Week 9 – Testing LED Fairy Lights (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 Team Members: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 Our group faced a problem when we tried to attach the LED strip to our house and flower sculptures. Unfortunately, the LED strip that we received from the Littlebird Package is too big to be…

Week 9 – Site Inspection and Concept Finalisation (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 Team Members: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 On Friday, the 5th of October, our group met with Dr. Lian Loke and Annie Winter, the production manager that can help our installation to work with the safety specifications required by the Inner West…

Week 8 – Creating Flower Sculptures & Experimenting With Sensors (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 Team Members: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 A group meeting was held on Friday to design to brainstorm the design of our flower sculptures and also to test the ultrasonic sensor we just bought. As our project is eco-friendly, each member was…

Week 7 – Brainstorming for Interactive Garden (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 Team Members: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 / Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194  Before we start with our ideation process, we created user personas based on the user observations that we have previously conducted. Since have decided to continue with the Secret Garden idea, our audience will mostly…

Week 7 – Night Visit to Skatepark (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 Team Members: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 / Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194  On 18th September, our group decided to head down to the Sydenham Skatepark to conduct another site observation session. The purpose of the trip was to decide on the exact details that we need for…

Week 6 – Movement Design and Public Participation (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 Team Members: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 / Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194  During this week’s studio session, we engaged in a few different ways in which we can gather data from movements and monitor these data for various uses, such as for educational purposes. Our guest lecturer…

Week 5 – Video Portrait (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 Team Members: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 We have interviewed Chris Pilarcik, a 29-year old skater from Sydney, Australia, who has been skateboarding for almost the entire of his life to understand the significance of skateboarding to individuals and also the emotional…

Week 5 – Gaps and Opportunities of Site (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 Team Members: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 After doing an extensive research of the skatepark and and its users, we have narrowed four main gaps of the site that we can utilise for our Ideation process: 1. We noticed that not a…

Week 4 – Night Observation & Filming Process (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 Team Members: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 On the weekend, Team RMB visited Sydenham Skatepark to conduct another round of site research and also to film the skaters to grasp a better idea of the users of the site. We arrived at…

Week 3 – Team Charter (Team RMB)

RMB (Team 12) Author: Bening Wardani – bwar5236 Team Members: Roy Yan Zibo – zyan4194 / Minyi Tsai – mtsa6146 In week 3, Team RMB sat down with the IDEA9202 tutors to receive some suggestions to improve our group charter. We have decided to breakdown the action points and tasks that are compulsory to do…