My thesis explores new ways technology can be used to create participatory platforms to collaboratively create artwork. Heroes is a projection-mapped sculpture focused on the interlocking themes of heroes, public monuments, and larger-than-life images. It also touches on the idea of permanence/impermanence of sculpture/digital art.

1. DESIGNING FOR PARTICIPATION
project idea
Thesis R&D milestone 2 // Lisa Woods CCA MFA Design, November 19, 2012

2. Heroes are larger than life.

3. We need heroes because they shape our aspirations.
Heroes symbolize the qualities we wish to possess
and the pinnacles we wish to reach.

4. Yet despite all of their power to influence us,
we’re the ones who choose them.
Most of us have many heroes throughout
our lives. Sometimes we outgrow them
and sometimes we surpass them.

6. Through a participatory project, I’m interested in uncovering our
program’s creative heroes, displaying them, and interacting with
the stories around them in an engaging and ‘monumental’ way.

7. H ER OE S
PROJECT

8. CONCEPT
The Heroes Project is an online platform,
an interactive installation, and an iPad app.

9. HOW IT WORKS
Step 1 : Submit your hero stories and images via a questionnaire.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

10. CAN YOU IMAGINE PULLING A
STUNT LIKE THIS? THE BALLS ON
THIS GUY!! SAGMEISTER KEEPS ME
ASKING MYSELF HOW OUT THERE I
CAN PUT MYSELF...
I CAME ACROSS WORK BY GRAPHIC
DESIGNER STEFAN SAGMEISTER
IN HIGH SCHOOL AND BECAME
INTERESTED WITH HIS INTRICATELY
MADE AND CLEVERLY THOUGHT OUT
BOOKS. THIS IMAGE IS THE COVER
ART FOR ‘MADE YOU LOOK.’
SAGMEISTER IS A BAD ASS AT SELF
STEFAN’S ADVENTUROUS TYPOG-
PROMOTION. IN THIS WORLD OF
RAPHY IS ALWAYS AMAZING TO ME.
OUTSOURCING AND FORGETTABLE
HIS USE OF MATERIALS AND HIS
NO-NAME DESIGNERS, HE’S A
ATTENTION TO DETAIL. MANY OF HIS
BRAND SYNONYMOUS WITH BEING
IDEAS COME FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS.
PROVOCATIVE AND OBSESSIVE.
SO I’VE BECOME DILIGENT ABOUT
KEEPING ONE TOO.

11. Step 2 : A multi-faceted hero portrait is created

12. Step 3 : It is animated with submitted content and made interactive

13. Step 3 : It is animated with submitted content and made interactive

14. Step 3 : It is animated with submitted content and made interactive

15. Step 3 : It is animated with submitted content and made interactive

16. Step 4 : All heroes are integrated into a single
large-scale interactive installation

18. Explore all heroes
through connected
iPad interface

19. Unattended,
the installation
cycles through
all the heroes

20. ecologies of participation
UNAWARE PUBLIC CONSUMERS CONTRIBUTORS COLLABORATORS META-DESIGNERS

21. Thank you.
(Have you called your mother?)