During the "Work in Progress" show I talked with people, discussed what they think about my project and the approach I chose for it, and also collected a number of ideas, with which people decided to respond to my four initial science-fiction scenarios. All of them concerned future.
These are the responses:
sound travel (surfing electroacoustic waves)
upbringing accompanied by sounds (audio), (also during pregnancy)
emotions triggers orgasms
brave new world
acoustic medicine
silent warfare (6.45pm)
an orchestrated, choreographed apocalypse
retro-active sound-reactive transport density
limit one sense, increase one sense
audio warfares (instead of military)
adaptation
healing + preservation of natural ability
sonic hygiene / beauty products
sound for digestion
sound gym
sound addiction - need to play ambient city sound to fall asleep
no more tools! Please! Let’s just deal / change the soundscape that exists?! LAWS against noise, haha? Or everything ‘just’ needs to be designed quiter? :)
sound encryption of thinking
soundophonic theater — replace cinema, providing a full sound experience
smart earplugs - that block out unwanted sounds but allow wanted sounds to be heard clearly
In my opinion, all these responses hold great potential for further exploration and development. But their main strength lies in their number. Therefore, I wish to use them and the general direction that they point at in the next part of my project—developing regular science-fiction scenarios and design objects with a story behind them. Having all that in plans, I am already thinking of various ways to go forward with my project and my general fictive approach towards designing. But this is a different story...
