Being able to understand my experiences, thoughts, and emotions play a huge role in how I take on life. Having time dedicated towards reflecting and documenting the past and present, (recent or not) helps me understand myself and my way of thinking. I also find it fun to look back on previous moments throughout my life, with seeing and appreciating the different changes and experiences that happen throughout time.

However, each day, week, and month, I "don't seem to have enough time" for those moments to get back in touch with myself. With the distraction of social media and the online world, it is now rare that I take moments for reflection and to just be present.

So when starting off capstone, I made the choice of creating a large scale installation to challenge my high fidelity physical protyping, along with allowing myself and others to take time for themselves in an interactive space.

Background

• Focusing on staying presents/ in the moment/ slowing down
• time for reflection
• time for yourself
• physical interaction with the space
• adding to the space
• creating/ visualizing your own path while seeing /connecting with others' paths (?)
• colorful - visual interest
• tactile - interactive interest/ curiosity (?)
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Personal: Why does it matter to me? Why did I choose this?

intro

• too much time wasted/ spent on my phone/ Instagram
• wanting to take more time each day for reflection
• wanting to take time to record the happier good moments that happen in the everyday life
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add another sentance about/ introducing making a larger installation

alsos people to pause and reflect

This is why I decided to focus my capstone on an interactive exhibition that would allow people to reflect on their life journey and be in the present moment.

Research Says...

Memory

Emotions

Experiences

In this process I started to dig deeper into research to better understand the effect of our current culture on youth mental health - social media bla blah- and how memories are formed and how it connect with emotions

• Emotions:
• decreases emotional well being with over consumption/ other
• Memory:
• can decrease the strength of holding onto memories - especially when getting older in age
• over usage of phone/ social media etc also takes away time for creating more core memories and experiences

Paula as my advisor, - creating goals / pinpointing design elements etc

shes a deisgn coach from nuvu that helped me with my concept development

john with the fabrication production

Picture of John

Advisor & Special Thanks

Paula Garza Gonzales

John Mendizabal

Design Coach

Physocal Fabrication

Wonderspaces - Austin TX Looking for Inspiration

Path Patterns is an interactive and immersive installation that encourages people to reflect in the present moment. The installation is based around us living in a fast-paced culture and fosters people to get back in touch with themselves and their surroundings.

The user chooses a colored yarn and weaves their own visual representation of their path that brought them to who they are today. Users start their weaving in a panel and wall of their choice, and add as much of a design as they want. Their choice of color and visual exploration will help them further reflect on their paths and how they interact with others'.

Project Statement

• focusing on staying presents/ in the moment/ slowing down
• time for reflection
• time for yourself
• physical interaction with the space
• adding to the space
• creating/ visualizing your own path while seeing /connecting with others' paths (?)
• colorful - visual interest
• tactile - interactive interest/ curiosity (?)
• path/ path in life

• encouraging thoughtfulness, staying in the moment, and reflection

where people are reflecting on a memory and representing it through threading and weaving in a panel.

What to prompt people with? reflective question

 installation's form

interactivity of people

Elements of Design

- User & Form -

user and form

Installation Form/ Visual Structure

User Interactions With The Space

User Experience & Reflection

form= organic vs orthogonal, be intrigued by the visuals

user experience = reflection prompt, talk about all the iterative prompts, have fun

user interactions = how are people entering the installation, moving, interacting with one another, pause staying in the moment, be immersed

physical experience vs mental experience

[more sketches/ structure ideas]

say "why" about each sketches/ how did i do that with the sketches

Prototype 1

(oragami boxes)

[more sketches/ structure ideas]

sketch model

Material / Form Finding

Form Tests

prompts - (add sample of journal?)

Data Collection Prompts

• Sketching "small" things I notice or experience throughout each day
• What are

• joy
• gratitude
• openness

Prompt Iteration 1:

What’s a moment in your life that you appreciate?

(Something/ someone you cherish, something that someone did for/ with you, a core memory, a collection of moments, etc,)

Prompt Iteration 2:

Reflect on your day-to-day, what is something that you might take for granted but makes your day a little brighter?

Final Prompt:

Think about the path you took, today or the path that you have taken over time to bring you to this moment. “As you weave your path, think about the people you encountered, the feelings, and special moments.” Be thoughtful with the colors and shapes you create, reflecting your journey and others’ paths.

…or just play around with creating different shapes with various colors!

Elements of Design

- User & Form -

Installation Form/ Visual Structure

User Interactions With The Space

User Experience & Reflection

after figuring out these 3 pillars of design for the project, I then moved on to the final concept and fabrication phase

Small Scaled Prototype

Final Construction Process

final photos

Thank You!

Capstone 2024 Final Review || Lalita Bellach

Inspiration

Background

• Change and growth result from taking risks and engaging in life experiments.
• The brain learns best when actively engaged and working, according to research from Princeton and Indiana University.
• Effortful learning signals deeper and more durable knowledge, enhancing the effectiveness of the learning process.
• Effective learning involves identifying knowledge gaps, practicing application, and synthesizing learned information for a comprehensive understanding.
• Mentors can encourage artists to step out of their comfort zone and take creative risks. as well as challenging them to explore new themes and ideas in their art.
• We can observe a shift in our thinking and creative expression when working in new mediums.

Mentorship

Mediums

Scale

Joan Hanley

https://hanleystudio.com/

Methodology

Medium Selection

Practice & Planning

Execution

• Create multiple works using different mediums
• Gain familiarity with the mediums I may use (gouache, acrylic, oil)
• Pick a medium to use for my final

• Brainstorm ideas for the final piece through sketches and fast paintings
• Further practice my mediums

• Use my sketches to guide the process of my final work
• Paint big

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So What..?

End -> process -> end

Bigger text

Format consistancy

Align titles

What makes a team excited

Define for a team

Bucket analogy

Chronological format?

NM = Negative momentum

PM = Positive Momentum

Identifying and targeting (and reversing?) sources of negative Psychological Momentum within players will increase their performance. Teams with more resistance to negative Psychological Momentum will perform better in comparison to teams with low tolerance.

Psychological Momentum is usually described as having a ‘hot hand’, or being ‘in the zone’. Typically, the athlete or team with a positive PM will experience a significant increase in feelings of control, confidence, optimism, and energy.

Under a sports psychology lens, maintaining momentum is a battle of attrition. There is little evidence that shows quantitative, positive effects after increasing momentum, the loss of positive momentum can be devastating.

Flag any PM relations

End Goals | Ajusted

Media Generated:

• 1-2 posters per game, 10 - 20 total
• 1 reel per week, 3 total
• Order high quality flag/flagpole for team use

Outlooks Shifted:

• Measure 1 player's outlook over the rest of capstone via interview, 8 games/interviews total

Plays created:

• Create 3 plays to generate momentum, observe in games

Ideally:

• Increase in interest in frisbee at SHS
• Increase Somerville's "spirit score" at tournaments
• Increase performance at games

Interview objectives - primary

• Find areas to improve PM and negative resistance
• Identify team weaknesses/strengths, interview others accordingly
• Flex goal, user specific

Objectives - secondary

• Form a closer friendship 
• Create a supportive network for venting within team

• Sideline support is effective
• Positive feedback for difficult tasks is important on the field.
• Coach has significant impact on team before start of game
• Momentum loss is pretty unavoidable when everyone is tired, but it can be mitigated

Maybe I could create In-Game Strategy to shift momentum?

Most plays that shift the momentum in a game were created with scoring in mind. The plays that I create will be based on generating tactical momentum.

Trick Plays - Shift Momentum

"Flex" Plays - Maintain Momentum

3 Man Weave - Tactically sound, Exhibit Mastery

"Old Reliable" - Risky, but if successful lots of momentum

Most plays are ment to score, with momentum as a side effect. I want to flip that dynamic.

“Tactical Momentum” - A plan for subverting negative and maintaining positive momentum/morale/energy/PM during a particular moment during a match or tourney

Current Directions

• Traditional plays, shifting the momentum by creating tactical success on field via ‘big plays’ or moments of mastery
• Sideline engagement, shifting the momentum via sideline engagement off field. Cheering plays/active sideline [informed by interview]
• Reward players who do the ‘dirty jobs’ on the field. Good defense, stuff that won’t make the highlight reel but is crucial to overall advantage, ect. [informed by interview]

Traditional and sideline plays should be blended for maximum effect

Split Stack | Flex Play

Malloy's Play | Big Play

Rolling

232 defense

• Plays were difficult to clear and implement because of their impact on the game.
• Significantly difficult to create original plays that work & shift momentum.

Is there a way I can impact the team outside a game?

Flag is inspo -> What makes a great team? -> Diversified perspectives -> In game strategy

Combine Branding and

• Working with potential lines, working to see what fits
• Who are we?
• Used Track & Field photos because none were available

STILL HERE: Patriots Super Bowl 53 Hype Video

Red Sox Instagram account

Methodology/process

Project goal -> ind. Goals -> strategies -> Process -> Effects (who is the target) -> Project goal

Inspo (why) -> Research -> Project goals -> Process

Media | Psychological | Strategy

How can I use Villen's brand to excite others?

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