Discussions about the assignment

When i was first given this assignment, i didnt understand it much. I didnt get what interventions meant nor even how to start going about this project. Thought after one of the lecture, i began to understand what was being asked of me. I have to produce either a news report or an advert for a new invention or gadget. Yet rather than trying to create the product, its about the social effects and impact on the public.


After discussing it with Mike and agreeing that my idea has scope, I decided that my idea shall be a Teleportation Watch. The idea is that the user selects the destination on the dial, hit the side button and then they shall be modularly transports to the desired place. Next I need to research for teleportation, and the problems and benefits of the technology.

Here is a video about the movie Jumper which is all about teleportation, and the science behind it:

Asssignment 3- Interventions

Here is the brief for this next assignment:

“Give me another 24 hours, and I'll give you a machine which no none will be able to tell from a human being.” Rotwang, Metropolis, 1926.

“In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin.”Marshall McLuhan 1964.

“We are at the farthest point of time!... Why look behind us when we should be crashing down the doors of the impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We are now living in the absolute since we have created eternal omnipresent speed.”F.T. Marinetti. 1909

The Interstices Project requires you to explore, analyse and design an ‘interface’. The outcome of this activity will be to develop a ‘representation’ of a specific future, contemporary or redundant technology operating in a social environment. This representation may take the form of an T.V./multimedia ‘advert’ or sales promotion for the ‘product/activity’, a short documentary about the ‘product/activity’ (e.g. News footage/report), a simulation that provides a real experience of the ‘product/activity’.

There are many possibilities, however your project must be based on an extrapolation of current technology/social practice/cultural phenomena/documented hypothesis, and not just whimsical speculation, i.e. the end of Western Civilisation following a bacterial infection which turns out to be microscopic Chinese following the self-miniaturisation of the entire Chinese population.... (see “Slapstick or Lonesome no more’ Kurt Vonnegut)...

Requirements:A: Design documentation and output of negotiated process.