Cinematic Thinking and Design

The following lists on-going research projects:

STORIED OBJECTS (Forthcoming book by Hyun-Yeul Lee, Ph.D.)

Audio Bench Photograph

Photo: The Bench and the Human are listening to their every day.
Exemplary Project: The Audio Bench; Audio Time-lapse. [c] Hyun-Yeul Lee, All Rights Reserved.

When objects share their every day stories with their human encounters, we (human encounters) gain new perspective on how we make sense of our every day interactions and the every day world. The book explores Design Thinking in context of time, and examines how cinematic thinking contributes to objects having narrative continuity. Studies of person-and-object relationships reveal selectivity and the role for story. A future of objects is imagined.

LIVING OBSERVATORY: Auditory-Spatial Experience Design

Active Research Project: http://www.livingobservatory.org
Collaborators: Glorianna Davenport, Dale Joachim

We are physically sensing a landscape in South Eastern Massachusetts and capturing and connecting streams of live data to an immersive experience online. What stories will emerge from the landscape? Users will be able to explore, discover, and understand the evolving eco-system. Users will be able to share their experiences; experiences are captured as storied paths and shared with scientists and other inquisitive minds.

SIDE WALK: What Stories will the Sidewalk Tell You?

Active Research Project

Sidewalks are common, paved paths where humans can walk from point A to point B. On Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, the culture of walking from the East side of campus to the West side of campus is a sight not to miss. Hundreds of people traverse with destination-intention: students go to class; friends meet up for lunch; an individual goes on a leisurely walk. Could the sidewalk tell us what it experiences everyday? Could it express an abstraction of it's story to show how humans are integral and connected to time and space, past and future?

STORY BLOCK

Active Research Project

How do you chain events to push a story forward? A chain of events can cause an ambience of dramatic affairs in a story. In this piece a participant contributes different narrative states into the story stream. The profiled participant is then immersed into the life of a community block. By physically relocating the blocks in relation to other neighbors, audiences witness histrionic displays of temperament amongst neighbors on the Block.