travelCASE

The travel case is a tool to collect, organize and decipher elements taken away from different sites and composed into one container. As a case carried around during site studies and collection, the work of the project composes itself in real time through a series of collection actions rather than distinguishing them site by site. It is then a toolbox for the thesis to operate through its program of defining site and narrative. This is the first move of thesis, a collector for the site. From here a narrative will be created overlapping the stories and then new artifacts will be created reflecting each site through the new perspective of the author.

Labeling each portion of the case as a verb for collecting, the case asks for action to insert, arrange and collect. It then forces the user to utilize the case with multiple perspectives rather than one mode of collection.