A brief overview of my journey at the MIT Media Labs' design innovation workshop at PDPU Gandhinagar, held on Jan 2015.
The process followed at the workshop, the product and my takeaways from the workshop.
5. Civic Innovation
Synthetic Biology
Smart Textiles
Synchronous Tools
Immersive Storytelling
Sensors Across Scales
Lifelong Learning
Enabling Tools
Creating Engaging Playful Experiences
Tracks
Networked Playscapes
Aim:
To explore the track and to create
installations that will make up a
networked playscape.
7. Day 1
Understanding
“Open areas where one can play and interact with others”
Day 1: Understanding Networked Playscapes
• Connected Playscapes
• Telepresence
• Responsive Playscapes
• Playscapes that encourage
networking and interaction
Initial Understanding
8. Day 1
Understanding
“Open areas where one can play and interact with others”
Day 1: Understanding Networked Playscapes
Taking physical and digital, re-imagining and creating play-scapes that merge the
best of both worlds; engaging bodies, minds and people together.
10. Day 2: Understanding “Play”
Adalaj Stepwell Riverfront Park Ravivari Market
Understanding the definition of “Play” in different contexts, and scenarios for different
people. A trip was made throughout the city to places with very different characteristics,
which in turn produced starkly different user behaviour and hence their own personal
definition of Play