evocative object
The Star Paradox
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Drawing inspiration from one of the essays in Sherry Turkle's Evocative Objections, we were tasked with re-designing an object from our own interpretations and experiences, not necessarily in form or function, but in essence. This project is based on Mitchel Resnick's essay on stars.
The Star Paradox is a puzzle consisting of a chain of tetrahedrons that continuously folds in on itself, similar in concept to a Jacob’s Ladder toy. It draws on the paradoxical nature of stars, as both commonplace and unknown objects in our lives, to examine and explore how a seemingly simple, toy can feel familiar, while remaining a complex mystery.
Pause + Play Toy Radio
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The goal of this project was to select an object from one of the essays in Sherry Turkle’s book, Evocative Objects, and re-imagine it as a new object which function becomes a metaphor for the evocative qualities of its original form. I chose “The Radio” an object evocative for author Julian Beinart because of the little boy who made it. Constructed solely from scraps that the little boy found in the streets of Durban in South Africa, Beinart sees in this object the hope and imagination of the boy’s pure spirit as he sings when he carries it, imagining it is a real radio.
