Using Stories for Design Ideas

I found this great article about how storytelling can be more than an author driven work. Instead it can be generative and instructive to modes of design and research processes.

Stories evolve through the design process

During the design process, your use of stories will evolve as the design goes through brainstorming (generative), concept (expressive), and specification (prescriptive) stages. As the design progresses, your stories will too, changing format and adding detail.

Using Stories for Design Ideas

from JohnnyHolland.org

tracing brooklyn

An Urban Archaeology of Collisions in the Sky

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Volume as Thesis

Open publication - Free publishing - More thesis

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.

Fairy Doors

These small doors exist all around Ann Arbor, with a tale to go with them. These small scale doors appear as another world living within our own local community. We engage in it as if it were real, and they do physically exist. So when does a fictional intervention begin to play out in our real lives?

Program and Pragmatics

Rhetorical modes: Patterns of Organization
Using tropes to disguise the thing and talk about the relationship. By taking artifact and associations together with literary technique, reveals a new object itself. Rhetorical travelogues : capturing frames of events and artifacts as an agent to amplify the characteristic and genesis of “now”. What can we record and capture and what is fleeting or obsolete when those merge together. Can it rewrite a new story of place?

Accomplice: somebody helping wrongdoer: somebody who helps somebody else to commit a crime or misdeed

Wrongdoer: behavior considered wrong: behavior or an action that fails to conform to standards of law or morality

Law: the body or system of rules recognized by a community that are enforceable by established process

Process: a series of actions directed toward a specific aim, a series of natural occurrences that produce change or development

Identity, culture, tone
An accomplice because it is a specific perspective to frame the argument of new realities through parallel narratives. Possibly as an unknown accomplice, conspiracy or protege. By exploiting them and capturing an unknown voice it can not be paranoid by the outcome of the manipulations of voice.


As a feedback between a series of clients as accomplices:

One that gives (gets)

One that reacts (recieves)

One that analyzes (projects)

One that reformats (critiques)

One that gets (gives)

and loops back again...

Patterns, time, social
Because the sites have difference associations at different times it is about plucking details that may or may not reveal themselves. Time then can not act quantitative in the way each of these sites have come about today. Its an overlapping of histories.To see the past traces and overlap them out of sequence with the present and projected futures based on a new classification of criteria other than terrain vague. It can start to project new possibilities in the sites. Redux from the approach of asking what it was in the first place. These feedbacks can then inform a new hierarchy of what takes stage and how to redux based on these new values.

What then are you acting:

With?

For?

Against?

Through?

What is the reaction to the programmatic actions?

Tone?

Revelation?

Physical moves forward the action of the work and word through tangible objects. Starts to see moves through all details of a day rather than a specific ritual.
Method of working: Conscious Material and Mind
Working at a scale of creation, yet not always at one to one removes the author from the direct relationship or infact questions the direct relationship.

Space and Case

Georges Perec's book Species of Spaces and Other Pieces begins with a series of space defining terms. Through out the book he utilizes language as a medium of crafting an argument. I took this as a first exercise of exploring "____Case".