One Last Award - And it goes to Pimp My Ride!

Sense and the City website

check it out!!!



the official Sense and the City website is here!

http://two.fsphost.com/senseandthecity/

yay!

Photos from Break The Law

'twas a fabulous day. . . thanks to everyone.

-Jesse













'twas a great day. . .

And the award goes to....

After much discussion and debate, we, the Graffti class have decided that we are going to award...

THE BIG BANG

with the much coveted but rarley attained...

BEST GANG award!

Congratulations!

Your interaction brought the park to life, and included everyone that heard it.

As your Prize, we as a class have compiled a box of trophies that are available to you in the Interaction Design classroom, underneath the memory map.

Feel free to come by and pick up your awards! Pick one award only!

Congratulations once again,

Bardia, on behalf of

Mike and Jesse’s Principles of Interaction Design class

The Most Eco-UNfriendly award goes to...

... the Break the Law/Make Art project.
Although it's a really cool project and has a great impact, the Food Fighters have decided to award you "the most eco-unfriendly" award. On your behalf, the food fighters have donated $20 to T.E.A. (Toronto Environmental Association).
Your award certificate is on display in room 1420.

Activate the Park! more pics

Here are some more. . . .enjoy!

Activate the Park!

Here are some highlights from our fantastic day in the Park!

Congratulations everyone - to all classes, students, projects, faculty and class assistants... to everyone who participated and worked so hard on all of the great projects, to create such a fun day.

Check out the postings on the Torontoist blog too - the link is in the title.

Break The Law/ Make Art e-mail

For those of you who decided to take one of the several panels home, here is the e-mail if it could not be read on its back:

approvedgraf@hotmail.com

Please e-mail an image (or images) of what you did with the panel you took home and a description of what happened to it. It can be as in depth as you wish, as long as you tell us where it ended up (ie. Given to family, sent to another country, etc.)

It is important you send these descriptions so that we can begin to compile a PDF that contains pictures and info on our project and will be concluded with section pertaining to what you have done with the art. The PDF will hopefully be available for download within a week or two.

Also if anyone took pictures of the Graffiti project, please send any extra pictures to the e-mail above.

Thank You

Break The Law / Make Some Art

activate the park in CA...

Canadian Architect posted a small article about Activate the Park yesterday on their website. It's just a small article, but on a site that receives thousands of hits daily.

Cheers.

This is the map of the Park

This is where your class will be located in the park.

Activate the Park - Poster Template

You can use this template. If not, this information should be included within your publicity materials.

Activate the Park! Invitation - pass it on!

Activate the Park!














First Year OCAD Interaction Design students create 15 interactive public space projects to be displayed in Butterfield Park (under the OCAD "tabletop") on March 30, 3-6pm


Toronto ON: First year interaction design students at the Ontario College of Art and Design have been charged with the task of "Activating the Park." Nestled underneath architect Will Alsop's now-famous "tabletop" is Butterfield park, a new and beautiful urban park, but one people don't linger in -- it's a space to pass through, not stop and reflect on the space or interact with others.

Each class has created an environment that will change that that will be presented from 3pm - 6pm on Thursday March 30. Projects include:

• Interactive graffiti walls
• Communal music making
• Radio controlled cars
• Human Statues
• A food fight
• A peepshow in the park
• A piñata in the park
• Paint hockey
• Giant movable cubes
• A Toronto memory map
• A race with a "randomizer"
• Giant toys
• And more…

The entire park is the canvas, and passers-by the subject. With the recent interest Toronto's public spaces, these student projects represent what happens when people look at our city's communal spaces and ask; "how can we engage people there?"

Location: Butterfield Park, south end of OCAD building, 100 McCaul Street

What is interaction design?

Interaction design is a sub-discipline of design that examines the role of embedded behaviors and intelligence in physical and virtual spaces as well as the convergence of physical and digital products. Sometimes referred to by the acronyms "IxD" or "iD," interaction design has recently developed as a field of study in a growing number of universities throughout the world. Interactive Design is concerned with a user, customer, audience, or participant's experience with a designed object, system or environment.

Sculpture garden

I went to the sculpture garden, located at 115 King Street East, near Church Street and opposite St. James' Cathedral, the Garden is both a civic and a private initiative.
Featuring a bi-annual exhibit created by various Canadian sculptors, this garden offers displays of art in a fresh outdoor setting. A walkway around the garden adds a sensual floral fragrance to experience, surrounding with beautiful flowers and art objects.
As well, the La Marquette restaurant's terrace overlooks the garden.

The Park in the Biomolecular Research Center on College St.

I went to the park inside the Geomolecuar lab on College St. Its basically a forest of bamboo trees in the entrance of the building. It has 2 main seating areas that are actually inside this small forest as well as a row of trees and a bench on the other side of the stairs. The way the park is layed out is for someone to follow the stepping stones onto a small deck with a bench to sit down.

The person would then find themselves surrounded by trees and silence, the perfect place to go and reflect. think or just relax. Its really neat because you are in this completely modern building, yet you are inside a little bamboo garden....Its very zen!

The denseness of the garden doesn't afford someone walking through it,only to follow the walkway to the bench. It doesn't afford skateboarders inside the park, but outside the building is another story! The benches are fairly big, but I don't see it holding more then 3 people before it becomes a crowed relaxation spot. It doesn't really afford playing (its a research building after all!) or loudess. I actually found this to be the most quiet place in Toronto by far...The only real noise was a fan, that was pretty quiet. It also doesn't afford any signs at all...the trees are to small..and again its inside a building!

Overall, I think the main purpose of this park is to allow the park-goer to relax and look the trees around and above. Its a very calming place, which in Toronto is most definitely needed!