Whiteboard brainstorm

Hi all, thanks for a good session today. I attached the white board so you can see what we did. Please leave comments if i missed something or if you have something to add. Or just comment.

To recap a few of the highlights:

Motivation
We talked on how to motivate people to engage in our installation and based on the list in a previous post we quickly gathered on Contribution, both active and passive. The active route would be for people to give something to the entity in form of; A song, a name, a picture (of your face), a question, a video among others we discussed (Look at the first white board). The passive route would be monitoring activity, use of sensors to capture motion, sounds, etc. That can be fed into the entity again without action needed. Then when the uninterested or the ones without time see they as well affect the entity they might get more interested?

Identity
We did a complete round and discussion of what people felt the entity was like (Describe our (AHO)entity's personality). And our list grew quite long (see white board #2). A selection from the board:

Cold (Got a number of hits)
Frankenstein
Vain (Obsessed with image)
Like a factory (both visually and "personally")
Lacks personality
Isolated, unplugged
Ignorant
Transparent (The Glass walls)
Hard
Fragmented, but grouped (like a Zoo)
Mystical/Mythical
Moaning/Whining
Impersonal
Opaque (Mentally)
Secret
Bad communicator
Missed opportunities
A part of the family
Interesting
Proud
Lucky
Privileged

Phew, that was almost all. This looks rather negative, but we found a way of turning this into something positive. The above describes the personality of our entity, not the installation(s). So we turned the board again and looked at what we wanted to do.

Vision
Values
Positive
Attractive
Inspirational
Colourful
Engaging
Seductive
Magical
Lively

Mission
Increase awareness of yourself as a part of AHO

Vision
Fall in love with AHO

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