Internship CLOSER

Today (17th of march) is my birthday so it was a relaxing day.
After our meeting we eat some pancakes (made by Shauna and Connie) and the chocolate cupcakes, I baked.

The meeting was about what we were going to do for the discussion and getting things in order.

Our work space at V2 was going to be painted. So we decided that we would work at Shauna's home. It was nice to have a different scenery to work in.

We mostly tried to get a bit organized for the small presentation on monday.

Nothing more to mention.

In the morning we had a short meeting and we thought about how to present our ideas.

After getting some lunch we went to Hilversum to visit the Beeld en Geluid Archive. We gotten a tour of the archive it self. We also checked out the experience.

I felt that the experience was more family and kids orientated. They had some great parts to the whole thing. What I mostly missed was the more direct connection to the archive. Even though we are allowed to search through the archive the playful or creative element is not there (yet).

I worked mostly on my concept based on trading card game. The things that I want to add to make it complete are as follows:

- Social network (the "card" collecting)
- Physical artifact (the device that is the "cards" or can share the "cards")
- Game play (using the "cards" to play)
- Story (think like quests, found in games like WOW only real live)

The games like magic and WOW are the kind of framework I want to base this concept on.

-image, jet to scan in-

My next researching path will be about Archive Bomb (think of flash mob) and the artifacts that can be used for my card game.

Flash Mob inspiration list
Impress Flexible Display (see post physical connection)
War of worlds radio

Interactive Window


Interactive floor/wall

Today was an meeting of the whole V2 staff and we had to introduce ourselves. After this we went back into our "cave" and shared our first concepts.

I noticed that I had a bit more specific concept but not really a good overview on what direct that goes to. But everyone had some interesting views and fragments to think about.

At 14.00 we had a meeting with the archive team of V2. It was an interesting discussion. Arie was very dominating in the conversation, I wished I had heard a bit more from Annabel(also an intern).

Two of our team members had to leave early, around 16.00. So we left it at that for now and begin again in the morning.

Oh and the rain made a nice sound on the windows all day.