During the process of the first practical attempts, I had to decide on a different composition concept. The reasons are:
- composition feels not clear enough, concerning the fact, that it should be 'arty' and beautiful like a garden, but still the INTERACTION with protagonists is the most difficult and most important part of this whole room --> the more wool is 'hanging around' in space and attracting the focus of the protagonists it will be a distraction for the textile electronic parts--> room and wool composition must show some kind of structure and still be elaborate and ornate.
- difficulty to estimate the need of material. The floor should be almost covered to have an intense haptic experience with the feet, but therefore the material is insufficient. Limiting factors such as time (more wool would need to be produced by "Bernegger Spinnerei", production time three weeks) and budget (I am still a student and not earning any money, the project is already at 600 CHF.. ) brought me to the decision that I want to deal with that amount of material I now have. It is also a question of sustainability, if this project is "sustainable" at all....
See the NEW CONCEPT in first sketches below. The floor still will be covered almost completly. There will be smaller and bigger holes in it, so there is haptic experience of the naked feet ("please take shoes off") of the difference between WOOL and probably cold CONCRETE FLOOR of the exhibitions space.
Then on the three walls (when entering 1=left, 2=middle/straight, 3=right) the wall carpet will go from top to bottom in an approx. 60cm stripe.
The bottom then will be connected in a round curve with the floor carpet. The idea is to suggest an imagination of a half round room shape, like a hand with towering fingers on the sides and you are standing in the palm of the hand.
color explanation:
red=wool
yellow= conductive material (speaker coil, sensor)
turquise= sensor recognition color (will be turquise fabric)
dark grey= electronics and circuits
