{"id":37,"date":"2016-09-04T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/project-ex\/?p=37"},"modified":"2016-09-10T23:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:16:20","slug":"37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/project-ex\/index.php\/2016\/09\/04\/37\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 (8\/28-9\/3): Getting Started!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the first post for Project Ex! \u00a0Our team of five students are Sarabeth, Dandan, Winnie, Abhi and King Kong. \u00a0Our faculty instructors are Chris Klug and Shirley Saldamarco. \u00a0Our client is Jane Bernstein, writer and Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, and her class of undergraduate students. \u00a0Our project is bringing the Museum of Broken Relationships to Pittsburgh, for a first time exhibition during the month of December 2016. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Museum of Broken Relationships<\/a>, first established in Zagreb, features an exhibition focused on real life objects that serve as representations and totems of people\u2019s lives, particularly stories related to lost relationships. \u00a0In this way, the exhibition grounds interactive storytelling with things that resonate, inspire or attract its guests. \u00a0Our job, as the ETC project team, is to work as the primary design team for the project, working with Jane and her class to design the space for both the Zagreb objects as well as Pittsburgh specific objects. \u00a0The class, in turn, works for the first few weeks of the semester to collect objects and stories from varied communities within the greater Pittsburgh area. \u00a0In addition, we will be working to design an interactive piece to the exhibit (interactivity is a goal, but we are still working through what makes the most sense as a complement to the objects), part of which may or may not include elements relating to stories of the homeless or refugee community of Pittsburgh (an element that Jane\u2019s class will coordinate regardless). \u00a0For our interactive installation, we know that we want it to elevate the space without distracting from the objects, which work as its emotional core. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this first week of production, the team decided on project roles, team schedule, equipment needs as well as coordinated client communication. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For our project roles, we assigned the following:<\/span>
\nSarabeth – Producer<\/span>
\nDandan – Programmer, Technical Art<\/span>
\nWinnie – Experience Designer, Art<\/span>
\nAbhi – Sound Designer, Art<\/span>
\nKing Kong – Lead Artist, Concept Art<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the timeline for designing this exhibition requires tight deadlines, we made sure to connect with the Museum itself, and plan to have design skype conferences with them to make sure our interpretation of their museum remains connected in spirit with the original museum. \u00a0To ensure that we remain in constant communication and planning with Jane and her class, Sarabeth will attend each meeting time, and act as a representative and reminder to the class of the practical needs and design needs of the exhibit. \u00a0For the first class, Sarabeth, Dandan and King Kong attended, along with Chris for introductions. \u00a0In turn, Jane\u2019s class has planned a visit to our project room for an introduction on what we do here at the ETC, as well as introductions with the remaining members of our design team. \u00a0We also plan to visit the exhibit space this coming week, to get a feel for its dimensions, design potential as well as limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking ahead, we will need to get a jump on planning our known variables (Zagreb objects, overall timeline) around our unknown (Pittsburgh collection, interactive space, Homeless and Refugee piece, overall budget, storage needs, legal needs, project areas of risk). \u00a0In addition, we have ETC related deadlines we need to prepare for, for instance how to show our work to faculty at 1\/4s, what we show, as well as branding for the project. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are looking forward to an incredible opportunity this semester, and seeing what this project brings!<\/span>
\nProject Ex<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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