Jina Lee – Looking Outwards 09

For this weeks looking outwards, I was able to go back and look through all the other projects that my classmates looked at. I found Margot Gersing’s Looking Outwards week 8 to be extremely interesting. She watched a lecture by Theo and Emily of  Design I/O from Eyeo 2012. I was intrigued with what this studio does particularly their interactive shadow hand puppets project: Puppet Parade. 

I thought it was cool that the reason they create these projects is to encourage children to explore and openly play. One of their projects is a game about sharing resources and sustainability and the children not only have to interact with the program but also each other in order to keep up the simulation. They use the Kinect tracking device quite a lot in their projects and hack it different ways to do what they want, like make giant animated. While looking at this project, even though it is for children, for me it seems fun and a design that I would like to interact with.