Titulo Estágio
The Imagination Engine
Local do Estágio
CISUC Interactive Media Lab
Enquadramento
"Into a day break miraculously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave.
I am the hope and the dream of the slave.
And so I rise
I rise
I rise.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
poem by Maya Angelou
The most powerful reality engine is the human imagination.
What does it feed on? How does it play?
How can we make advantage of our imagination?
Can you drive your engine somewhere you want?
If you let go, do you share where it takes you?
Could we share our imagination? Make it a collective?
Can we build shared imagination engines? How?
Objetivo
This is a Science through Art research agenda; it demands a sharp, insatiable, persistent but open mind. Do you have one of those?
This project aims to clarify some of the questions around the main theme: How does interactive media influence imagination?
To address this, we intend to explore design research methods through modding one of the latest, long-awaited PS4 game Dreams, to gather knowledge in two strands of research: how do people interact, individually or collaboratively, with a digital media which allows them to create; and how can this creative mind be stirred to unleash the player’s imagination.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
We will adopt a radical prototyping approach to "Research through Design“, monthly time-boxed, approach, based on the following activity cycle:
A1: read on state of the art
A2: design+prototype quickly
A3: experiment more
A4: listen, observe people interact
A5: document and reflect, a lot
A6: write what you think
A7: goto A1
All these supported on cutting-edge methods in HCI/CSCW/Design
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
We will adopt a radical prototyping approach to "Research through Design“, monthly time-boxed, approach, based on the following activity cycle:
A1: read on state of the art
A2: design+prototype quickly
A3: experiment more
A4: listen, observe people interact
A5: document and reflect, a lot
A6: write what you think
A7: goto A1
All these supported on cutting-edge methods in HCI/CSCW/Design
Condições
NA
Observações
NA
Orientador
Licinio Gomes Roque
lir@dei.uc.pt 📩