Scale and Context
Warm Up Activity
For the warm up activity, we were shown a number of objects whose scale was increased or decreased and its context changed with it. One of them was a traffic cone. By increasing the scale of a traffic cone to a level, it became a bench for people to sit! And by decreasing the scale of the traffic cone to an extent where it became funky earrings to wear.
Main Activity
In the second activity of Think Lab, the object chosen by our group for scaling up was a 3 point charging pin of laptops. My team was extremely cooperative and we came up with ideas quickly. We started working on our individual sketches right after discussing the ideas.
We scaled up the plug and came up with the following ideas:
Dining Table
Couch
Clothing Rack
Climbing Wall
Chandelier
Shed etc..
Reflection
Today's activity was an interesting approach for me to understand how the context of an object changes if its scale is increased or decreased. It was a task to come up with new ideas without changing some features of the plug but after listing down all ideas we selected the ones in which we didn't have to change any feature of the plug.
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