Notes from Tues, Oct 8 brainstorm

Spaces of action

• garden
• home
• street

actors

• gardener-user
• camera
• other gardeners
• outsiders (neighbors, etc)

disjunctions / gaps

• between gardeners in the same plot, who cannot share knowledge about their shared space
• between gardeners in the same garden, who share knowledge serendipitously (and who may or may not see themselves as a "community")
• between garden and outside neighborhood -- fence and locked gate separates spaces

sources of data

• photos of garden
• weather -- sun, rain, wind, temperature
• visualization strategies (timeline, concentric circles

design suggestions

• look for analogues of garden spaces in home: places where time passes, activity amount changes, places of beauty and calm
• can we make something that could be customized to specific gardens? specific homes?
• something that reacts to environmental conditions dynamically and directly - not digitally mediated
• flipping the garden to see its roots
• metaphor of soil for visual array of photos: speckled, textured

emotions / affective states

• ephemerality, time passing
• pleasure

questions to answer

• what can/should a prototype discover in a week?
• if a week is too short, what is the "right" deployment period?
• what do people want to take photos of? why? what would they do with them (gift, souvenir, planning for future)?
• where is the garden in the home? "nature"? where could it be?

proposed activities

• wizard-of-oz study where we act as the photographer and follow around a gardener for a week.
• home visits
  

goal: deployment completed in mid-Dec for paper in Jan