature and interaction.
Task
From the Mapping and Diagramming exercise the research of interests had been triggered the response to the conditions found in Regent’s Park.
A digital/technological component was needed. A working device that taps into the environment and responds to it . This device would be the foundation for the thesis project and to build on the subject of the diagramming and mapping in Regent’s Park exercise.
Also Interface boards like Arduino would provide an ideal mechanism to process data from outside the box . The device would aim to measure or record, or to intend to enhance or change a perception. It could have been independent or prosthetic.
