Thesis

Our Project aims to create art kits for children made from recycled paper and homemade watercolors. We want to donate and distribute these kits to a preschool or shelter in our community in an act of service, as well as creating an instagram account to document our work and create step-by-step instructions of how to replicate our process. Making art can improve cognitive function and boost creativity and we want to be able to supply under-privileged communities with our eco-friendly art supplies.

Project Deliverables

1. Around 20 kits, each with a 10 page notebook(100 sheets of paper, 5 per notebook folded), a paintbrush, and a set of red, yellow, and blue paints.
2. An instagram page of tutorials and explanations about our process and how to replicate, as well as featuring and educating on the benefits of making art, why access is important, and the new necessity for eco friendly art.

Precedents

Sketches

Prototypes

Process

Next Steps

1. powder paint
2. binding notebooks
3. making packaging
4. more paper
5. further planing for social media/outreach

Feedback?

Give

Women

Votes

Green

White

Violet

Give

Women

Votes

Green

White

Violet

Green

White

Purple

Hope

Purity

Dignity

Puppet uterus

؜

؜In modern day politics while AFAB people are

actively losing rights to their own body, which we chose to symbolize through puppetry. This necklace is to be worn with the uterus pendent in the front representing the person's body, with

the puppet holders in the back representing the government being in control.

؜With the intention of representing the lack of reproductive rights in modern day U.S., we landed on the symbol of a lock and key, with the locks on bracelets representing handcuffs, to indicate the lack of bodily autonomy. The necklace aspect of this set is a key with the top being a hanger, to represent the uncomfortable truth of what abortion bans mean, and the fact that banning abortion will not end abortions, instead it will only end safe abortions.

؜Lock & Key Set

؜Based on a statistic found by the World Health Organization, every two minutes a woman dies due to a pregnancy or childbirth issue or complication.

This necklace symbolizes this, with the red gem stones representing the death of another person and each pearl representing one minute.

؜Awareness Necklace

Thesis

The eyes is a photography exhibit that highlights the scale and invasiveness of digital surveillance. By placing the viewer in an observing space looking at a collage of photographs the eyes makes the viewer feel uncomfortable and exposed by comparing online surveillance eyes. This realization makes the viewer more cautious about when and with who they share their data online.

Precedents

Process Diagram

Brainstorm and planning What is the art about? What feelings are we trying to evoke? What part of modern society are we trying to critique?

Refine ideas and plan a final piece How will final piece demonstrate our thesis? Pick a medium(s), to combine with photography.

Set up the room where we will shoot. Blackout all the windows and transparent walls. Create a controlled light environment to take photos

Assemble our final piece Glue our photos and laser cuts together.

Create prints Experiment with different types of paper and paper sizes. Experiment with printmaking.

Shoot and develop our film Spend a day in Beaver's darkroom, developing film.

؜Prototypes / Iterations

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What did you learn in this process?

1. Photography
2. Film development process
3. Print making process
4. Controlled lighting environment for photography
5. Fog machine
6. Burning photos
7. Laser cutting photos

How does having more creative freedom helped you in this OI?

1. Helped us pivot our project (went from audio to art)
2. Gave us more room for flexible art making (shoot now, assemble later)

What were the challenges?

1. Time. Wasted a week on a failed audio project. Need to think about if my idea is good or not.
2. Planning. Needed more time to develop our photos. Originally we were hopping to do cyanatype but only got one day of planning in the darkroom.

Reflections

Thesis

Nurturing Nature explores balancing routine with flexibility through furniture. Modular furniture presents a choice to users between frequent reconfiguration or keeping a piece static. This project will physically represent this choice through a custom piece of furniture, encouraging users to reflect on their relationship with modularity.

؜Kaia

Modularity

؜Kaia

؜modular furniture presents people with the option between continuously utilizing the modularity and constantly changing around their furniture, or messing around with the modularity a bit, then finding a way they like the furniture and keeping it that way permanently. we wanted to create a physical representation of that

Growth & Time

Jade

Early Sketches

؜Kaia

we did lots of sketching in the beginning of our process to aid us in figuring out the logistics of our concept. one of the main things we decided was what type of furniture would we be building, and we picked shelving. part of the reason we picked shelving is because we didn't want the selves to just be functional but also to be used to create sort of wall mosaics and shelves

1. why shelving

Design Elements

؜Modular

Flexible

Interactive

Early Prototypes

؜Kaia

some of the feedback we got on our early prototypes was that they were sort of giving a sharp vibe and it was a contrast between the flowing growing vines

Revision

Jade

Storyboard

؜Kaia

Final Iteration

؜Kaia

؜for our final iteration we landed on a dovetail and peg attachment system

Fabrication Overview

The shelves are made from layers of plywood to create a cookie cutter aesthetic. To achieve this we need to cut sixteen identical layers, then align, glue, and clamp the shelf together. Misalignment in cutting or gluing could make the modular pins useless, ruining the shelf.

Jade

Wood Cutting

Pattern Routing

CNC Routing

1. Slow
2. Inaccurate
3. At NuVu

1. Fast
2. Very Accurate
3. Not at NuVu

Jade

CNC Cutting

Jade

Final Assembly

Jade

Jade

Reflection

1. ؜Explored furniture design
2. Explored integrating nature in design
3. Learned to use CNC machining

Why Math?

Why Math?

Astrophotography

Economics

Robotics

؜Space Travel

Houdini's Magic

Physics

Art

Math = Objective universal Language to communicate our real world project needs/scope/output

Simple Harmonic Motion

NuVu's Experiments this year with Math

Computational Calculus

Home Assistive Robotics

Forward Kinematics

Inverse Kinematics

Trignometry

Akshay Jaitly

1. Working on optimization approaches to Robotics @ Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
2. Ex Boston Dynamics
3. WPI Alum

؜THESIS:

In our twice offered course, Off-the-Grid, technologies we have examined are: electrical, communication, and water grids.

This second version of Off-the-Grid studio, we worked with a client-- A project working to redevelop schools in Syria-- This collaboration provided us real world insight into the complex meaning and impact of power grids.

Working with the Syria initiative to rebuild schools which our founder, Saeed Aruda, our students created educational projects for students in Syria. These projects are designed to contribute to healing Syria's broken grid system while also teaching about art, science and technology.

OFF-THE-GRID: SYRIA EDITION

EXERCISES, VISITORS, PRECEDENTS AND ASSIGNMENTS: OFF-THE-GRID SYRIA

OFF-THE-GRID: SYRIA

SOLUTIONS FOR BUILDING RESOURCES, PLAYING SPORTS, MAKING MUSIC/CRAFTS

By GABE & NICO/ ANDREW &

SAM/ MABEL, CASPER, SAMMY/ VICTORIA & ABIGAIL/ GIBRAN & CAROLINE

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OBJECT Statement

؜SCEAMIN PILLOW is an art piece intended to evoke emotions of panic and joy.

This is done through a phycical piece that is inter to be interacted with bye passers bye.

OBJECT SKETCHES

FINAL MODEL

؜DEMO

Project Statement

To create a puzzle game built around eliminating enemies but without any conventional weapons, not even wands or any magic. The player needs to interact with the environment, connecting different facets to create interesting combos that can take out their opponents.

Core Mechanics

Grappling Hook

Gravity Orb

Time Stop

Grappling hook mockup or cyberhook

tf2 rocket jump/momentum mod or similar puzzle game concept

[speed game] stat screen at the end with time, explain rewarding players for speed

Precedents

BOTW

Portal

Titanfall 2

For this game, I wanted to make the most fun movement possible. I'm trying to go about this by analyzing games with complex movement to figure out what makes them so rewarding. I think that the reason that people like fast movement is that it's a great avenue for mechanical skill expression and creativity. This is exacerbated in well designed games, where using fast movement and speedrunning allows you to complete levels in entirely unique ways.

Movement

The enemies are built around what they are and arent weak to. depending on the level, groups of enemies can be invunrable to fire, water, electricity, etc that will prevent the player from using a certain strategy every time

Enemy Design

Gameplay

• Add a wallrunning mechanic
• Tuning the grappling hook and changing the environment so that some objects can't be hooked
• Add the gravity orb
• Create an environment to showcase the puzzle mechanics

Next Steps

Background

When we started the project we were conflicted on what exactly we wanted the project to be. We wanted to make a FPS game with Sam originally wanting to make one about casting spells, but we both thought we could do something more interesting with the genre

Thesis

Big-budget first-person shooter games have gotten stagnant, stale and content with decades-old game design. While some smaller games have moved the genre forward, we plan to create a first-person shooter without any conventional weapons, forcing players to use their creativity and problem-solving to take out their opponents. It is created in the Unity engine and written in C#

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

In the first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

Guiding design principals

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Creating the game design document

Constraints

-No trad weapons

Inspirations

-Interesting game mechanics that encourage exploration, creativity & have a high skill ceiling

-exciting player movement

-clean visual design

-intentional scaffolding of new mechanics and game complexity to keep it exciting but not overwhelming

We were specifically inspired by the

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Combat loop

Demo

Next Steps

• Improve the gravity orb player launch
• Improve the grappling hook
• Add enemies
• Add conduction effects
• General refinements to the movement
• Start working on tutorial level

Thank You!

Thesis

Adaptable Puzzles is a hand-held device that creates a way for students from grades 6th-9th to expand their critical thinking through puzzle solving while staying relaxed.

Wesley

Wesley

Precedent

Lo-Fi

Bradley

Bradley

Crank

Magnetic Cube

Puzzle Box

Difficulties

Wesley

Wesley

Bradley

Drawer

Crank

Layered Puzzle Box

Bradley

Bradley

Bradley

Second Puzzle Concept

Wesley

Precedent

Lo-Fi

Wesley

Bradley

Third Puzzle Concept

Bradley

Wesley

Bradley

Wesley

Bradley

Challenges:

• Create clear project pitch
• Had trouble creating ideas in a physical form.

Learned/Creative Freedom:

• Push my thinking during brainstorming

Next Steps:

• Create physical product, get user testing

Challenges:

• Finishing the project
• Recourses
• Modelling mechanisms
• Creating & Conceptualizing Puzzles

Learned/Creative Freedom:

• Modeling
• Designing Puzzles

Next Steps:

• Hi-Fi Models
• Finish Crank & Drawer

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