CULTURAL

• how making can contribute to making or promoting of social sustainability
• the contribution happening in the making
• changing of opinions?
• promotion of social justice?
• promotion of positive change?

ARTIFACT

• need for something material
• objects that create a discursive environment
• mechanism of unity
• what is the dialogue between the digital and the handmade?
• is there a unifying whole that results in doing both?

PUBLIC SPACE/SOCIAL

• the public space we now occupy to includes digital means
• how to utilize this digital space (both/and) in order to foster the unification of people together
• how do we make the pieces work together to unify us in physical space
• speaking to the use of it and the necessity of it in this culture
• the oscillation between both worlds (digital and physical)
• electronics are isolating/alienating, and they are unifying
• use them to help unify the physical space
• conversation and dialogue of pieces

RESEARCH

• research is meant to help inform the making and the choices I’m making in what I make and how I make and how I present
• research of other works that speak to my project
• how are others doing this/how are they thinking about this problem
• architecture seems to be addressing public space
• public artworks
• industrial design world
• graphic design addresses public spaces