This is tough!! My head is hearting me --- too much thinking the last days ---- anyone knows where is the switch ?
I start with some ideas but I was missing one of the key points of the assignment: Public Space. I was trying to explore the idea of making the invisible, visible. How can we represent through an object the connections between people and how can we measure/quantify that connection?
I came out with some interesting ideas that I can develop later, i guess.
So I went back to the beginning and start thinking that the " function " of this object that we will "use" in Public Spaces, is make people interact/ communicate
People <--> object && People <-- object-- > People
I thought in simple forms, like rectangles, squares, balls as a starting point in define the object. Something to be for example in a park, static or in movement, that require multiple interaction, input from people to breathe and live
Meanwhile, i remember one project i saw sometime ago, that was a wall made of wood with embedded sounds and that required that the "user" to get closed to the wall to ear the sound. I think it was in London..i don´t remember quite well... but it make me think about using sounds within the object.
Since my idea is to create something low tech and with sound, one idea is to use the participant's voice as the input. They can sing, yell, talk, speak. So people create sounds ( need somehow a place for input) and people listen to the sounds created by the others participants (place for output)